revised gre 2.0

7/31/2019 Revised GRE 2.0

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Revised GRE what you need to know.


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Verbal Section

Current GRE Revised GRE

Reading Comprehension Reading Comprehension

Analogy -

Antonyms -

Sentence Completion Text Completion

Sentence Equivalence

Analytical Writing Ability (AWA) Analytical Writing Ability (AWA)


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If you have been preparing for the Verbal Section

of the GRE for the old pattern, the following slides

tell you the skills that will be useful for the new

GRE as well.


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VocabularyYou need to know as many words as were needed for the old

GRE pattern. But there is a small difference.

We believe this will lighten the burden of vocabulary

development to some extent.

You need to know as many words as were needed for the old

GRE pattern. But there is a small difference.In the old pattern, the wordswould appear in isolation (as in

Antonym and Analogy) and notin context (of a sentence)

In the revised GRE, the words willalways appear in context (as insentence completion, textcompletion, sentence equivalence).This makes things a bit easy for you. You might able to identifywords from clues in the sentence.

The old GRE required you tohave a great depth of

knowledge of the words(especially for the Analogy kindof questions).

You do not need to have a verydeep understanding of the words. It

is sufficient if you are able tounderstand the word correctly inthe context of a sentence.


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Reading ComprehensionThe nature of Reading Comprehension remains the same. Allthe reading comprehension skills that you developed for theold GRE pattern will be relevant for the revised GRE as well.

These include: Ability to read a passage in a short time Comfort with a variety of topics (literature, history,

humanities, bio-sciences, physical sciences) Ability to identify and pick factual information from the

passage Ability to correctly sense implicit information (tone of the

passage, attitude, author's purpose etc)


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Verbal ReasoningVerbal reasoning skills are as relevant to the revised patternas it was to the old pattern.

Skills required for the revised pattern are: Ability to understand sentence structures. Ability to understand differentiate between sentences with

subtle difference.

Since there are no Analogy and Antonym type questions,there is not so much need on the ability to differentiatebetween words with very similar definitions.


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Analytical Writing

The nature of Analytical Writing remains the same. All thereading comprehension skills that you developed for the oldGRE pattern will be relevant for the revised GRE as well.

These include: Ability to formulate thoughts on a topic (or an issue) and

express them clearly through a good flow and examples. Ability to develop a sound argument and present it in a

written form. Ability to create simple but effective statements and

paragraphs.


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Time Management

Time Management is a skill which is relevant for any aptitudetest.

This is developed through conscious practice.

You will need to to practice a number of mock tests in therevised style to develop this skill.


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Quantitative Section of the Revised GRE


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Quantitative Section

Current GRE Revised GRE

Data Interpretation Data Interpretation

Quantitative Comparison Quantitative Comparison

Problem Solving Problem Solving

Multiple choice questions where you needto pick one or more choices

Numeric Entry Questions (where you haveto enter your answer instead of selectingfrom a set of choices)


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If you have been preparing for the Quantitativesection of the GRE for the old pattern, thefollowing slides tell you the skills that will beuseful for the new GRE as well.


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Maths Topics

The questions of the revised GRE will be basedon the same topics on which the old GRE wasbased on.

There are a few additional topics1. Probability Distribution Function ( Random Variables,

Probability Distributions that includes Normal Distribution)

2. Coordinate Geometry(graphs of a functions, linear and quadratic.)

3. In Data interpretation: Scatter plots , frequency distributions are included

4. In Statistics; percentiles, quartiles, inter-quartile range


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Difficulty level of the Questions

Based on the sample questions and bookspublished by ETS, we feel that the difficultylevel of the questions in the Quantitative sectionis same as that in the old pattern.

The revised pattern allows use of a calculator.This makes it easy since in past there was apossibility of getting a question incorrect due tocalculation error, even if the problem solvingapproach was correct.


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Problem solving skills More or less similar level of problem solving skills and

understanding of Mathematical Concepts in required for therevised pattern.

If you have been practicing Quantitative problem solving in the

old pattern, all your problem solving skills will be useful for therevised pattern. By Problem Solving skill, we imply:

Ability to understand and interpret the question correctly

Ability to capture the information in the form of mathematicalequations Ability to identify the right concepts, properties or formulas to be

applied for solving the question Ability to solve the equations to arrive at the final answer.


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Time Management

Time Management is a skill which is relevant for any aptitudetest.

This is developed through conscious practice.

You will need to to practice

a number of questions on each topic of mathematics questions of different difficulty levels A number of mock tests in the revised style to develop

this skill.


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Scoring for the revised GRE


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Scoring for the revised GRE

Sections in the testSection Number of Questions Time

Analytical WritingOne "Analyze an Issue" taskOne "Analyze an Argument" task

30 minutes per task

Verbal Reasoning

(2 sections)

Approximately 20 questions per

section

30 minutes per

section

Quantitative Reasoning(2 sections)

Approximately 20 questions per section

35 minutes per section

Unscored * Varies Varies

Research * Varies Varies

Total testing time is approximately 3 hours and 45 minutes,

including the non-scored section.


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In the revised version of the GRE, each section(Verbal and Quantitative) will be scoredindependently between 130 to 170 (instead of 200

800 in the old format) The score will increment in steps of 1 (130, 131,

132 ) Sufficient information is not available at this

point on how to relate the old style score andthe new one.


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Structure of the Adaptive Test

There will be 2 sections for Verbal and 2 Sections for the Quantitative part

Each section will contain 20 questions

In the old pattern, you are presented with one questionat a time. You can not move to the next questionwithout solving the current one.

In the new pattern, you can move over to the next

question, revisit previous question and mark aquestion for review.

You could thus solve the questions that you are confidentabout and then revisit questions that you found difficult.


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Questions ???

If you have further questions, talk to your SFA Or send a email to [email protected]

with the subject line 'revised GRE' Visit the GREedge forum. We have created a

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