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GRE General Test

A route through the GRE General Test: the current format, schools and a target score, booking, verbal, quant and essay skills, timed practice tests, test day, ScoreSelect and the retake decision.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for GRE General Test, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

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🎓 Finance & Business Certifications

GRE General Test

Preparing for the GRE General Test for business or graduate school: verbal, quantitative and analytical writing, vocabulary work, practice tests and sending scores.

  1. Current GRE format and policy check
  2. Confirming which programmes accept the GRE
  3. Setting a target GRE score by programme
  4. Cold diagnostic with an official practice test
  5. Choosing GRE prep materials and a question bank
  6. GRE study calendar counted back from the deadline
  7. Booking your GRE test date and format
  8. ETS account name and ID match
  9. At-home GRE equipment and room check
  10. Weekly GRE study blocks around work or classes
  11. Daily GRE vocabulary review in context
  12. GRE error log by question type
  13. GRE score log for practice sets and tests
  14. Daily quant problem set
  15. Weekly timed GRE section
  16. Weekly dense-prose reading habit
  17. Monthly GRE calendar check against the test date
  18. Weekly Issue essay practice
  19. Text Completion method with clues and pivot words
  20. Sentence Equivalence pairs and the synonym trap
  21. Reading Comprehension passage mapping
  22. Quantitative Comparison strategies
  23. Arithmetic, number properties and algebra rebuild
  24. Geometry and coordinate geometry formula base
  25. Data interpretation and the on-screen calculator
  26. Word problems on rates, ratios and percentages
  27. Statistics, probability and counting
  28. Analyze an Issue essay structure and timing
  29. Section-level adaptive pacing strategy
  30. Switching to practice-first study at the halfway point
  31. Two-week repair sprint on the weakest question type
  32. Deciding whether to move your GRE date
  33. Deciding whether a GRE tutor or class is worth it
  34. Comparing your GRE scores with business school class profiles
  35. Building test-day stamina and a calm routine
  36. Three full timed GRE practice tests
  37. Final three weeks of GRE review
  38. GRE test day checklist
  39. ScoreSelect and sending GRE scores
  40. Official GRE scores and the retake decision
  41. Studying for the GRE alongside a full-time job
  42. GRE verbal plan for non-native English speakers
  43. Returning to maths after years away
  44. Sitting the GRE from the Caribbean
  45. GRE retake plan after a disappointing score
  46. Requesting GRE testing accommodations
  47. Pushing Quant toward the top of the scale
  48. Pushing Verbal into the 160s and above
  49. Building your own hard GRE question set
  50. Coaching a newer GRE candidate

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Current GRE format and policy check

The GRE General Test was shortened in 2023, and prep books, forum threads and friends who sat it earlier still describe sections, timings and essay tasks that no longer exist. Saving the current structure, scoring scales, retake rules and score validity from the ETS website, with the date you checked, gives every later decision an official source instead of a memory.

First tasks

  • Open the GRE General Test page on the ETS website and note the current structure
  • Write the score scale for each section in ETS's wording
  • Note the retake rules and how long scores remain reportable
  • Recheck the ETS GRE pages for format, fee and policy changes @recurring(quarterly)

Confirming which programmes accept the GRE

Most business schools and many finance master's programmes now accept the GRE alongside the GMAT, but a few still prefer one test, some departments waive testing, and some scholarship committees look only at certain scores. Checking each programme on your list before you study protects you from preparing for the wrong exam or for one you did not need.

First tasks

  • List the programmes you expect to apply to in one table
  • Check each programme's admissions page for accepted tests and waivers
  • Find each programme's institution code in the ETS score recipient search
  • Email the admissions office of any programme whose test policy is unclear

Setting a target GRE score by programme

A vague aim of doing well leads to studying until you run out of time, while a target taken from each programme's published class profile tells you when you are ready. Business and finance programmes often care more about the Quantitative score than the total, so setting separate Verbal and Quant targets matters more than one combined number.

First tasks

  • Find the latest class profile for your two most competitive programmes
  • Note the GRE median or range each programme publishes
  • Set separate Verbal, Quant and Writing targets and a retake floor
  • Write the targets at the top of your score log

Make it yours.

Install GRE General Test, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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