The GRE General Test is designed to help graduate school admission committees and fellowship sponsors assess the qualifications of applicants to their programs. Prospective graduate applicants take the GRE Test and their scores are used by admissions or fellowship panels to supplement undergraduate records and other qualifications for graduate study. The scores provide common measure for comparing the qualifications of applicants and aid in evaluating grades and recommendations.
The GRE® General Test measures verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, critical thinking, and analytical writing skills that have been acquired over a long period of time and are not related to any specific field of study

Exam Structure

The computer-based GRE (GRE - CAT) is a 3 1/2-hour test consisting of three different sections, each with its own time-limit. It measures verbal, quantitative and analytical writing skills.

Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA) : 60 minutes
(Two essays to be composed on a given issue and a given argument)

Verbal Ability : 75 minutes
(37 multiple choice questions on Analogies, Antonyms, Sentence Completion and Reading Comprehension)

Quantitative Ability : 75 minutes (41 multiple choice questions of two types - Quantitative Comparison and Discrete Quantitative - on Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry and Data Interpretation