Meaning:
The Chinese full name of the postgraduate entrance examination is the American postgraduate entrance examination, which is applicable to all majors except law and business.
Examination form:
Language (vocabulary) and quantity (mathematics) are written tests.
Analytical writing is a computer test.
Basic overview:
GRE is sponsored by educational testing service (ETS). 1937 was first jointly organized by Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Princeton University. Initially undertaken by Carnegie Foundation, 1948 was handed over to the newly established education examination center ETS. Since then, it has been held in many parts of the world every year. China Foreign Examination Coordination Office is responsible for the centralized management and undertaking of foreign examinations such as GRE in China.
GRE is an examination result required by graduate schools of American and Canadian universities (except management schools and law schools), and it is also the most important criterion for professors to award scholarships to applicants.
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. GRE unified examination is a necessary examination for applying for postgraduate entrance examination. For graduate students applying for law or business, LSAT or GMAT is used to replace the GRE general exam. 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. [Edit this paragraph] GRE exam registration process
Preparation before registration: read the registration process and prepare the computer to complete online registration.
Registered users: If candidates have never used the GRE registration system, they must register as users first.
Fill in the registration form: select "new exam appointment", agree with the contents of "important statement", and then fill in the registration form for exam appointment.
Payment: Click the corresponding payment method in "Select the payment method of examination fee". At present, there are two payment methods: online payment and electronic remittance.
GRE registration process
1. Download and read the GRE information bulletin and supplementary materials.
2. Book exam positions online
3. Pay the examination fee online or offline (online real-time payment uses the online payment platforms of ICBC and China Merchants Bank; Offline payment can be made in branches, savings offices and sub-branches of ICBC all over the country. The examination fee is 65438 yuan+0,465438 yuan +08 yuan. (Online payment of examination fee plus handling fee is 6 yuan, and offline bank payment of examination fee plus handling fee is 6 yuan.
4. Candidates should fill in the registration form at the registration site within the specified date (from September 24 to 26, 2002, they must bring the valid identity documents used when making an appointment for the examination position).
5. Candidates should go to get the admission ticket according to the date specified in the registration point (they must bring a 2-inch bareheaded recent photo and valid identity documents). [Edit this paragraph] Exam type:
There are two GRE exams:
One is the General test or Aptitude Test.
The second is professional testing or advanced testing.
GRE also has a writing test, that is, the writing test (computer test), which is now a compulsory test.
General test
The GRE general test mainly examines candidates' basic English ability and the breadth and depth of English knowledge. Most China students take this exam. The written test, including oral test and quantitative test, is 800, out of * * * 1600, and the result is valid for 5 years.
The GRE exam lasts for three hours and consists of four parts, all of which are multiple-choice questions, and the method of deducting points for wrong answers is not implemented. Two parts of the four-part exam content belong to vocabulary items (oral) and two parts belong to mathematics items (quantitative).
The vocabulary item takes 1 hour, including four questions: ① completing the sentence; 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 involve any scientific field, but most of them are biochemistry, astronomy, literature, geography and history. The vocabulary item is mainly to test the breadth and depth of vocabulary understanding of candidates, so China students get a low score in this respect, but it has no great influence on applying for scholarships, because ETS has a clear explanation on GRE score: "GRE is set for 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.
Subject test
There are not many candidates from China who take the GRE special exam, because most American universities do not require GRE special scores, but only ordinary 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, Mr. A has obtained a bachelor's degree in physics from a domestic university, and wants to go to the United States to study for a master's degree in economics. He needs to provide the GRE test results in economics. If he wants to study for a master's degree in biochemistry, he needs to provide GRE biochemistry scores. If the undergraduate major is the same as the postgraduate major, there is generally no need to provide special grades.
GRE subjects include seven exams: mathematics, chemistry, biology, physics, biochemistry, computer, psychology and English literature.