The GRE® General Test measures the Quantitative and Verbal skills
that a candidate has picked-up and refined during his school and college days.
The various college admission committees are of the opinion that a high GRE®
test score is a very good indicator of how successful a person could be at
graduate school. Hence, most admission committees, to assess the suitability of
a candidate for their graduation programmes use the GRE® General
Test.
What we refer to as the 'post graduate' level in India is called the 'graduate
school stage' by Americans.
Some points which you must know about the Computer Adaptive Test
1. In verbal section each question has five answer choices and you must select
one choice as your answer.
2. In the quantitative ability section each problem solving and data
interpretation question has five answer choices.
However, quantitative comparison questions have only 4 answer choices.
3. Only one question appears at a time. To move to the next question, you have
to mark an answer to the question that is currently on
your screen.
4. Once you have confirmed your answer to a question you can't go back to a
question and change your answer.
5. The questions are graded into 5 categories ranging from the easy to the hard
category.
6. More points are awarded for getting the harder questions right.
7. You are penalised for not completing the test. Hence, your score depends on
your accuracy, the difficulty level of the questions
and the number of questions you attempted. At the beginning of the
test, every candidate gets a question of average
difficulty level (level 2 or 3)
8. Questions in the verbal and the quantitative sections need not always be
administered in groups. For example, if the first
question that appears in the verbal section is an antonym, then you need not
necessarily get a series of questions on antonyms
alone. Two questions on antonyms may be followed by one
question on analogies, followed by one on sentence completion. In other words,
questions can appear in any particular order.
Similarly, in the quantitative section, one question on
problem solving may be followed by one question on
quantitative comparison. This may be followed by one
question on problem solving. Hence, the type of question that will come next
cannot be predicted.
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