Candidates who wish to continue graduate education in another country must first qualify for and pass the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE). To begin, candidates must have a solid knowledge of the most recent GRE syllabus. Candidates can use the most recent GRE Syllabus 2022 and the GRE Exam Pattern as they read. Can use our GRE Preparation guide or follow our GRE 4-week study plan to ace their next GRE exam. Continue reading to know more about the GRE Exam Syllabus

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GRE Test Formats

The GRE is segregated into two sections: the GRE General Test and the GRE Subject Test. Each person’s GRE curriculum is unique.

GRE General Test: GRE General Test is a standard examination that assesses students’ verbal, mathematical, and analytical writing abilities.

GRE Subject Test: The institution may require a GRE Subject Test for more specialised courses, as the GRE Subject Test concentrates on assessing the candidate’s proficiency in certain disciplines.

GRE Syllabus 2022

GRE Exam Syllabus: Here is the GRE Syllabus 2022, which includes the GRE writing, verbal, and quantitative sections:

Skills that are tested on the GRE are :

• Analytical Writing Evaluation (AWA)
• Quantitative Reasoning
• Verbal Reasoning 

GRE Syllabus: Analytical Writing (AWA) Section

GRE analytical writing section is designed to evaluate a test taker’s ability to express complex ideas clearly and effectively, to back up statements with relevant reasons and examples, to evaluate claims and supporting evidence, to maintain a well-focused, coherent discussion, and to control the elements of standard written English. The GRE Analytical Writing programme consists of two thirty-minute analytical writing problems:

• Analyze an Argument
• Analyze an Issue

GRE Syllabus 2022

The GRE Exam Syllabus 2022 emphasizes quantitative reasoning, verbal reasoning, and analytical writing assessment. The GRE Exam Syllabus 2022 quantitative reasoning section has algebra, calculus, geometry, data analysis, statistics, and arithmetic. The verbal reasoning section of GRE Exam Syllabus 2022 has questions about reading comprehension, sentence completion and sentence equivalence. Moreover, the third analytical writing assessment section focus on the applicant’s ability to understand the complex sentence, break the complex into simpler ideas, analyse arguments and write down the thoughts clearly and reasonably.

GRE Syllabus: Analytical Writing

The Analytic Writing Section of the GRE Syllabus focuses on questions about analysing an argument/issue and presenting thoughts. It has concepts that assess the applicant’s ability to understand the text, analyse it with examples and reasons, and coherent discussion. Moreover, the analytic writing section focuses on the analytical skills of the participant and how much they can go in-depth on a topic. In addition, it also assesses the applicant’s grammar, conjunction, punctuation and sentence forming skills.

GRE Syllabus: Quantitative Reasoning Section

GRE analytical writing section is designed to evaluate a test taker’s ability to express complex ideas clearly and effectively, to back up statements with relevant reasons and examples, to evaluate claims and supporting evidence, to maintain a well-focused, coherent discussion, and to control the elements of standard written English. The GRE Analytical Writing programme consists of two thirty-minute analytical writing problems:

Mentioned below are the list of topics covered in the GRE Quant Syllabus :

Linear equations

Sets Theory

Powers and roots

Pipes, cisterns, work, time

Triangles

Quadrilateral

Coordinate geometry

Volume and surface area

Number properties

Permutation & combination

Quadratic equations

Statistics

Probability

Lines and angles

Polygon

Circles

Order of operations

Percentage

GRE Syllabus: Verbal Reasoning

The Verbal reasoning section of the GRE Syllabus 2022 has questions about reasoning, analysis, drawing conclusions, and understanding the author’s perspective. The Verbal reasoning Section assesses the candidate’s ability to understand the text, summarize it, structure the test and understands the words and their meanings. Moreover, other concepts are analogy, grammar, Venn diagram, direction and adjectives. 

Some topics covered in the verbal reasoning section of GRE are as follow:

• Adjectives
• Conjunction
• Verbs & tenses
• Pronouns
• Modifiers
• Homophones
• Basic sentence structure
• Idioms

GRE Test Syllabus 2022

The GRE test Syllabus 2022 covers concepts from math, English, chemistry, physics, biology and Psychology. Moreover, GRE test Syllabus assesses the candidate’s analytical thinking, quantitative reasoning and verbal reasoning. The GRE test Syllabus 2022 also focuses on descriptive questions with MCQ.

GRE Math Syllabus

The GRE Math Syllabus consists of questions from topics like calculus, algebra, geometry, arithmetic and probability. Moreover, the GRE Math Syllabus has 66 questions from the undergraduate syllabus. In addition, calculus constitutes (50%), algebra (25%) and additional topics (25%) in the GRE Maths Syllabus 2022.

