The document provides an overview of the GRE exam, detailing its structure, including the general and subject tests, and outlining the syllabus for verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, and analytical writing. It also discusses test duration, preparation strategies, and differences between the GRE computer and paper exams. Ultimately, the blog aims to clarify key aspects of the GRE exam for prospective test takers.

1. GRE Exam
Syllabus

2. Table Of
Content
● What Is GRE?
● GRE Exam Syllabus
● GRE Test Duration
● Difference Between GRE Computer vs.
Paper Exam Pattern
● How To Prepare For GRE Exam
● Conclusion
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4. What Is GRE?
Let’s start with the first set of slides
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5. The Educational Testing Service, also known as ETS, created and conducts
the GRE General Test.
This is a standard exam that analyzes a student’s general academic ability
for graduate study.
There are mainly two types of GRE
□ GRE General test
□ GRE Subject test
GRE General test
The GRE General Test gives information about students’ reasoning,
critical thinking, and analytical writing abilities, helping selection
committees get a more detailed understanding of their abilities.
GRE Subject test
The GRE Subject Tests are academic tests that measure your level of
knowledge in a particular area of study. They are created for students who
have a strong base in one of the following fields from their undergraduate
studies:
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6. GRE Exam Syllabus
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7. According to the ETS, the GRE syllabus 2022 covers the three sections of
the exam.
□ Verbal Reasoning
□ Quantitative Reasoning
□ Analytical Writing
Let us discuss all three sections of the GRE exam to understand the GRE
exam syllabus 2022.
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8. This section helps to measure the student’s ability to analyze and find
conclusions from the question, reason from incomplete data, identify the
writer’s assumptions and perspective, select important points, understand
the structure of a text, differentiate minor and major points, understand
the meanings of words, summarize text, understand relationships among
words and concepts.
List of topics covered in verbal reasoning.
□ Basic Sentence structure: Nouns, Adjectives, Pronouns
□ Verb Tense
□ Idioms & Idiomatic Expressions
□ Pronoun Agreement
□ Subject-Verb Agreement
□ Modifiers
□ Parallelism
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Verbal
Reasoning

9. The quantitative reasoning section of the exam analyzes the test taker’s
ability to understand things, evaluating, and analyzing quantitative data,
as well as for using mathematical models to solve problems and apply
fundamental maths skills and concepts of arithmetic, algebra, geometry,
probability, and statistics.
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Quantitative
Reasoning
Ratio and proportion Profit and loss
Simple and compound interest Speed, distance and time
Permutation & combination Linear equations
Quadratic equations Set Theory
Statistics Powers and roots

10. This section measures the test taker’s ability to write or generate complex
ideas effectively and clearly. Also, it checks the test taker’s ability to write
relevant supporting ideas with relevant reasons and examples.
This includes two different time bounded analytical writing tasks of 30-
minutes each
□ Analyze an Issue
□ Analyze an Argument
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Analytical
Writing

11. GRE Test Duration
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GRE Section Name Number of Questions Duration
GRE verbal reasoning 40 (2 sections 20 questions in each section) 60 minutes (30 minutes for
each section)
GRE quantitative reasoning 2 (one Analyze an Issue and other Analyze an
Argument task)
70 minutes (35 minutes for
each section)
GRE analytical writing
assessment
40 (2 sections 20 questions in each section) 60 minutes (30 minutes for
each task)

13. How To Prepare For
GRE Exam
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14. Take a full-length practice test first to determine
how you will perform on the real test, which is
available online. This will help you to choose the
subjects you should focus on.
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Know
Your Base
Score

15. Mark your target universities and note down the
score you need to apply to each target university.
You’ll be able to achieve your goal and know
what it means if you do this.
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Set Your
Target
Score

16. Finding the ideal strategy to take you from your
starting score to the desired score will require
some analysis. Check out online reviews from
students who have cleared the GRE exam, then
do what best suits you.
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Plan Your
Ascend

17. You should be careful of your approach to each
question and have a result-oriented approach.
Learn your methods to resolve issues, then
attempt to improve them.
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Focus on
Technique

18. Always review your performance on practice
exams, looking for patterns in your mistakes and
questions you usually struggle with. You’ll know
how helpful that is.
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Review Your
Performance

19. Conclusion
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20. In this blog, we have discussed the GRE exam syllabus.
Along with that, we discussed what the GRE is, and different
sections of the GRE exam are also being discussed here.
Before ending the blog, we discussed the difference between the
GRE computer and the GRE paper exams.
Some tips to prepare for the GRE exam are also given at the end
of the blog.
We hope we have cleared all your queries about the GRE exam
syllabus.
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