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Most of the universities in the US will require you to take
the GRE®. You might also be required to take the TOEFL®,
although a few universities exempt you from this requirement,
if your education has been in English. If you intend to apply
to universities in the UK, Australia or New Zealand, you will
need to take the IELTS (you’ll not require the GRE®).
- It is a Computer Adaptive Test (CAT)
- It is conducted by the US-based Educational Testing Services
(ETS)
- The test consists of three sections:
- Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA)
- 2 essays
- Analysis of an Issue (45 mins.)
- Analysis of an Argument (30 mins.)
- Score range: 0 – 6
- Verbal section
- 30 questions in 30 mins.
- Score range: 200 – 800
- Analogies, Antonyms, Sentence Completion, Reading
Comprehension
- Quantitative section
- 28 questions in 45 mins.
- Score range: 200 – 800
- Quantitative Comparison, Discrete Math, Data
Interpretation
- Total score range for the test: 400 – 1600 (Verbal
+ Quantitative); 0 – 6 (AWA)
- The GRE® scores are technically valid for five years
- However, most of the top universities do not consider
scores more than two years old
- In India, the test is conducted in Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata,
Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Allahabad, Ahmedabad &
Trivandrum
- Being a CAT, it is conducted throughout the year, on
all weekdays
- You can register for the test online at www.gre.org
OR by post/ telephone/ fax to Prometric – Gurgaon
- The test fees are US$140 (from 1st July 2006, the test
fees will be US$160)
- This includes reporting your scores to 4 universities
of your choice, on the day of the test
- If you want to report your scores to additional universities
(or if you do not report your scores to any university on
your test day, and would like to do so later), the fee is
US$15 per university
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