Some of the major topics for the maths syllabus are:

• Probability
• Triangles and Circles
• Ratio and Proportion
• Geometry
• Trigonometry
• Calculus
• Algebra
• Additional topics

GRE Physics Syllabus

The GRE Physics Syllabus has questions about thermodynamics, atomic physics, and quantum physics. Moreover, the GRE Physics Syllabus has questions based on graphs, flow charts, diagrams and experimental data. In addition, the GRE Physics Exam has 100 MCQ which, are categorized in various sets.

Some of the major topics in the GRE Physics Syllabus:

• Electromagnetism
•  Optics and wave phenomena
• Atomic physics
• Relativity
• Methods (lab and field)
• Quantum Physics
• Classical mechanics
• Thermodynamics

GRE Literature in English Syllabus

The GRE Literature in English Syllabus includes questions on passages, proses, drama, poetry, short story, essay, biography and understanding of the text. Moreover, the Literature in English Syllabus has factual (title, author, dates) and analytical questions (passage comprehension, meaning, and structure).

Some of the major points of the GRE Literature in English Syllabus are:

• Literary analysis
• identification
• Grammar
• theory of literary criticisms
• understanding cultural and historical contexts
• Verb & tenses

GRE Chemistry Syllabus

The GRE Chemistry Syllabus comprises physical, analytical, organic and inorganic chemistry. The questions in the GRE Chemistry syllabus are based on these four dimensions and their interrelations. Moreover, physical chemistry has a weightage of (30%), organic chemistry (30%), inorganic chemistry (25%), and analytical chemistry (15%) in the GRE Chemistry syllabus.

Some of the major points in the GRE Chemistry syllabus are:

• Classical experiments
• Atomic & molecular structure
• Thermodynamics
• Gibbs & Helmholtz energy
• solution dynamics
• environmental applications

GRE Biology Syllabus

The GRE Biology Syllabus comprises topics cellular molecular, organismal biology, environment, evolution and ecology. Moreover, the GRE Biology Syllabus has 188 multiple choice questions and has equally divided weightage for three branches.

Some of the major points of the GRE Biology Syllabus are:

• Cellular structure and function
• Receptor binding and enzyme activity
• fermentation
• photosynthesis
• cell cycle
• biological compounds
• genetics
• DNA repair and mutation
• plant structure

GRE Psychology Syllabus

The GRE Psychology Syllabus revolves around biological, cognitive, social, developmental, clinical psychology. Moreover, the GRE Psychology syllabus includes research methodology, data processing and statistics.

Some of the major points of the GRE Psychology Syllabus are:

• Attention
• Memory
• visual and speech perception
• Learning
• Decision-making
• Life span development
• attitude
• violence & aggression
• social facilitation & social loafing
• understanding psychological disorders

GRE Preparation

GRE Preparation should start 5-6 months before the exam date and be completed 90 days before the examination. The GRE Preparation must include gathering all the previous year question papers, making notes, and compiling all the resources. Moreover, the candidates can take practice tests and solve sample papers daily after the completion of the syllabus for the GRE Preparation. The best tip for GRE Preparation is to manage the time as per the syllabus. And, choose the centre and fill the form beforehand to avoid any discrepancy later.

GRE Test Pattern for Computer- delivered Test

The pattern for GRE Computer-delivered test has three sections of quantitative reasoning, verbal reasoning and analytical writing. Moreover, the quantitative section has further two sections of 40 questions, verbal reasoning has two sections of 40 questions and, analytical writing has 1 section with two tasks.

In addition, timings for all the sections of GRE Computer-delivered test range from 60-70 minutes.

GRE Sections	No. of sections	Duration
Quantitative Reasoning	2 sections	70 minutes
Verbal Reasoning	2 sections	60 minutes
Analytical Writing Assessment	1 section	60 minutes

GRE Test Pattern for Paper-Delivered Test

The pattern for GRE Paper-based test has three sections similar to the computer-based test. However, in the paper-based exam, the analytical writing section has two sections with two tasks, verbal reasoning has two sections with 50 questions, and quantitative reasoning has two sections with 50 questions.

In addition, the timings for all the sections of the GRE Paper-delivered test range from 60-80 minutes.

GRE Section	No. of sections	Duration
Quantitative Reasoning	2 sections	80 minutes
Verbal Reasoning	2 sections	70 minutes
Analytical Writing Assessment	2 sections	60 minutes

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