i want to know about the no. of years we need to study before entering for GRE?

Question

recently it was in the newspapers that 15 years of study is being accepted by some of the universities. want to know how far its true and is it applicable now?

Answer 1

As long as you are 18 and can pass the test, the number is irrelevant. Encouraged are 12 years of study but these may be of traditional school, trade, vocational, night, home, web based etc so a difficult answer to pin point

Answer 2

I had to take the GRE before I started my Master's degree program. By that time I had my Bachelor's degree which took me 3 1/2 years. So if you add that to the 12 years of elementary and secondary education, it may be around 16 years. But as far as I know, you can probably take it at any point in your schooling if you feel confident.

Answer 3

You need 16 years of formal education to be accepted by the leading universities in the US. If any university advertises otherwise, its better to be careful and look at the reputation of such universities Also, some universities say they will accept the GRE scores, subject to the condition that you undertake additional courses to make up for the 1 year (16th) in addition to your Post Graduate course requirement.

Answer 4

The GRE is the Graduate Requisite Exams. You take these tests if you want to go to graduate school. Therefore you usually take them in your last year of college.

That makes... 12 years grammar school plus 4 years college = 16 years of study.

However, some people learn fast and go through school faster than others-- they skip grades or get accepted to college a year early. My grandfather went to college at Oxford when he was 15; so assuming he stayed for 4 years and then wanted to attend an American grad school, he would have taken the GREs after only 13 or 14 years of study. I also have a girlfriend who hated school so much that she did high school in 3 years instead of 4. In fact she also finished college in three years. That means she gained two years and would have taken her GREs after 14 years of study.

As far as I know there is no age limit or year limit on when you take the GRE. It simply means you are ready to go to Grad school. Of course if you take it but don't have a college degree, no grad school will accept you. Likewise, the earlier you take it the less you will know and the less likely you are to get a good score, again lessening your chances of getting into a good grad school.

There might be some sort of a limit for foreigners; I can imagine the newspaper article might have covered that. Many other countries start kids in school a year later, and so that would affect the number of years of study they had at a given age. It is also really hard to compare the kind of education you get in the US to other countries.

In western Europe, for instance, instead of having so many different classes in middle school or jr high, and in high school, a student has to decide at age ten what they want to study. At ten years old they have to know if they want to go to college or not, and by high school or before, they might be studying just one thing, like we only do in grad school. In fact, in the US we continue to take many different courses in college, whereas that is unheard of in many places.

So you can see that it is very hard to compare someone's education from another country. A limit on years of study might then be useful in determining whether a foreign student is ready for grad school here-- what else can we compare? Nothing else is the same!

Natasha

Answer 5

It doesn't matter. I graduated college in June of 1995 and started working. By the end of the summer I decided to get my masters degree. I started my masters studies in October 1995 and took my GRE test in December 1995 (passed it my first time). Completed my masters degree in October 1996!!!

Answer 6

Do you want to go abroad to study? where are you from and where do you want to study? it is necessary to know, in order to answer your questions. Usually, in India , you can go for MS after completing your graduation here, you can do your Gre in the last year of your graduation. But do try to score a very high score in case you are serious about studying further abroad. For this you might also need to give TOEFL exam.

Answer 7

If you have a basic grasp of high-school level math and English, take it whenever you want. I've had friends who took it and said that as long as you know the basics, it's not that hard.