Domain

Explanation

GRE

• The Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) Program has served the need of the graduate community for a reliable assessment of the knowledge and abilities of applicants to graduate school for over fifty years.
• Test takers need to know what is in the tests, how to prepare for the tests, and tips for taking the tests so as to get the best possible results.
• Faculty and staff who use the scores to make decisions on graduate admissions and financial aid need to know about the distribution of test scores, the degree of error or uncertainty associated with a given score, as well as how test scores should be combined with other information to make the most effective possible decisions.

Overview

• Yahoo! Education Introduction to the GRE*

Introduction to the GRE*
Information provided by Kaplan Test Prep - Kaptest.com

The Graduate Record Examination General Test, or GRE*, is designed to test fundamental verbal, mathematical and writing skills that a student is expected to have assimilated in the course of his or her college education. The vast majority of graduate programs require that prospective students submit GRE* scores in order to be considered for admission.

The GRE* is been administered exclusively as a Computer Adaptive Test, or CAT. The GRE* is taken on computer at special testing centers located throughout the U.S. and around the world. The GRE* CAT consists of about 3 hours of multiple-choice testing.

Here's how the sections of the GRE* CAT break down.

• Verbal Section: 30 questions in 30 minutes
• Antonym Questions
• Analogy Questions
• Sentence Completion Questions
• Reading Comprehension Questions
• Quantitative (Math) Section: 28 questions in 45 minutes
• Quantitative Comparison Questions
• Problem Solving Questions
• Writing Assessments: 2 essays in 60 minutes
• Analysis of an Argument
• Analysis of an Issue

In addition, the GRE* includes one unscored experimental section. This section is used by the test maker to try out questions for future use. It could be a Verbal or Quantitative section. It will look exactly like a scored section of the same type, so on test day don't spend time trying to figure out which section is experimental.

Scoring
The GRE* score report will contain a scaled score within a range of 200-800 for the verbal and quantitative sections. In addition, you will receive a score on a scale of 0 to 6 for the writing section. All scaled scores will be accompanied by a corresponding percentile ranking. The percentile rankings allow schools to quickly judge your performance relative to other test takers.

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• Exercises

Tests

• General tests
• Subject tests
• Writing assessments
• Preparations

Scoring

The processes for calculating reported scores for adaptive tests and traditional paper-and-pencil tests are similar, in that the number of questions answered correctly is adjusted according to the difficulty level of the questions on the test form. Thus, the same number of correct responses on different test forms will not necessarily result in the same reported score.

In paper-and-pencil tests, the differences in difficulty among test forms are relatively small and are adjusted through a process known as score equating. The number of questions answered is also figured into the calculation of the reported score because it limits the number that can be answered correctly.

With adaptive testing, an examinee is administered a set of questions with a difficulty level that is specifically designed to match the examinee's ability level. The mathematical process for calculating a score in this situation incorporates the statistical properties of the questions, the examinee's performance on the questions, and the number of questions that

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