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Many graduate math programs require or recommend taking the GRE Math Subject Exam for admission to their department. As admission to graduate school becomes more competitive, more and more attention is paid to the score achieved on this test.
Please note that the GRE Math Subject Exam is NOT the same as the (math portion of the) GRE General Exam. Information on both exams can be found by going to http://www.ets.org and clicking on \GRE”.
The Math Subject exam is 2 hours and 50 minutes long, and it consists of approximately 66 multiple-choice questions drawn from courses commonly offered at the undergraduate level.
The test includes:
- Calculus – approximately 50%
- Differential and integral calculus of one and of several variables (i.e., the material learned in the lower division calculus series)
- Calculus-based applications and connections with coordinate geometry, trigonometry, differential equations, and other branches of mathematics
- Algebra – approximately 25%
- Elementary algebra: basic algebraic techniques and manipulations acquired in high school and used throughout mathematics
- Linear algebra: matrix algebra, systems of linear equations, vector spaces, linear transformations, characteristic polynomials, and eigenvalues and eigenvectors
- Abstract algebra and number theory: elementary topics from group theory; theory of rings and modules, field theory, and number theory
- Additional Topics – approximately 25%
- Introductory real analysis: sequences and series of numbers and functions, continuity, differentiability and integrability, and elementary topology of R and Rn
- Discrete mathematics: logic, set theory, combinatorics, graph theory, and algorithms
- Other topics: general topology, geometry, complex variables, probability and statistics, and numerical analysis
For more information, visit the ETS website: http://www.ets.org/gre/subject/about/content/mathematics
For a list of FAQ about the GRE subject test, click here. Check out the new “score select option” on the ETS website.