GRE is changing! GRE is Changing and before you know it, GRE has already changed! August is just around the corner and the current month of June is the last change for the GRE applicants to give the test in the old GRE format. From August 2011, the new GRE will come into effect, and students will be pitched against newer types of questions in the maths as well as verbal ability sections.

Do not panic because of the changes. The fundamentals of maths will remain to be the same. It is not as if 2+2 will be suddenly equal to 5 or the sum total of all the angles in a triangle will be lesser than or greater than 180! The proposed changes have been made to make the quantitative section of GRE more analytical and hence it is now known as quantitative reasoning.

There will be four types of questions in the GRE quantitative reasoning, namely quantitative comparison, Multiple-Choice Questions – Select One, Multiple-Choice Questions – Select One or More, Numeric Entry, Data Interpretation etc.

Let us take a look at the GRE Quantitative Comparison questions:

Under these types of questions, two quantities are given along with some information on them. Based on the information given above them, you have to decide whether

a)      Quantity A is greater than Quantity B

b)      Quantity B is greater than Quantity A

c)       Quantity A is equal to Quantity B

d)      No relationship can be determined between the two quantities on the basis of given information

Example: