Monday, February 28, 2011

GRE Revised General Test - Major Changes - book from March 15 2011

ETS will be replacing the current GRE General Test with a revised edition starting from August 1 2011 (For which the registration will begin on March 15 2011).

Monetary Advantage :
Test takers taking their test between August 1 2001 and September 30 2001 will be eligible for a 50% discount on test fee.

Changes in User Interface:
1) Includes an Screen Calculator (for Quantitative Reasoning Section)
2) Test takers will be allowed to go back and edit answers (with in a given section)
3) Test takers can mark/tag questions so that they can be skipped and reviewed later
(Click here to download the latest FREE PowerPrep® Software provided by ETS, using which you can practice for the test and get hold of the new user interface)

GRE Revised General Test - Test Structure:

SECTION NUMBER OF QUESTIONS ALLOTTED TIME
Analytical Writing
(One section with two separately timed tasks)
One "Analyze an Issue" task and one "Analyze an Argument" task 30 minutes per task
Verbal Reasoning
(Two sections)
Approximately 20 questions per section 30 minutes per section
Quantitative Reasoning
(Two sections)
Approximately 20 questions per section 35 minutes per section
Unscored Varies Varies
Research†† Varies Varies

ETS has removed antonyms and analogies from verbal reasoning section and compensated it by adding more reading comprehension questions,new text completion questions and new sentence equivalence questions

Quantitative Reasoning section includes more data interpretation questions and new question types based on real life scenario.

Analytical Writing section has not changed much.

To know the test structure in detail and to get a glimpse of sample questions please visit
http://www.ets.org/gre/revised_general/about/content

Click here to download a Free GRE practice book (PDF) 

Books for GRE:
a) Normal/Regular GRE (before Aug 2011)
1) Barrons GRE - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0764142…
2) Princeton GRE - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375429…
3) Kaplan GRE - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1419549…
4) ETS GRE - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0886852…

b) Revised GRE test (On or after Aug 1 2011)
1) ETS revised GRE book - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071700…
2) Mc-Graw Hill GRE book - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071742…
3) Princeton GRE book - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375428…
4) Kaplan GRE - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1607148…

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2 comments:

  1. GRE Data Interpretation is very important for this exam so be attention about it.

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  2. Great that you shared the revised tests and books to be solved in scheduled timings. I am now confident enough to solve MBE Practice Questions in almost many of the sample tests and guide books. All thanks to online coaching classes of law suggested by my senior. Their practice sessions and mock tests conducted are superb. Even the doubt clearing sessions are praiseworthy.

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