GRE General Test syllabus

Admission test for graduate and business schools: Analytical Writing, Verbal and Quantitative Reasoning in under two hours.

Analytical Writing

1 task: Analyze an Issue · 30 minutes

Always the first section.

  • Analyze an Issue: take and support a position on a given issue

Verbal Reasoning, section 1

12 questions · 18 minutes

Of average difficulty.

  • Reading Comprehension
  • Text Completion (one to three blanks)
  • Sentence Equivalence (two answers giving sentences alike in meaning)

Verbal Reasoning, section 2

15 questions · 23 minutes

Harder or easier depending on section 1.

  • Reading Comprehension
  • Text Completion
  • Sentence Equivalence

Quantitative Reasoning, section 1

12 questions · 21 minutes

An on-screen calculator is provided. Of average difficulty.

  • Quantitative Comparison
  • Multiple choice, one answer
  • Multiple choice, one or more answers
  • Numeric Entry
  • Data interpretation sets

Quantitative Reasoning, section 2

15 questions · 26 minutes

Harder or easier depending on section 1.

  • Quantitative Comparison
  • Multiple choice, one answer
  • Multiple choice, one or more answers
  • Numeric Entry
  • Data interpretation sets