GRE is an entrance examination for graduate students, which is suitable for graduate students in various disciplines and majors except law (LSAT) and business (GMAT). There are two kinds of GRE exams, one is the general GRE exam (GRE
General), this is the GRE exam that most China students take. The other is a special GRE test (GRE
Topic). There are not many candidates from China who take the GRE special exam, because most American colleges and universities do not require GRE special scores, but only general GRE scores. However, applicants who apply for a postgraduate major that is inconsistent with the applicant's undergraduate major need to provide special GRE scores. For example, A Jun obtained a bachelor's degree in physics from a domestic university, hoping to go to the United States to study for a master's degree in economics.
Art is
Economics), then you need to provide GRE economic special exam results. If you want to transfer to a master's degree in biochemistry, you need to provide GRE biochemical special scores. If the undergraduate major is the same as the postgraduate major, there is generally no need to provide special grades.
Some famous American universities regard GRE scores as "recommended scores": I hope that applicants can provide this score, regardless of whether their undergraduate majors are the same as their own graduate majors, but this is not a necessary condition. At this time, if you can provide special GRE scores, it is very beneficial to apply for scholarships. Therefore, if the applicant has enough time, he might as well take a special exam. An excellent GRE score can reflect the applicant's professional quality and learning potential. The GRE general exam is a necessary exam for applying for postgraduate entrance, and LSAT or GMAT is used to replace the GRE general exam for applying for graduate students in law or business. Now American universities don't have as high a demand for the sense of substitution of grades as before. Many schools can provide any scores of GRE or GMAT as the scores that business graduate students should provide, and law graduate students also use GRE scores instead of LSAT scores.
The GRE exam lasts for three hours and consists of six parts, all of which are multiple-choice questions, and the method of deducting points for wrong answers is not implemented. The content of the six-part exam consists of two parts, namely, the language item (spoken English), two parts, the mathematics item (quantitative) and two parts, namely, the analysis item (analysis), with full marks of 800 for each item and 2400 for three items.
Chinese item time 1 hour, including four questions: ① completing sentences; ② analogy; ③ Reading comprehension; 4 antonyms; Among them, complete sentences, analogy and antonyms are all understanding of vocabulary; Reading comprehension is the examinee's understanding of the logical structure and theme of the article; Articles can cover any scientific field, but most of them are about biochemistry, astronomy, literature, geography and history. The Chinese item is mainly to test the breadth and depth of vocabulary understanding of candidates, so China students scored very low in this respect, but it did not have a great impact on applying for scholarships, because ETS clearly explained the GRE score: "GRE is aimed at candidates whose mother tongue is English, and candidates whose mother tongue is not English will be affected, because their vocabulary is not as good as that of candidates whose mother tongue is English. When reviewing applicants' GRE scores, we should take the auditor's experience as the standard, and should not adopt uniform and strict minimum admission standards. There is also a TOEFL that tests English language ability. "
Therefore, although China students' Chinese scores are very low, they still have a good chance to get a scholarship because their TOEFL scores exceed 550 (American universities think that a TOEFL score of 550 proves that candidates have high English understanding and application ability, and that candidates can fully adapt to English teaching in the United States, while the average score of high school graduates who take TOEFL in the United States is only 580).
Math hour includes three types of questions: ① comparison of numbers; ② Separation of numbers; (3) illustrations, involving basic problems of arithmetic, algebra and geometry. These questions are only used in senior one in China, and the questions are relatively easy. Therefore, most candidates in China can get high marks in mathematics, and quite a few of them got full marks of 800.
It takes one hour to analyze the project, including two kinds: ① analytical reasoning and ② logical reasoning.