The GRE Psychology Subject Test is administered by the
Educational Testing Service (ETS) and is designed to test
advanced knowledge that a student applying to graduate school in
psychology is expected to understand. The test requires knowledge
of psychological vocabulary, names, and facts across a variety of
psychological fields at the equivalent of an upper-level college
class.
The GRE Psychology exam is a traditional paper-and-pencil test
consisting of approximately 215–220 multiple-choice questions
with five answer choices. The test spans 2 hours and 50
minutes and measures your knowledge of a wide range of
undergraduate psychology content as well as your general
test-taking skills.
Questions fall into one of three content categories:
- Experimental or natural science-oriented (about 40
percent of the questions), including learning, language,
memory, thinking, sensation and perception, physiological
psychology, ethology, and comparative psychology. They
contribute to the experimental psychology subscore and the
total score.
- Social or social science-oriented (about 43 percent
of the questions). These questions are distributed among the
fields of clinical and abnormal, developmental, personality,
and social psychology. They contribute to the social psychology
subscore and the total score.
- General (about 17 percent of the questions),
including the history of psychology, applied psychology,
measurement, research designs, and statistics. They contribute
to the total score only.
