GRE General Test

Graduate school, business school, and law school applicants

Total time

About 1 hour 58 minutes

Sections

Score scale

Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning...

Cost

$220

Scores valid

5 years

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Structure

Section	Questions	Time	Scored
Analytical Writing (one Analyze an Issue essay task, always first)	1	30 min	-
Verbal Reasoning (two sections)	27	41 min	130 to 170
Quantitative Reasoning (two sections, 12 + 15 questions)	27	47 min	130 to 170

Total: About 1 hour 58 minutes; Analytical Writing always comes first, and the Verbal and Quantitative sections may appear in any order after it. (ETS, 2025)

Cost and logistics

Cost	$220 Worldwide fee everywhere except China, where it is $231.30; the same fee applies whether you test at a test center or at home; the ETS Fee Reduction Program cuts the fee to $100 for eligible test takers (ETS, 2025)
Delivery	Computer-delivered at a test center or at home (Menlo Coaching, 2025)
Score validity	5 years (ETS, 2025)
Retakes	Can be taken once every 21 days, up to 5 times within any continuous rolling 12-month period (ETS, 2025)
Score release	Official scores are available in your ETS account 8 to 10 days after the test date (ETS, 2025)

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What it is for and who accepts it

ETS positions it as the only graduate admissions test usable across a range of master's, MBA, specialized business master's, JD, and doctoral programs (ETS, 2025)

Accepted by more than 20,000 graduate, business, and law programs worldwide, including 1,300+ MBA programs and 100+ ABA-approved law schools' JD programs (ETS, 2025)

Worth knowing

Shortened format (about 1 hour 58 minutes) with five sections total; the design lets you skip questions within a section, go back, and change answers (ETS, 2025)
Verbal and Quantitative are section-level adaptive: the second section's difficulty is set by your performance on the first (ETS, 2025)
More than 100 ABA-approved law schools accept GRE scores for JD programs, and ETS publishes official lists of accepting law and business schools (ETS, 2025)
The GRE Fee Reduction Program lowers the registration fee to $100 and includes two free practice tests for eligible test takers (Achievable, 2025)

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Facts on this page are recorded from the sources cited beside each figure, most recently checked 2026-08-19. The exam belongs to its maker; always confirm current fees, formats, and policies on the official registration site before booking a test date.