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Get the Power of Confidence.

The GRE® revised General Test gives you the Power of Confidence to help you do your best. With the GRE revised General Test, you decide which scores to send to schools. If you feel you didn’t do your best on test day, that’s okay. You can retake the test and then send ONLY the scores you want schools to see. It’s all part of the ScoreSelect^SM option, only available with GRE tests.

Plus, the GRE revised General Test is the only admissions test for graduate or business school that lets you skip questions within a section, go back and change answers and have control to tackle the questions within a section you want to answer first.

It all makes for a test-taker friendly experience that better fits your personal testing strategies while giving you more confidence and the ability to use your scores for thousands of graduate and business schools around the world. That’s why it’s a smart move to take the GRE revised General Test.

• Learn about the test-taker friendly design: You can skip questions and go back to them, change or edit your answers — all within a section — and more, giving you the flexibility to use more of your own personal test-taking strategies and style.
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• Put your best scores forward with the ScoreSelect^SM option. Whether you are taking a GRE test for the first time or retaking it, the ScoreSelect^SM option lets you send only the scores you want your schools to see. Knowing you have that option can help you approach test day with even more confidence – and help you focus on doing your best.
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• Find out about the new types of questions: There are new types of questions in the Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning sections, many featuring real-life scenarios, that are more like the kind of thinking you'll do in today's demanding graduate or business school programs.
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• Prepare for the test: Get the only FREE, official test prep materials available from the maker of the GRE revised General Test. It's as close to the actual test as you can get!
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• Understand your GRE^® scores: Find out how the test is scored, what your scores mean and when you can expect to receive your scores.
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• Find a test center location: There are about 700 test centers all over the world.
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• See top FAQs: What are the most common questions about the GRE revised General Test? Find them and the official answers here.
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• Tested before August 1st, 2011? Here's where you'll find details about your scores and other important information.
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did you know?

GRE scores are good for 5 years so you can take the computer-based GRE revised General Test now and have time to explore your options. And now, test takers can take the GRE revised General Test once every 30 days, and up to five times within any continuous rolling 12-month period.
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*For those taking the paper-based GRE revised General Test, calculators will be provided at the test center for use during the test.