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All you need to about GRE test sections:

Verbal Reasoning – The purpose of verbal reasoning section is to assess your comprehension of written material and ability to evaluate it. It also tests your ability to analyze sentence structure and relationship between words and concepts. It has three types of multiple choice questions: Reading Comprehension, Text Completion, and Sentence Equivalence.  The total score of verbal reasoning section ranges from 130 -170

Quantitative reasoning – It tests your problem solving skills on basic algebra, arithmetic, geometry and data analysis. The total score of Quantitative reasoning section ranges from 130 -170

Analytical Writing Ability – It assess students critical thinking and analytical writing skills, i.e. ability to articulate and support complex ideas clearly and effectively. The score for AWA is awarded on the scale of 0-6.

What Exactly GRE Tests

Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is a standardized exam scores accepted by all US universities to compare students applications on same scale. The GRE actually tests student basic Quant and vocabulary skills acquired over the high school and college years. Students from Engineering normally do very well in Quant section and fail to perform in Verbal section. Most of the Indian students lack basic vocabulary skills which can be only acquired by intensive training. The Analytical section tests student ability to analyze an argument or issue and present it logically. Students who gets 300+ in GRE helps to get into a decent university in US.

• One Analytical Writing section with two 30 minute tasks
• Two Verbal Reasoning sections (30 minutes each)
• Two Quantitative Reasoning sections (35 minutes each)
• One unscored section, typically a Verbal Reasoning or Quantitative Reasoning section
• An identified research section that is not scored may also be included