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Professional Certifications & Licensure Test Preparation

This guide includes links to books, databases, websites, and guides to assist those preparing for national and state tests and examinations.

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The Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) General Test helps you do your best on test day. With the GRE General Test, you decide which scores to send to schools. If you feel you didn't do your best on test day, that's okay. You can retake the test and then send only the scores you want schools to see. It's all part of the ScoreSelect option, only available with GRE tests.

Plus, the GRE General Test is the only admissions test for graduate and professional school that lets you skip questions within a section, go back and change answers, and have control to tackle the questions within a section you want to answer first.

The GRE General Test features question types that closely reflect the kind of thinking you'll do in graduate and professional school, including business and law.

  • Verbal Reasoning — Measures the ability to analyze and draw conclusions from discourse, reason from incomplete data, understand multiple levels of meaning, such as literal, figurative and author’s intent, summarize text, distinguish major from minor points, understand the meanings of words, sentences and entire texts, and understand relationships among words and among concepts. There is an emphasis on complex verbal reasoning skills.
  • Quantitative Reasoning — Measures the ability to understand, interpret and analyze quantitative information, solve problems using mathematical models, and apply the basic concepts of arithmetic, algebra, geometry and data analysis. There is an emphasis on quantitative reasoning skills.
  • Analytical Writing — Measures critical thinking and analytical writing skills, including the ability to articulate and support complex ideas with relevant reasons and examples, and examine claims and accompanying evidence. There is an emphasis on analytical writing skills.

Learn more about the content and structure of the GRE General Test.

Information about the GRE General Test

View general advice, sample questions with explanations, scoring guides and tips for answering question types to become familiar with each of the test sections:

Three powerful tools to meet your preparation needs. Use one or all three!

 
  • POWERPREP Test Preview Tool
    • Contains information to help familiarize you with the question types, test features and help tools that are available during the actual GRE General Test. This free tool can be found in the “My Test Preparation and Services” section of your ETS Account. Log in to Your ETS Account to preview the test 

 
  • POWERPREP Online
    • Two free practice tests that simulate the actual test and include the test-taker friendly design features you’ll encounter on test day, like moving back and forth between questions, changing answers within a section and the on-screen calculator.  POWERPREP Online also provides the following accommodations: extended time, extra breaks, screen magnification, selectable colors, and screen reader and refreshable braille compatibility.

      Learn more about the accommodations offered in the POWERPREP practice tests or access POWERPREP®Online now 

 
  • POWERPREP PLUS Online
    • Three official practice tests (sold separately), each containing a different set of never-before-published real test questions, simulate the computer-delivered test experience and provide scores within minutes for all three measures, explanations for correct answers, a score report that summarizes your performance, and more! POWERPREP PLUS Online also provides the following accommodations: extended time, extra breaks, screen magnification, selectable colors, and screen reader and refreshable braille compatibility.

      Learn more about the accommodations offered in the POWERPREP practice tests or Purchase POWERPREP PLUS® Online

Registration Checklist

Before you begin the registration process, it's important to review fees, make sure you pick the right test date and understand the policies and procedures. See the Registration Checklist.

Watch How to Create an ETS Account video. (Read transcript.)

Watch How to Register for a GRE General Test video. (Read transcript.)

ID Requirements

You are responsible for bringing valid and acceptable identification on test day, and it must bear the first and last name you used when you created your account and registered for your test. See ID Requirements.

Test Centers and Dates

View test centers and dates for the GRE General test. For the computer-delivered test, you can also view seat availability, though you won't be able to register without signing into your GRE Account. See Test Centers and Dates.

Register for the Computer-delivered Test

The computer-delivered test is offered year round, and you can register online or by phone. How you register may vary depending on where you will test. Register for the computer-delivered test.

Register for the Paper-delivered Test

The paper-delivered test is offered up to three times a year in areas of the world where the computer-delivered test is not available, and you can register online or by mail. Register for the paper-delivered test.

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