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The analytical writing section evaluates students’ skills to present complex ideas in a clear and effective way. It also tests whether or not students can support those ideas with relevant reasons and examples, and can have a coherent and well-focused discussion. It is recommended that students find out from the college they are applying to how strong is the AWA section considered by their admission board. The scores for the Analytical Writing section are not part of the total GRE score and are graded on a separate scale out of 6.

The verbal reasoning section evaluates students’ skills to examine and derive conclusions, identify information in it, scrutinize relationships among parts of sentences, and identify relationships among words and concepts. GRE Verbal Reasoning consists of three separate areas of skill-testing: Text Completion, Sentence Equivalence, and Reading Comprehension.

Topics covered under the verbal section:

• Basic sentence structure: nouns, pronouns, adjectives
• Verb tense
• Idioms & idiomatic expressions
• Pronoun agreement
• Subject-verb agreement
• Modifiers
• Parallelism

GRE quantitative reasoning section, also known as GRE Quant, seeks to evaluate students’ skills to comprehend quantitative information and analyze and interpret quantitative information. It tests the taker’s competency in four areas i.e., Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, and Data Analysis.

Topics covered under the Quant section:

• Arithmetic
• Divisibility, prime numbers, factorization, even & odd integers, remainders
• Percent, estimation, ratio, absolute value, decimal representation, number line sequences of numbers
• Arithmetic operations, roots, and exponents
• Algebra
• Quadratic and linear equations and inequalities
• Simultaneous inequalities and equations
• Simplification & factorization of algebraic expressions
• Functions, equations, relations, and inequalities
• Forming equations to get answers to word problems
• Coordinate geometry, graphs related to functions and equations
• Geometry
• Quadrilaterals, perpendicular & parallel lines, circles and triangles
• Polygons and congruent Figures
• 3-D figures, area, volume, perimeter
• Pythagorean theorem
• Measurement of angle in degrees
• Data Analysis
• Statistics
• Interpreting data in tables & graphs
• Frequency distributions & scatterplots
• Elementary probability
• Conditional probability
• Probability distributions and random variables and counting methods
• Combinations, venn diagrams, permutations