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How Cut Out Success?: Can You Tell Who's For Graduate School
How Cut Out Success?: Can You Tell Who's For Graduate School
How Cut Out Success?: Can You Tell Who's For Graduate School
The Revised
GRE General Test
®
Assess Ability.
Predict Performance.
The New Verbal The New Quantitative The New Critical Thinking and
Reasoning Measure Reasoning Measure Analytical Writing Measure
(two 40-minute sections) (two 40-minute sections) (two 30-minute sections)
• Measure of ability to analyze and evaluate • Measure of ability to reason quantitatively • A new name to more accurately
written material and synthesize information and solve problems in a quantitative setting reflect the skills being measured
obtained from it, analyze relationships among • Measure of basic mathematical skills and • A performance-based measure that
component parts of sentences, and recognize understanding of elementary mathematical integrates the assessment of critical
relationships between words and concepts concepts of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, thinking and analytical writing
in context probability and statistics
• Measure of ability to articulate
• Emphasis on skills related to graduate work • Quantitative reasoning skills that are similar complex ideas clearly and effectively,
such as complex reasoning to skills typically used in graduate school examine claims and accompanying
- Greater emphasis on higher cognitive - Proportion of questions involving evidence, support ideas with relevant
skills; less dependence on vocabulary real-life scenarios and data reasons and examples, sustain a
knowledge alone interpretation increased focused, coherent discussion, and
- More text-based materials, such as - Proportion of geometry questions control the elements of standard
reading passages decreased written English
- A broader selection of reading passages - On-screen, four-function calculator • New, more focused prompts will
• Expansion of computer-enabled tasks (e.g., with square root reduce the possibility of reliance on
highlighting a sentence in a passage that • Inclusion of question types other than memorized materials
serves the function described in the question) multiple-choice, including computer-enabled • Essay responses will be made
tasks such as entering a numeric answer via available to institutional score
the keyboard recipients
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