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This practice book
contains
one actual full-length
GRE Psychology Test
test-taking strategies
Become familiar with
test structure and content
test instructions and
answering procedures
PSYCHOLOGY
TEST
Compare your practice
test results with the
performance of those
who took the test at a
GRE administration.
PRACTICE
BOOK
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contains important information about content specifications and scoring.
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Table of Contents
Purpose of the GRE Subject Tests ........................ 3
Development of the Subject Tests ....................... 3
Content of the Psychology Test ........................... 4
Preparing for a Subject Test ................................. 5
Test-Taking Strategies .......................................... 5
What Your Scores Mean ...................................... 6
Practice Psychology Test ...................................... 7
Scoring Your Subject Test .................................. 41
Evaluating Your Performance ............................. 44
Answer Sheet ..................................................... 45
The GRE Board recommends that scores on the
Subject Tests be considered in conjunction with other
relevant information about applicants. Because numer-
ous factors influence success in graduate school, reli-
ance on a single measure to predict success is not
advisable. Other indicators of competence typically
include undergraduate transcripts showing courses
taken and grades earned, letters of recommendation,
the GRE Writing Assessment score, and GRE General
Test scores. For information about the appropriate use
of GRE scores, write to GRE Program, Educational
Testing Service, Mail Stop 57-L, Princeton, NJ 08541,
or visit our Web site at www.gre.org/codelst.html.
Development of the
Subject Tests
Each new edition of a Subject Test is developed by a
committee of examiners composed of professors in the
subject who are on undergraduate and graduate facul-
ties in different types of institutions and in different
regions of the United States and Canada. In selecting
members for each committee, the GRE Program seeks
the advice of the appropriate professional associations
in the subject.
The content and scope of each test are specified and
reviewed periodically by the committee of examiners.
Test questions are written by the committee and by
other faculty who are also subject-matter specialists and
by subject-matter specialists at ETS. All questions
proposed for the test are reviewed by the committee
and revised as necessary. The accepted questions are
assembled into a test in accordance with the content
specifications developed by the committee to ensure
adequate coverage of the various aspects of the field
and, at the same time, to prevent overemphasis on any
single topic. The entire test is then reviewed and
approved by the committee.
Purpose of the GRE
Subject Tests
The GRE Subject Tests are designed to help graduate
school admission committees and fellowship sponsors
assess the qualifications of applicants in specific fields
of study. The tests also provide you with an assessment
of your own qualifications.
Scores on the tests are intended to indicate
knowledge of the subject matter emphasized in many
undergraduate programs as preparation for graduate
study. Because past achievement is usually a good
indicator of future performance, the scores are
helpful in predicting success in graduate study.
Because the tests are standardized, the test scores
permit comparison of students from different institu-
tions with different undergraduate programs. For
some Subject Tests, subscores are provided in addi-
tion to the total score; these subscores indicate the
strengths and weaknesses of your preparation, and
they may help you plan future studies.
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Subject-matter and measurement specialists on the
ETS staff assist the committee, providing information
and advice about methods of test construction and
helping to prepare the questions and assemble the test.
In addition, each test question is reviewed to eliminate
language, symbols, or content considered potentially
offensive, inappropriate for major subgroups of the test-
taking population, or likely to perpetuate any negative
attitude that may be conveyed to these subgroups. The
test as a whole is also reviewed to ensure that the test
questions, where applicable, include an appropriate
balance of people in different groups and different roles.
Because of the diversity of undergraduate curricula,
it is not possible for a single test to cover all the
material you may have studied. The examiners, there-
fore, select questions that test the basic knowledge and
skills most important for successful graduate study in
the particular field. The committee keeps the test
up-to-date by regularly developing new editions and
revising existing editions. In this way, the test content
changes steadily but gradually, much like most cur-
ricula. In addition, curriculum surveys are conducted
periodically to ensure that the content of a test
reflects what is currently being taught in the under-
graduate curriculum.
