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4 Top-Scoring GRE Sample Essays, Analyzed (Issue + Argument)

Laura StaffaroniMarch 27, 2017May 16, 2017GRE Analytical Writinggre argument task, gre issue task, preparing for the gre

The best way to figure out how to get a high Analytical Writing score is to look at a GRE essay sample, but doing so without any guidance can be overwhelming. How do you show insight? Do typos affect your score? What’s a good way to keep your essay organized?

We’ll answer all these questions for you (and more!) in this article by analyzing four real GRE essay examples and highlighting the key features you’ll want to include in your own essays.

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GRE Issue Essay: 4 Steps to a Perfect Score

Laura StaffaroniMarch 27, 2017March 28, 2023GRE Analytical Writinggre issue task, perfect score, preparing for the gre, study tips

Of all the different kinds of questions on the GRE, the GRE Issue essay question can seem like the most daunting to answer completely correctly. Instead of choosing from a selection of already-made answers or filling in a numerical solution, you must write hundreds of words in an attempt to fulfill rubric criteria, knowing that there is no one right answer to the question.

To help make this Herculean task more manageable, we’ll go over the Issue essay GRE rubric in depth and offer our top GRE Issue essay tips to help you score highly every time.

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GRE Argument Essay: How to Get a Perfect 6 Score

Laura StaffaroniMarch 27, 2017May 16, 2017GRE Analytical Writinggre argument task, perfect score, preparing for the gre, study tips

Of all the various types of questions on the GRE, Analytical Writing questions can seem like the trickiest ones to answer perfectly. Not only do you have to write hundreds of words to answer the Argument essay GRE question, but there’s also no one set correct answer that you can give and automatically get it right.

So how do you reliably score well on the GRE Argument essay? In this article, we’ll focus in on what goes into a high-scoring response and offer some GRE Argument essay tips to help you consistently write essays that meet those standards.

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The 15 Best GRE Essay Tips to Improve Your Score

Laura StaffaroniJanuary 4, 2017September 7, 2017GRE Analytical Writinggre argument task, gre issue task, preparing for the gre, study tips

The GRE’s Analytical Writing section can be pretty intimidating. It’s the very first thing you’ll face when you sit down to take the exam, and you have to write two essays in one hour. No wonder a lot of students find it the most stressful part of the GRE!

But fear not: to help make the Analytical Writing section more approachable, I’ll teach you 15 great GRE essay tips to aid both the newbie and the experienced test taker.

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What’s A Good GRE Writing Score? A Bad GRE Score?

Laura StaffaroniDecember 12, 2016December 20, 2017GRE Analytical Writinggre scores, percentiles

The GRE writing score is perhaps the most confusing part of your score report. What does it mean? Do schools care about it at all?

In this article, we’ll clarify all of that and explain how you can figure out what a good GRE Writing score is for you. We’ll go over percentiles for the GRE Writing as a whole as well as average and cut-off scores for grad programs and how you can use all this information to choose a target GRE Writing score.

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How Is the GRE Essay Scored?

Laura StaffaroniDecember 12, 2016January 29, 2024GRE Analytical Writingexplainers, gre scores

Your GRE Writing score is a kind of cyborg measurement that averages together both human and machine ratings and melds them into an Analytical Writing score on a scale of 0-6. But how does a human grade the essay? Is the computer grader trustworthy?

In this article, we’ll explain the details of the GRE essay scoring process and the rubrics used by the human graders to derive your two essay scores.

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328 Official GRE Essay Topics to Practice With

Laura StaffaroniDecember 12, 2016September 20, 2017GRE Analytical Writinggre format, gre practice, preparing for the gre, study tips

ETS has published the complete pool of 328 GRE essay topics which will ever appear on the Analytical Writing section of the test. While these collections of prompts provide unparalleled Analytical Writing practice, some test takers may find the sheer number of possible essay topics to be a bit overwhelming.

In this article, we’ve assembled over 60 official GRE essay topics for both the Issue and Argument tasks and used them to illustrate the 14 different kinds of GRE writing prompts you could see on test day. With this expert analysis, you’ll know how to tackle any GRE essay prompt that comes your way.

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