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GRE vs No-GRE: Test-Optional Grad Programs
More graduate programs now let you skip submitting a GRE score, but optional does not mean the score is worthless. Submit a strong...
Aug 06, 2026
GRE for CS and Engineering Programs
ETS reports a mean Quantitative Reasoning score of 161 for test takers naming Computer Science as their intended major, with a Ver...
Aug 05, 2026
GRE for MBA Admissions
Most business schools now accept the GRE instead of requiring the GMAT. ETS reports 92 percent of business schools accept GRE scor...
Aug 05, 2026
GRE Reading Comprehension: Supporting Detail and Structure
Supporting-detail questions ask you to confirm one fact the passage states directly. Sentence-function questions ask why a sentenc...
Aug 04, 2026
GRE Reading Comprehension: Inference and Critical Reasoning
GRE Reading Comprehension tests two reasoning skills beyond plain reading: inference, naming a conclusion the passage implies with...
Aug 04, 2026
GRE Reading Comprehension: Main Idea and Author's Tone
Main idea and author's tone questions ask what a GRE Reading Comprehension passage is doing as a whole, not what one sentence says...
Aug 03, 2026
GRE Sentence Equivalence Questions
GRE Sentence Equivalence gives you one sentence with a single blank and six answer choices. You select exactly two. Both selection...
Aug 03, 2026
GRE Text Completion Questions
GRE Text Completion gives you a passage of one to five sentences with one to three blanks per sentence. A one-blank item offers fi...
Aug 02, 2026
GRE Data Analysis: Statistics, Probability and Interpretation
GRE Data Analysis is one of four Quantitative Reasoning content areas ETS tests, alongside Arithmetic, Algebra and Geometry. It co...
Aug 01, 2026
GRE Solids and Volume
GRE Geometry's Math Review works through volume and surface area formulas for two solids only: rectangular solids and right circul...
Jul 31, 2026
GRE Circles, Quadrilaterals and Polygons
GRE Geometry covers circles, quadrilaterals and polygons in one content area with a short list of fixed formulas. A circle's area...
Jul 31, 2026
GRE Coordinate Geometry, Lines, Angles and Triangles
ETS files coordinate geometry under GRE Algebra and files lines, angles and triangles under GRE Geometry. Slope equals rise over r...
Jul 30, 2026