GRE Exam Syllabus
GRE Syllabus
Here’s an overview of what the GRE syllabus covers:
GRE General Test Syllabus
- Analytical Writing
- Verbal Reasoning
- Quantitative Reasoning
1.GRE Analytical Writing Syllabus
The GRE Analytical Writing section aims to evaluate a candidate’s ability to think critically and logically, demonstrating relevant and rational reasoning with instances.
The idea of the analytical section is to express your arguments and discussions from an analytical point of view using standard and correct usage of English vocabulary. This section involves answering two task questions on
- Issue Task: a candidate is given 30 mins to write an essay on a particular topic.
- Argument Task: the test taker is given an argument and asked to critically analyze the argument through an essay within a time frame of 30 mins.
2.GRE Verbal Reasoning Syllabus
The Verbal Reasoning section is designed to measure a candidate’s ability to analyze written material and form relationships among sentences with words and concepts. This section assesses the candidate’s knowledge and identification of the author’s perception, relevant points, word meanings, etc.
This section involves:
- 4 Sentence Equivalence Questions
- 6 Text Completion Questions
- 10 Reading Comprehension Questions
- 20 Total Questions per Section
The curriculum includes:
- Verb Tense
- Sentence Structure- Noun, Pronoun, Adjective
- Idioms
- Modifiers
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- Parallelism
3.GRE Quantitative Reasoning Syllabus
The GRE Quant Section evaluates your basic quantitative skills and your ability to interpret and analyze quantitative information and solve mathematical problems. The question types are as follows:
- Quantitative Comparison: Quantitative comparison includes questions that require you to compare two quantities and identify their relationship.
- Problem Solving: the questions involve multiple-choice questions, and data interpretation
List of topics includes
- Ratio and proportion
- Profit and loss
- Simple and compound interest
- Speed, distance, and time
- Permutation & combination
- Linear equations
- Sets Theory
- Statistics
- Powers and roots
- Probability
- Pipes, cisterns, work, time
- Lines and angles
- Triangles
- Polygon
- Quadrilateral
- Circles
- Coordinate geometry
- Order of operations
- Volume and surface area
- Percentage
- Number properties
- Quadratic equations
GRE Subject Test Syllabus
- GRE Math – includes 66 multiple choice questions from algebra, calculus, and other related topics
- GRE Physics- includes 100 five-choice questions based on graphs, diagrams, atomic physics, electromagnetism, mechanics, quantum mechanics, laboratory methods and specialized topics.
- GRE Chemistry- includes 130 multiple choice questions based on analytical, organic, inorganic, and physical chemistry.
- GRE Psychology- consists of 205 multiple-choice questions based on biological, developmental, cognitive, social, and clinical studies.