The GRE® Test is the world’s most widely used admissions test for graduate & professional school.
GRE® General Test
An admissions exam that measures the verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, critical thinking, and analytical writing skills of candidates applying to graduate and business schools. Institutions use scores, along with other measures, to identify the best candidates for their programs, and for placement, program evaluation and selection of fellowship recipients.
Test Content
The GRE General Test closely reflects the kind of thinking you’ll do in today's demanding graduate school programs, including business and law. It measures your verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, critical thinking and analytical writing skills — skills that have been developed over a long period of time and aren’t related to a specific field of study but are important for all.
Test Structure
The GRE General Test is composed of Analytical Writing, Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning sections.
Testing times are listed below.
- Analytical Writing: one section with two separately timed writing tasks—30 minutes per task
- Verbal Reasoning: two 30-minute sections— 20 questions per section
- Quantitative Reasoning: two 35-minute sections— 20 questions per section
In addition, an unidentified unscored section may be included and may appear in any order after the Analytical Writing section. It is not counted as part of your score. An identified research section that is not scored may be included in place of the unidentified, unscored section. The research section will always appear at the end of the test. For more information about the content of the GRE General Test, visit www.ets.org/gre/general/content.
Schedule Your GRE General Test
You can take the GRE General Test once every 21 days, up to five times within any continuous rolling 12-months period (365 days). This applies even if you canceled your scores on a test taken previously.
When selecting a test date, make sure your scores will be reported in time for your application deadlines. Score reports are sent to your designated score recipients approximately 10–15 days after your test date. When choosing a test date, allow time for delivery of scores and processing by the institution.
SCHEDULE THE TEST
Useful Links: Schedule the test
- Select the test – TOEFL iBT
- Location- North York , Canada
- Test Centre – GB Language Centre
- Select the available time in the next 60 days form the calendar
And schedule by creating/ signing the ETS account
Your ETS Account – https://ereg.ets.org/ereg/public/jump?_p=GRI
You can use your account to register for a test, as well as to:
- sign up for the free GRE Search Service
- purchase test preparation materials
- view, change or cancel your test registration
- apply for and view approved testing accommodations
- view your scores
- order Additional Score Reports
- access the free GRE Diagnostic Service
- choose to receive important notifications concerning your test and scores through text messages in addition to email
Identification Requirements for the GRE General Test
When you create your ETS account and register for your test, it’s important to make sure that the name you use exactly matches the name on the identification (ID) information you plan to use on the day of your test.
How to enter your name
- The first and last name you use when you register — and the spelling of that name — must exactly match (excluding accents) the name printed on the ID you’ll present on the day of your test. If it doesn’t, you may be prohibited from taking the test or your test scores may be canceled after you take the test.
- Provide your entire first (given) name (excluding accents). Don’t register under a nickname or with only an initial as your first name.
- Supply your entire last (family/surname) name. If you have a two-part first or last name, supply your complete last name as it appears on the ID (excluding accents) that you’ll present on the day of the test. For example, a last name of Fernandez de Córdova would be entered as Fernandez de Cordova.
- You have the option to include your middle initial, but it’s not a requirement.
- If you register by phone or mail, be sure you are registered under your entire first and last names as they appear on your ID (excluding accents).
Your ID requirements
Your ID requirements depend on where you plan to test and your country of citizenship, unless you’re testing at home. If testing at home, you’re required to present valid government-issued ID.
Please review the general ID requirements below, then select the country/location where you plan to test to see specific ID requirements.
General ID document requirements
With few exceptions, ID documents must meet all of the following requirements. Each ID document must:
- • be an original document; photocopied documents are not acceptable and documents cannot be presented on a cell phone or any other electronic device
- • be a physical ID; electronic ID issued to a mobile phone or any other electronic device is not acceptable
- • be a government-issued national/state/province identity card that is recognized by the country in which you are a citizen or permanent resident
- • bear your first and last name exactly (excluding accents) as it was when registering for the test
- • include a recent, recognizable photograph
- • include your signature (the name and signature on the ID document must match)
- • be valid; expired documents (bearing expiration dates that have passed) are not acceptable
As of January 1, 2022, ETS accepts expired IDs that are up to 90 days past the expiration date.
Getting Your GRE General Test Scores
What scores are reported?
Section |
Score Scale |
Verbal Reasoning |
130–170, in 1-point increments |
Quantitative Reasoning |
130–170, in 1-point increments |
Analytical Writing |
0–6, in half-point increments |
If no questions are answered for a specific measure (e.g., Verbal Reasoning), then you will receive a No Score (NS) for that measure.
When will I get my scores?
Your official GRE General Test scores will be available in your ETS account 10–15 days after your test date. You’ll receive an email from ETS when they are available.
ETS will also send an official Institution Score Report to the score recipients you designated on test day at that time.
See a sample Test-taker Score Report (PDF)
If you wish to have a paper copy, you can print one from your ETS account. It won't be sent to you by mail.
Understanding Your GRE General Test Scores
Verbal reasoning and quantitative reasoning measures
For the Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning measures of the GRE General Test, the reported scores are based on the number of correct responses to all the questions included in the operational sections of the measure.
The Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning measures are section-level adaptive. This means the computer selects the second operational section of a measure based on your performance on the first section. Within each section, all questions contribute equally to the final score.
For each of the two measures, a raw score is computed. The raw score is the number of questions you answered correctly.
The raw score is converted to a scaled score through a process known as equating. The equating process accounts for minor variations in difficulty among the different test editions as well as the differences in difficulty introduced by the section-level adaptation. Thus, a given scaled score for a particular measure reflects the same level of performance regardless of which second section was selected and when the test was taken.
Analytical writing measure
For the Analytical Writing section, each essay receives a score from at least one trained rater, using a 6-point holistic scale. In holistic scoring, raters are trained to assign scores on the basis of the overall quality of an essay in response to the assigned task. The essay is then scored by the e-rater® scoring engine, a computerized program developed by ETS that is capable of identifying essay features related to writing proficiency. If the human and the e-rater engine scores closely agree, the average of the two scores is used as the final score. If they disagree, a second human score is obtained, and the final score is the average of the two human scores.
The final scores on the two essays are then averaged and rounded to the nearest half-point interval on the 0–6 score scale. A single score is reported for the Analytical Writing measure. The primary emphasis in scoring the Analytical Writing section is on your critical thinking and analytical writing skills rather than on grammar and mechanics. Read the "Issue" and "Argument" scoring guides and the Analytical Writing Score Level Descriptions.
During the scoring process, your essay responses on the Analytical Writing section will be reviewed by trained analysts using ETS essay-similarity-detection software and by experienced essay raters.
For more information, see the section on Cancellation of Scores by ETS in the GRE® Information Bulletin (PDF).
Prepare to Take the GRE General Test with Confidence
Material / resources
https://www.ets.org/gre/test-takers/general-test/prepare.html?WT.ac=gre_prepare_170731
https://www.ets.org/gre/test-takers/general-test/prepare/test-prep-accessible-formats.html
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