1. What is the GRE?The GRE General Test is a standardized test that is designed to measure academic readiness for graduate school. Some grad programs require that applicants take not only the GRE ...

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BEIJING (Reuters) - When 21-year-old Zhang, an average student in college, got set for the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) in Beijing this year, she felt so unprepared that she skipped the exam entirely.

The latest ETS data shows that the average GRE scores are about 151 in Verbal, 158 in Quant, and 3.4 in Writing, which means most test takers land in the middle of the scale. A good prep course can ...