• The Test Prep Process
  How to arrange sessions and set goals
• SSAT Skills
  Secondary School Admissions Test, for 8th graders applying to private high schools
• SAT Skills
  Scholastic Assessment Test, for college-bound high school juniors and seniors
• GRE Skills
  Graduate Record Exam, for graduate school applicants
• GMAT Skills
  Graduate Management Admissions Test, for business school program applicants

GRE — Verbal and Analytical Sections

• Reading Comprehension
• Antonyms
• Analogies
• Sentence Completion
• Analytical Writing Assessment

The computer-based version of the GRE general test contains four sections. Three of those sections count towards your final score, but the fourth section (which can be in any position in the lineup) is a research section only, previewing questions for future tests, and that section doesn’t affect your final score.

• Antonyms test purely for vocabulary knowledge, without any context hints.
• Analogy questions rely on both vocabulary and logic.
• Sentence Completion sentences contain one or two blanks to be filled in from multiple choice options. They test for knowledge of vocabulary in context and for facility with complex sentence structures.
• Critical reading passages include short and long nonfiction passages on topics from infectious diseases to geology to art history, and the questions test a range of skills, including literal comprehension, narrative devices, and a variety of inference-based analyses.
• The Analytical Writing section, introduced in 2002, consists of two separate, timed essays: a 45-minutes opportunity to Present Your Perspective on an Issue, and a 30-minute Analyze an Argument task. Both writing tests require organizational skills and an ability to convincingly articulate and support a position. They are structured differently, though. The Issue test offers a choice of two issue prompts for you to respond to, argue, and support, while the Argument section presents a written argument and the task is to analyze and critique the quality and presentation of the argument.
• The computer format of the test requires different testing strategies than the paper format, since you can’t mark questions you’re unsure of and return to them later.