Amity Institute for Competitive Examinations

GRE EXAM
The GRE® General Test gives you more opportunities for success in your academic and professional areas.

The GRE General Test features question types that closely reflect the kind of thinking you'll do in graduate or business school.
- Verbal Reasoning Measures your ability to analyze and evaluate written material and synthesize information obtained from it, analyze relationships among component parts of sentences and recognize relationships among words and concepts.
- Quantitative Reasoning Measures problem-solving ability using basic concepts of arithmetic, algebra, geometry and data analysis.
- Analytical Writing Measures critical thinking and analytical writing skills, specifically your ability to articulate and support complex ideas clearly and effectively.

EXAM PATTERN

Computer-delivered GRE General Test Content and Structure: The overall testing time for the computer- delivered GRE® General Test is about 3hours and 45 minutes. There are six sections with a 10-minute break following the third section. The GRE® General Test is the only graduate-level admissions test that lets you skip questions and go back, change your answers and have control to tackle the questions you want to answer first.

The GRE revised General Test provides the Score Select option, which means one can take a GRE test now or again in the future, and only send schools the best set of scores. The scores are valid for five years.

Structure of the Computer-delivered Test

Measure	Number of Questions	Allotted Time
Analytical Writing (One section with two separately timed tasks)	One "Analyze an Issue" task and one "Analyze an Argument" task	30 minutes per task
Verbal Reasoning (Two sections)	20 questions per section	30 minutes per section
Quantitative Reasoning (Two sections)	20 questions per section	35 minutes per section
Total Time		3 hours 45 minutes

The Analytical Writing sections will always be first, while the other four sections may appear in any order.

EXAM PATTERN OF GRE

FLOW A
SECTION	NO. OF QUESTIONS	TIME
AWA 1	1 ESSAY	30 Minutes
AWA 2	1 ESSAY	30 Minutes
QUANT	20	35 Minutes
10 minutes optional break
Verbal	20	30 minutes
Quant	20	35 minutes
Verbal	20	30 minutes
Quant	20	35 minutes
Experimental section: Quant

SYLLABUS OF GRE
GRE VERBAL

Expertise Required
- Vocabulary
- Comprehension Speed
- Reading Speed
Question Types
- Sentence Equivalence and Text Completion
- Reading Comprehension
GRE AWA

Expertise Required
- Analyse an Issue
- Analyse an Argument
Criteria of Evaluating the Essays
- Content
- Organization
- Language
- Grammar
GRE QUANT SYLLABUS

Expertise Required
- Arithmetic
- Algebra
- Geometry
- Data Analysis
GRE QUANT: QUESTION

Expertise Required
- Quantitative Comparison Questions
- Multiple-choice Question - Select One Answer Choice
- Multiple-choice Question - Select One or More Answer Choices
- Numeric Entry Questions
COURSE MODULE FOR GRE

Module I

Quantitative Ability: Introduction - Score Scheme, Duration, Type of Questions and Their Breakup; Number System- Number Tree, Types of Integers and Their Properties, Factors and Multiples, Remainders and Divisibility; Round Off Rules, Digits; Ratios and Proportions-Substitution, Simplification, Common Ratio, Unitary Method; Percentages-Percentage Change; Successive Percentage Change, Profit and Loss, Simple and Compound Interest.

Verbal Ability: Reading Comprehension: Reading Skills– Mechanical and Critical Reading, Intensive and Extensive Reading, Types of Passages and Questions and Strategies involved in Solving Questions; Critical Reasoning - Introduction; Essentials of Reasoning; Assumption, Inference, Strengthening of Argument, Weakening of Argument, Flaw, Application; Vocabulary Building – Method – 1: Root; Synonyms and Antonyms; Vocabulary Based Exercises(Sentence Equivocation)

Module II

Quantitative Ability: Exponents and Algebra-Properties of Exponents; Expressions, Linear equations, Quadratic Equations and Simultaneous Equations, Introduction to functions; Inequalities and Modulus-Greater and Least Integer Function, Properties of Inequalities, Modulus Function and its Properties.

Verbal Ability: Reading Comprehension – Reading Skills – Mechanical and Critical Reading, Intensive and Extensive Reading, Types of Passages and Questions and Strategies involved in Solving Questions; Vocabulary Building– Method – 2: Eponym; GRE Word List – 1-5; Vocabulary Based Exercises (Single Blank Filling); Analytical Writing Skills: Introduction; Two Types of Essays – Content and Format requirement of Argument Essay and Issue Essay; Issue Essay Writing – Discussing an Issue Topic and Writing Guidelines.

Module III

Quantitative Ability: Angles and Triangles-Types of Angles and Their Properties, Types of Triangle, Triangle Inequality, Pythagoras Theorem, Special Triangles, Similar Triangles; Quadrilaterals and Polygons-Properties of Polygons, Types of Quadrilaterals and Their Properties, Area and Perimeter of Quadrilaterals; Circles and Solids-Circumference and Area of Circle, Area of Sector and Length of Arc, Properties of Chord and Segment.

Verbal Ability: Reading Comprehension – Practice on Eclectic Passages and Question Types – 1 & 2; Vocabulary Building–Method – 3: Affixes and Word Formations (Noun-Adjective-Verb and Vice Versa); GRE Word List – 6-10; Vocabulary Based Exercises (Double Blank Filling); Analytical Writing Skills: Argument Essay Writing – Discussing an Argument Topic and Writing Guidelines.

Module IV

Quantitative Ability: Averages and Statistics-Mean, Mode Median, Range, Standard Deviation and Normal Distribution Data Interpretation-Bar Chart, Pie Chart, Line Graph and Tables based problems; Overlapping Sets-Properties of Sets-Complement, Union and Intersection of a Set, Two Overlapping Sets, Three Overlapping Sets, Matrix Approach to Solve Two Overlapping Sets.

Verbal Ability: Reading Comprehension– Practice on Eclectic Passages and Question Types – 3, 4 & 5; GRE Word List – 11-15; Vocabulary Based Exercises (Triple Blank Filling); Analytical Writing Skills: Issue and Argument Essay Writing Practice.

Module V

Quantitative Ability: Counting and probability-Fundamental Principle of Counting, Permutations, Combinations, Probability in context, AND and OR rule, Geometric Probability, Mutually Exclusive Cases; Sequences and Series and Functions-Arithmetic progression, Geometric Progression, Harmonic Progression and Miscellaneous Series Coordinate Geometry and Graphs- Distance Formula, Section Formula, Equation of line, Slope and intercepts, Graph of linear inequalities, Graph of Quadratic Function, Graph of Modulus Function, Equation of Circle and its Graph, Graph of Higher Degree Polynomials.

Verbal Ability: Miscellaneous Reading Comprehension and Critical Reasoning Practice and Miscellaneous Vocabulary Based Exercises (Sentence Equivocation, Single Blank Filling, Double Blank Filling, Triple Blank Filling); Revision of Tips and Strategies involved in Essay Writing.

TOP ACHIEVERS OF GRE

Student Name	Scores out of 340
Piyush Goel	335
Mansir Sharma	335
Sarthak Agarwal	334
Piyush Singh	333
Naveen Gupta	332
Ayushi Garg	331
Manish Verma	329

GRE

Structure of the Computer-delivered Test

EXAM PATTERN OF GRE

FLOW A

Expertise Required

Question Types

Expertise Required

Criteria of Evaluating the Essays

Expertise Required

Expertise Required

Module I

Module II

Module III

Module IV

Module V

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