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Graduate Record Examination: Revised General Test
Acronym
GRE

Type
Computer-based or paper-based standardized test

Developer / administrator
Educational Testing Service
Knowledge / skills tested
Analytical writing, quantitative reasoning, verbal reasoning

Purpose
Admissions to masters and doctoral degree programs in various universities

Year started
1949

Duration
About 3 hours and 45 minutes (includes 1-minute breaks after each section and a 10-minute break after third section).

Score / grade range
Analytical writing: 0.0 to 6.0 (in 0.5 point increments),

Verbal reasoning:
130 to 170 (in 1 point increments),

Quantitative reasoning:
130 to 170 (in 1 point increments)
Score / grade validity 5 years

Offered
Computer-based test: Multiple times a year (depends on availability of the test center).
Paper-based test: Up to 3 times a year in October, November and February.[1]
Restrictions on attempts
Computer-based test:
Can be taken only once after 21 days from the day of exam in every year. (Applies even if applicants cancels scores on a test taken previously)

Paper-based test: Can be taken as often as it is offered.

Countries / regions
About 700 test centers in more than 160 countries.
(Paper-based test offered only in areas where computer-based testing is not available.)

Languages
English
Annual no. of test takers
Over 655,000 in 2012[4]
Prerequisites / eligibility criteria
No official prerequisite. Intended for bachelors degree graduates and undergraduate students who are about to graduate. Fluency in English assumed.

Fee
US$ 195[5]
(Limited offers of "Fee Reduction Program" for U.S. citizens or resident aliens who demonstrate financial need, and for national programs in USA that work with underrepresented groups.)

Scores / grades used by
Most graduate schools in USA, and some in other countries.