GRE Verbal Section Old vs New Pattern

• Text completion Questions
  Sentence Equivalence Questions
  Reading Comprehension Questions.
  NO Antonyms
  NO Analogies

• Analogies
  Antonyms
  Sentence Completions
  Reading Comprehension

GRE Quantitative Reasoning Section Old vs New Pattern

• • Multiple Choice questions
  •  - Select One answer Choice
  •  - Select One or more answer choices
    
  • 
    Numeric Entry questions
    Quantitative comparison Questions

• Quantitative Comparison
  Problem Solving
  Data Interpretation

GRE Analytical Writing Section Old vs New Pattern

2 Questions or Tasks
  - One Analyze and issue task
  - One Analyze an Argument Task

2 Questions or Tasks
  - One Issue task - Choose from two
  - 1 Argument task- No choice.

30 Minutes per task
Total 60 minutes for two tasks or questions

45 minutes for Issue task
30 minutes for Argument task

An unidentified Unscored section is same in both old or current and the new GRE pattern. This section may be included or may not be, it depends…if included, it will not counted towards part of your score

An identified Research section is also the same case, it will be at the end of the test in both new and old/current GRE.

Earlier in GRE, you could not skip a question. In the New GRE, within a section, you can skip a question and go back to it later on.

In the old GRE, all the questions were objective multiple answer-choice questions and the student had to choose one correct answer. In the New GRE, there are fill-up-the-blank questions in the math section and in the multiple answer-choice questions, there will be more than one correct answer.

The Old GRE was completely computer adaptive, ie., each question had a different difficulty level that depended on whether you got the previous question right or wrong. The New GRE is section-adaptive,ie., within a section, all the questions are of equal difficulty level, and the difficulty level of a section depends on how much you scored in the previous section. (That's why, in the New GRE, within a section, you can skip a question and go back to it later on.)

In the Old GRE, you get the score on the day of the exam (AWA comes later). In the New GRE, the score will come atleast 2 weeks after taking the exam. So, now, you have to be more careful about the deadlines. It is advisable for students to take the exam atleast one month before the deadline of the university they are applying to.

Q1. What is the cost/registration fee for GRE?

Q2. How many times in a year is GRE exam held?

Q3. How many times can I take GRE?

Q4. What is the validity of the GRE exam?

Q5. What is the scoring pattern?

Q6. How soon do I get my score?

Q7. How are the scores in the Revised GRE comparable to the old GRE?

Q1. What is the cost/registration fee for GRE?

After administering the test and before getting the final scores, the test takers are asked to submit the names of 4 universities that they would like to send their scores to. This facility is part of the USD 190 fee that is charged for the test.

Ans. GRE is offered on all working days in India (ie, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday). The schedule can be obtained from Prometric in person, through phone, e-mail or online.

Ans. GRE can be taken unlimited number of times with a gap of a minimum of 31 calendar days between 2 tests. (It is highly advisable not to appear for GRE too many times as it may affect the applicant’s candidature). However, one can give the test only 5 times in a calendar year.

Ans. Your GRE score will be valid for 5 years after from the date the test was taken

Ans. Scoring is between 260 (Minimum) and 340 (Maximum) with 1-point increment. Three scores are reported on the General Test:

 - Verbal Reasoning score reported on a 130-170 score scale, in 1-point increments
 - Quantitative Reasoning score reported on a 130-170 score scale, in 1-point increments
 - Analytical Writing score reported on a 0-6 score scale, in half-point increments

Ans. It takes atleast 2 weeks for the score to come.

Ans. ETS has provided a comparison chart so that one can compare scores obtained in the old GRE with those obtained in the Revised GRE. You can access this comparison chart here: http://www.ets.org/s/gre/pdf/concordance_information.pdf