GRE Articles & Guides

Hard is a percentile question, not an opinion. The GRE average is 151.39 verbal and 157.62 quant, and one scaled point can be worth 6 percentile places.

The GRE General Test runs 1 hour 58 minutes of testing time with no breaks, but check in means blocking out about 2 hours 28 minutes of your day.

The highest GRE score is 340, from a 170 verbal and a 170 quant, with a separate 6.0 writing ceiling. Here is how rare each one is in the current ETS data.

The GRE score range is 130 to 170 for verbal and quant, 0 to 6 for analytical writing, and a 260 to 340 total that excludes the writing score.

Seven PA programs checked on their own admissions pages for the 2026-2027 CASPA cycle: six ask for no GRE, one still does, and how to verify your own list.

The 235 GRE vocabulary words ETS actually uses in its two free official practice tests, tagged to Text Completion, Sentence Equivalence, or reading.

The GRE runs year round, so the real question is how late you can sit. The last safe date is your deadline minus 10 days, or minus 38 with a retake.

There is no single good GRE score. Use the current ETS field averages to set separate verbal and quant targets for your own subject, with percentiles.

An updated 2026 guide to GRE score percentiles with the latest ETS percentile table, section averages, and practical target-setting benchmarks for grad school admissions.

Use this 2026 GRE vs LSAT guide to compare structure, timing, scoring, costs, retake rules, and law school admissions strategy using current ETS and LSAC policy.