From GRE to graduate school: Understanding the test and how it will change
study abroad continues to be an exciting choice for students eager to broaden their horizons and enhance their career prospects. Yet, for lack of information or proper guidance, many of these students remain unaware of the expansive opportunities that preparation for a single examination can unveil – the GRE General Trest can indeed open doors to overseas education spanning numerous disciplines.
The GRE test is a comprehensive and multi-faceted examination that not only caters to students pursuing law, courses in STEM and other professional courses, but also courses in business and management.
Starting September 22, 2023, the GRE test will undergo several modifications. Among other changes, the test will notably see a reduction in the exam duration, making it a test of less than 2 hours total. This change makes the GRE the shortest exam for graduate, business, and law school admissions.
Additionally, the official results of the GRE test will be available to test takers even faster than before, just 8-10 days post-examination.
Each section of the modernized GRE test has also undergone change. The number of questions in the Quantitative and Verbal Reasoning sections have been reduced from 40 to 27 and the unscored sections of the test will also be phased out as of September 22. Further, the «Analyse an Argument» task in the Analytical Writing section has been eliminated and from now on the test will contain only one Analytical Writing essay, “Analyse an Issue.”
GMAT vs GRE: How to choose the right test for your study abroad journey
As per GRE snapshot report 2022, test test-takers in India grew from approximately 70,000 in 2020-21 to about 1.15 lacs in 2021-22, marking a staggering 63 per cent
