The test was significantly revised in August , so test preparation materials from before that will be out-of-date. The New GRE is adaptive between sections but not within them. For all test takers, the first section will consist of questions ranked as easy, medium, and difficult.
You may answer questions in any order, skip questions, and mark questions to return to later within that one section. Once the section is complete, however, you may not return to that section. The second Verbal and Quantitative sections, respectively, will be adjusted for difficulty based on how you did on the first section. If you got most of the questions correct, you will get more difficult questions in the second section.
There are six sections with a minute break following the third section. Questions in the unscored section are being tried out either for possible use in future tests or to ensure that scores on new editions of the test are comparable to scores from earlier editions. The research section will always appear at the end of the test.
For full details, please click here. However, the most important change you'll see is the complete paradigm shift in the exam's design: The old GRE was a Computer-Adaptive Test CAT , in which testers saw only one question at a time and had to answer it before moving on. The big difference is that while a CAT test serves questions one at a time, an MST exam selects questions in groups, or stages. Each of the two Math sections on the Revised GRE is effectively a separate stage in determining your Math score; likewise for the two Verbal sections.
So for the Revised GRE, it is critical to perform well section by section rather than question by question. In fact, performance on the first Math section determines the difficulty level of the second, just like the old GRE determined the difficulty level of each successive question. Thus, though the Revised GRE's MST design minimizes the importance of any individual question, it is essentially scored in a similar fashion to the old GRE: you'll receive a scaled score based on the number of questions completed, the number of questions answered correctly, and the difficulty level of the questions presented.
The Quantatative Analysis sections have four question types: Quantitative Comparison Questions, Multiple Choice select one answer , Multiple Choice select one or more answers , and Numeric Entry questions. For quantitative comparisons, students must evaluate which of two quantities is greater or whether they are equal, or whether it is impossible to determine their relationship. These questions are somewhat similar to "data sufficiency" questions on the GMAT, except that in addition to deciding whether the data are sufficient you must also indicate the relationship between the magnitudes of the two quantities.
Numeric Entry questions present a text box, into which you must enter the specific value of the correct answer. The Multiple Choice questions are self-explanitory, but you must be careful to distinguish between questions that have a single correct answer and questions that may have multiple correct answers. The best way to practice making this distinction is to take computer-based practice tests and get comfortable with the computer testing system.
Multiple Choice questions that only allow a single answer will have a "bubble" format, where the answer changes if you select a different bubble.
Multiple Choice questions that allow multiple answers will have a "checkbox" format that allows multiple selections. After the Analytical Writing section, one of the remaining five sections will be an Experimental test section. The five sections can be presented in any order and the Experimental section may be either Verbal Reasoning or Quantitative Reasoning.
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