Description: The Verbal and Quantitative Reasoning sections of the GRE General Test are adaptive tests. They are tailored to your performance level and provide precise information about your abilities using fewer test questions than traditional paper-based tests.
At the start of the test, you are presented with test questions of moderate difficulty. As you answer each question, the computer scores it and uses that information, as well as your responses to preceding questions and information about the test design, to determine the next question. As long as you answer correctly, you will typically be given questions of increasing difficulty. When you respond incorrectly, you will typically be given less difficult questions.
Because the computer scores each question before selecting the next one, you must answer each question when it is presented. For this reason, once you answer a question and move on to another, you cannot go back and change your answer. The computer has already incorporated both your answer and the requirements of the test design into its selection of your next question.
On the Analytical Writing section, the two writing tasks are displayed on the computer, and you must type your essay responses.
For the "Issue" task you will be able to choose one of two essay topics selected by the computer from the pool of topics.
The "Argument" task does not offer a choice of topics; the computer will present you with a single topic selected from the topic pool.
The testing software uses an elementary word processor developed by ETS so that individuals familiar or unfamiliar with a specific commercial word-processing software do not have an advantage or disadvantage. The software contains the following functionalities: inserting text, deleting text, cut and paste, undoing the previous action and scrolling.
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