This Section consists of two separately timed writing tasks, Analyze an Issue and Analyze an Argument, in that order. Standard timing for each task is 30 minutes.
Important Notice
Your essay responses on the Analytical Writing section will be reviewed by Educational Testing Service (ETS) essay-similarity-detection software and by experienced essay readers during the scoring process. In light of the high value placed on independent intellectual activity within US graduate schools and universities, ETS reserves the right to cancel test scores of any test taker when there is substantial evidence that an essay response includes, but is not limited to, any of the following:
Text that is similar to that found in one or more other GRE® essay responses
Quoting or paraphrasing, without attribution, language that appears in published or unpublished sources
Unacknowledged use of work that has been produced through collaboration with others without citation of the contribution of others
Essays that are submitted as work of the examinee when the words have, in fact, been borrowed from elsewhere or prepared by another person
When one or more of the above circumstances occur, your essay text, in ETS's professional judgment, does not reflect the independent writing skills that this test seeks to measure. Therefore, ETS must cancel the score as invalid and cannot report the GRE General Test scores of which the Analytical Writing score is an indispensable part. No record of the score cancellation or the reason for cancellation will appear on future score reports sent to colleges and universities.
The first Analytical Writing task follows. In an actual test, your supervisor will tell you when the testing time starts, at which point you may continue.
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