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GRE Syllabus 2022

GRE Exam 2022: Can be attempted any number of times with a gap of 21 days between each attempt with an annual upper bound of 5 times per year.

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GRE 2022 Syllabus

The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is an international standard test for graduate school entrance in the United States of America. Education Testing Services is in charge of conducting and organising the test (ETS). The test is available both offline and online; online exams are available at any time of year, but offline exams are only offered three times a year. The GRE scores are good for 5 years after you take the test. The test is designed to assess a candidate’s ability to think, write, and reason.

Syllabus

There are two types of GRE tests: the GRE General Test and the GRE Subject Test. Both of these tests have different syllabuses.

GRE General Test syllabus

Tests	Syllabus
Analytical writing	This section aims to assess candidates’ abilities to communicate difficult concepts clearly and effectively, to back up their ideas with relevant examples and reasoning, to analyse a situation with logic, and to keep a well-focused and coherent discussion while maintaining control over the standard elements in written English.
Verbal reasoning	The whole section is designed to assess candidates’ ability to analyse and draw conclusions from interactions, to reason from incomplete data, to identify a perspective, to distinguish major from minor points, to select essential points, to summarise, to comprehend the structure of any given text, and to comprehend the words, their meanings, and their relationships to the entire text. The following are the areas that are covered for the same: Nouns, pronouns, and other basic sentence construction Idioms, idiomatic phrases, verb, tenses Agreement on pronouns Agreement between the subject and the verb Modifiers parallelism
Quantitative reasoning	This portion assesses applicants’ abilities to grasp, interpret, and analyze quantitative data, solve problems using mathematical models, and use basic mathematic skills such as algebra, arithmetic, and geometry. The portions covered are: ratio and proportion profit and loss simple and compound interest distance, speed, time, work linear equations permutations and combinations sets quadratic equations statistics and probability powers and roots pipes and cisterns polygons (quads, triangles, etc.), circles lines and angles co-ordinate geometry order of operations volumes and surface areas percentages and other number properties

GRE Marking Scheme

On the GRE General Test Score-Card, three scores are reported: Verbal Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning, and Analytical Writing. Here’s how it went down.

Section	Min. Score	Max Score.	Increments (Inc. in marks per correct answer)
Verbal Reasoning	130	170	1-point increments
Quantitative Reasoning	130	170	1-point increments
Analytical Writing	0	6	1/2-point increments

Your total verbal and quantitative score is expressed as a number of 340. As a result, applicants may frequently indicate their score out of 340 while stating their score.
Analytical Writing receives a distinct grade out of six.