GRE: Graduate Record Exam, General Test
Test Takers with Disabilities should obtain a GRE Bulletin Supplement and follow registration instructions at the ETS GRE website.
Fee: $140.00
Fee Reduction: Current Cal Poly students receiving financial aid may qualify for a GRE fee reduction, which will lower fees for either the General GRE, Subject GRE, or both. Contact the Financial Aid Office for details.
Students using fee waivers must register through the mail to ETS, using the Authorization Voucher Request Form, found in the GRE Bulletin. When your voucher request and fee waiver documentation is received, ETS will issue you a "voucher" which you may use to schedule your appointment with us. Allow 3-5 weeks for this registration process.
To schedule an appointment to take the test at our center, you may register on-line at www.gre.org, or call 1-800-GRE-CALL, or call us at 805-756-1551 . You must pay the test fee at the time you make your appointment, either with a credit card or an ETS voucher.
To cancel or reschedule an appointment, please call 1-800-GRE-CALL.
CAL POLY TESTING SCHEDULE
SUMMER QUARTER 2008:
Wednesdays and some Saturdays.
FALL QUARTER 2008:
Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and some Saturdays
WINTER QUARTER 2009:
Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and some Saturdays
For actual dates and times, consult the GRE website.
For more information, you may pick up a copy of the GRE Information Bulletin in the Cal Poly Testing Services office, or visit the official GRE website.
TEST CONTENT:
The GRE General Test measures verbal, quantitative, and analytical writing skills that have been acquired over a long period of time and that are not related to any specific field of study.
The verbal section measures your ability to analyze and evaluate written material and synthesize information obtained from it, to analyze relationships among component parts of sentences, to recognize relationships between words and concepts, and to reason with words in solving problems. There is a balance of passages across different subject matter areas: humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
[30 questions - 30 minutes.]
The quantitative section measures your basic mathematical skills, your understanding of elementary mathematical concepts, and your ability to reason quantitatively and solve problems in a quantitative setting. There is a balance of questions requiring arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and data analysis. These are content areas usually studied in high school.
[28 questions - 45 minutes.]
The analytical writing section is a new section introduced beginning in October 2002 that tests your critical thinking and analytical writing skills. It assesses your ability to articulate and support complex ideas, analyze an argument, and sustain a focused and coherent discussion. It does not assess specific content knowledge.
[The two writing tasks are: Present Your Perspective on an Issue - 45 minutes; Analyze an Argument - 30 minutes.]
SCORE REPORTING:
Score reports are mailed to you and up to four institutions approximately 10 to 15 days after you take the test. These institutions must be designated on the test day. If you do not select score recipients on the test day, you must pay $15 per recipient to have scores sent at a later date. Please allow sufficient time for mail delivery from Princeton, New Jersey, USA. Allow additional time for receipt and processing time, as institutions have the option of receiving scores in a format that is distributed approximately twice a month.