“INTRODUCTION
TO GRE (GRADUATE RECORD EXAMINATIONS)”
‘GRE or Graduate
Record Examinations’ is a test conducted by the ‘Education Testing Service
(ETS)’ in all of the major English languaged countries basically designed for
the admissions in business programs. GRE being a computer based system (online
test), also recognized by the ‘Triple Nine Society’ is recounted as one of the
analytical means for the admission in many of the finest business schools in
the United States.
GRE basically
evaluates a person’s potential by testing his following skills (which are
irrespective to any of his area of previous studies)
·
Verbal Reasoning
·
Analytical Writing
·
Quantitative Reasoning
·
Critical Thinking
As per the new
pattern of GRE introduced in 2011, the students appearing for the examination
will be marked as per their performance in six different sections with the
following contents-
·
Analytical writing section, containing 2 essays. The one of the two essays are likely to be on
‘issue task’ (the examinee is to write an essay on a topic that is to be chosen
from a given set of topics), the other one being on ‘argument task’ (the
examinee expected to complete an essay that critiques an argument, not
introducing any personal ideas, they should suggest logics to support the
argument, it being chosen from a list of arguments).
·
2 Verbal sections, containing 20 questions. It solely contains questions of sentence
completion (6), sentence equivalence (4), and critical reading comprehension
(10).
·
2 Sections of Quantitative reasoning, having 20 questions each which are as follows; 3 data interpretation
questions, 9 questions to test problem solving ability of the candidates and 8
questions designed on quantitative comparison.
·
1 Experimental section that is not to be scored, and can be similarised to any of the
above mentioned sections.
The
entire testing process requires about 3hrs and 45minutes, with the perfect
score being 170, and 130 being the lowest. Many of the Universities and
institutes count GRE and GMAT in their admission and allotment criterion.
Scores as old as 5 years are counted at many of the institutes. Amongst many of
the institutes offering admission through the GRE score are Harvard Business
School, NYU-Stern, UVA-Darden, MIT-Sloan, Stanford GBS, Columbia Business
School, Ohio State-Fisher etc..
Preparation material
for the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is provided by the ETS on getting
registered, which basically contains guiding software called ‘PowerPrep’
containing two practice tests of older questions, newer review material and
practice questions. However it is claimed that the pattern of the Graduate
Record Examination (GRE) has been difficult to track and follow.
