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The GRE essay section consists of two essays that require different strategies. The first is a 30-minute essay that requires you to present your perspective on a given issue. The second is also 30 minutes and requires you to analyze an argument by identifying logical flaws. The essays are important because they provide insights into a candidate's thinking, reasoning, and ability to analyze and present opinions, which can't be assessed otherwise. Strong English writing skills are essential to score well on these essays. Proper preparation is needed, including practicing concise, disciplined writing by structuring essays in an introduction, 2-3 body paragraphs, and a conclusion without personal rants or delving into one's personal life.

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GRE Essay

The GRE essay section consists of two essays that require different strategies. The first is a 30-minute essay that requires you to present your perspective on a given issue. The second is also 30 minutes and requires you to analyze an argument by identifying logical flaws. The essays are important because they provide insights into a candidate's thinking, reasoning, and ability to analyze and present opinions, which can't be assessed otherwise. Strong English writing skills are essential to score well on these essays. Proper preparation is needed, including practicing concise, disciplined writing by structuring essays in an introduction, 2-3 body paragraphs, and a conclusion without personal rants or delving into one's personal life.

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GRE Essay Writing / Analytical Writing

(AWA)
The GRE Assessment of Writing is used by the graduate schools for evaluating
one's writing skills. The essay writing section has two essay questions assessed
by the GRE essay graders who are normally graduate students. The two essays
require a totally different and unique strategy:

Give Your Perspective on a Particular Issue (a 30 min test)


 Present your opinion or view on a contentious issue. Analysis of the
Argument (a 30 min test)
 You need to study the reasoning in the particular argument and then find the
logical flaws.

First Essay
The 1st essay is related with analyzing an issue, while the 2nd essay is about
analyzing an argument. In the case of analyzing an issue, the examinee would
be given two topics, and they would have to pick one out of the two. The
question here will present to you the opinion of the issue in brief. You'll need to
analyze the same and then give your opinion/view in a very convincing manner,
under 45 minutes.

Second Essay
The 2nd essay would be related to the argument analysis. There's only one topic
here, which is mandatory and there's no additional choice. The examinee would
have to analyze the given argument presented in a critical way and give in ideas,
opposing the author's views by giving a counter observation, which is valid,
under 30 minutes. You'll be judged here, on your ability to think as well as
oppose critically, the given views. You don't have to give out your personal
views on this topic. The topics would be related to the normal issues. Thus one
does not need to have a prior knowledge of the same.

Why is Essay important?


The whole idea of having this section in the paper is judging the candidate
better. Essays give a good insight into one's way of thinking, understanding,
reasoning, analyzing & presenting their opinions that cannot be judged in any
better way. This is a section for which learning things by heart won't help as one
has to scratch their very brains to get into the matter's depth to write well and
clever. The essay section in the GRE also is a language test for a student
appearing this test. The essays, in fact, are long passages which are written for
expressing one's views/ideas, so one has to write it in a very good English
format. Your command of English has to be good, meaning, it ought to be not
only grammatically correct but the language was written should be very
impressive.

It will be a huge mistake if you try and attempt the given essays in this section
in a way you've been writing essays before in the classes. The issue essay in
GRE needs a sufficient amount of prep before the real test. When preparing for
this issue essay, you need to understand and know as to what all can be asked in
an issue essay. You also ought to know the essay's total word limit; the time
allotted as well as the maximum marks you can score in this writing section.

 You need to type in your response in this Essay test, so there obviously isn't a
grammar check or spell-check available.
 These essays are all marked by one computer program called the 'e-rater' and
one human reader.
 The scores of this test range between 1 and 6

A score '4' out of '6' is considered 'competent.' Although it's nice being efficient,
you should always strive for good or the best, so it's equally important to put in
a little more effort, just like to do for the other sections, for this section as well.

Preparing for the Analytical Writing Section:


Many students under-prepare themselves for this writing section. It's ironic as
it's one of the GRE sections where even a small preparation can create a huge
difference on the day of the test. To tackle this GRE's essay section, one must
know about writing in a concise and a disciplined manner:
 Divide the essay into an introductory paragraph, 2-3 content paragraphs
along with a nice conclusion.
 The issue of the essays is fraught normally with some political implications;
however, don't go ranting or a fulmination stating your views. Don't delve
into your personal life too deeply; be trammeled when writing the essay,
keeping it balanced and professional.

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