What are the Best Competitive Exams for Post Graduate Degrees?

What are the Best Competitive Exams for Post Graduate Degrees? Competition is getting harder each day and the door to the best academic institution is a lot of hard work and dedication. The competitive exams that are trending now are GRE Exam and IELTS Exam. These are the two entrance tests given by students to join the best universities or top-level graduate schools for degree in Masters (M.S in USA). Thus, they aim at scoring a good percent. GRE stands for Graduate Record Examination but, nowadays it is known as Revised General Test and IELTS stands for the International English Language Testing System.

  

Exams Eligibility:

GRE Exam Eligibility: All students who hold a passport are eligible for GRE Exam. There are no age limit specifications or qualification is set for the pre-requisites. The particular universities will set eligibility criteria to accept the GRE scores. 

IELTS Exam Eligibility: For taking up this exam, the candidate must be at least 16 years of age and they must have a valid passport.

●       It is applicable only for the following countries: UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, USA.

●       Planning to work or study in UK, Australia or USA.

●       If the student is planning to emigrate to Canada, Australia or New Zealand.

GRE Exam Dates:

Unlike other entrance exams GRE is flexible and there is no specific date to take up the exam. It can be taken at any time of the year by taking an appointment. During the peak months that are usually from August to December, it may be difficult to find an appointment as preferred by the students. Thus it is important to plan your GRE schedule and the preferred dates in advance. A person can take up GRE test once in 21 days and this can go up to five times a year.

IELTS Test Dates:

We can choose the date of examination to take up the test. It is usually on Thursdays or Saturdays.

Pattern of the Exams:

GRE Exam consists of analytical writing, verbal reasoning and qualitative reasoning whereas IELTS Exam includes listening, writing, speaking and reading. There are numerous coaching centers in every nook and corner possible for students to prepare for the exams. Many states in India have the exams conducted for students and there are many centers in each state too.

Scores and Levels

IELTS exams are multi level. You can get a score between 1 to 9. There can be half scores also such as 7.5 etc. There are four sections in total. Some universities might demand for a minimum score in each section also or they might accept scores of students with more than 6 or 7.

Whereas GRE is a computer based and written exam. The computer based exam records all the answers and the scores are based on the number of correct answers to the questions. The answers which include reasoning are section level adaptive. It means that the computer only selects the second section answers based on the performance in the first section. In each of the two measures, the number of correct answers is computed. It is also known as raw score. In the paper based also the raw score is computed. Then, both of it is added and the final score is given out. If a student scored more than 320 marks then they can get admitted into the top universities abroad.

These competitive exams need a lot of hard work, effort and dedication. A student has to prepare a schedule before giving the exam and has to try their best to score the best marks according to his ability to get into the top universities.