Graduate Record Exam (GRE) - Dornsife Career Pathways

The Graduate Record Exam (GRE) is one of the more popular exams for non-business or health related graduate programs. Some law and business schools will accept GRE scores however taking the GRE for these programs is less common than the LSAT and GMAT.

The GRE is administered by ETS. ETS offers a general test as well as single subject tests in Mathematics, Physics and Psychology. The Chemistry test was discontinued April 2023 but is reportable for 5 years from test date).

The highest score on the GRE General Test is 340 (170 verbal reasoning, 170 quantitative reasoning). Additionally, you are scored separately for the analytical writing (0-6 points).

Breakdown

Spring 2023 updates to format
Just like for the SAT and ACT, there are study tools available including book, websites, and courses.

ETS and Udemy offer free to very low cost prep resources.

For profit test prep organizations include the following:

Kaplan

The Princeton Review

TestMasters

Magoosh

Manhattan Prep

PrepScholar
Understanding your GRE score

Scores take 5-10 business days to be sent to test takers and the schools you selected to receive your scores. Learn more here.