After a new edition of a Subject Test is first adminis-
tered, examinees’ responses to each test question are
analyzed in a variety of ways to determine whether
each question functioned as expected. These analyses
may reveal that a question is ambiguous, requires
knowledge beyond the scope of the test, or is inappro-
priate for the total group or a particular subgroup of
examinees taking the test. Answers to such questions
are not used in computing scores.
Following this analysis, the new test edition is
equated to an existing test edition. In the equating
process, statistical methods are used to assess the
difficulty of the new test. Then scores are adjusted so
that examinees who took a difficult edition of the test
are not penalized, and examinees who took an easier
edition of the test do not have an advantage. Varia-
tions in the number of questions in the different
editions of the test are also taken into account in
this process.
Scores on the Subject Tests are reported as three-
digit scaled scores with the third digit always zero.
The maximum possible range for all Subject Test total
scores is from 200 to 990. The actual range of scores for
a particular Subject Test, however, may be smaller. The
maximum possible range of Subject Test subscores is
20 to 99; however, the actual range of subscores for
any test or test edition may be smaller than 20 to 99.
Subject Test score interpretive information is provided
in
Interpreting Your GRE Scores,
which you will receive
with your GRE score report, and on the GRE Web site
at www.gre.org/codelst.html.
Content of the
Psychology Test
Most editions of the test consist of about 215 multiple-
choice questions. Each question in the test has five
options from which the examinee is to select the one
option that is the correct or best answer to the ques-
tion. Some of the stimulus materials, such as a descrip-
tion of an experiment or a graph, may serve as the
basis for several questions.
The questions in the Psychology Test are drawn
from courses of study most commonly offered at
the undergraduate level within the broadly defined
field of psychology. Questions may require recalling
factual information, analyzing relationships, applying
principles, drawing conclusions from data, evaluating
a research design, and/or identifying a psychologist
who has made a theoretical or research contribution
to the field.
The Psychology Test yields two subscores in
addition to the total score. Although the test offers
only two subscores, there are questions in three
content categories:
1. 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.
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2. 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.
3. 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.
The questions on which subscores are based are
distributed throughout the test; they are not set aside
and labeled separately, although several questions from
a single content area may appear consecutively.
Test-Taking Strategies
The questions in the practice test in this book illus-
trate the types of multiple-choice questions in the test.
When you take the test, you will mark your answers on
a separate machine-scorable answer sheet. Total testing
time is two hours and fifty minutes; there are no
separately timed sections. Following are some general
test-taking strategies you may want to consider.
Read the test directions carefully, and work as
rapidly as you can without being careless. For
each question, choose the best answer from the
available options.
All questions are of equal value; do not waste
time pondering individual questions you find
extremely difficult or unfamiliar.
You may want to work through the test quite
rapidly, first answering only the questions about
which you feel confident, then going back and
answering questions that require more thought,
and concluding with the most difficult questions
if there is time.
If you decide to change an answer, make sure
you completely erase it and fill in the oval
corresponding to your desired answer.
Questions for which you mark no answer or more
than one answer are not counted in scoring.
As a correction for haphazard guessing, one-
fourth of the number of questions you answer
incorrectly is subtracted from the number of
questions you answer correctly. It is improbable
that mere guessing will improve your score
significantly; it may even lower your score.
If, however, you are not certain of the correct
answer but have some knowledge of the question
and are able to eliminate one or more of the
answer choices, your chance of getting the right
answer is improved, and it may be to your advan-
tage to answer the question.
Record all answers on your answer sheet.
Answers recorded in your test book will not
be counted.
Do not wait until the last five minutes of a
testing session to record answers on your
answer sheet.
Preparing for a Subject Test
GRE Subject Test questions are designed to measure
skills and knowledge gained over a long period of time.
Although you might increase your scores to some
extent through preparation a few weeks or months
before you take the test, last-minute cramming is
unlikely to be of further help. The following informa-
tion may be helpful.
A general review of your college courses is
probably the best preparation for the test. How-
ever, the test covers a broad range of subject
matter, and no one is expected to be familiar
with the content of every question.
Use this practice book to become familiar
with the types of questions in the GRE
Psychology Test, paying special attention to the
directions. If you thoroughly understand the
directions before you take the test, you will
have more time during the test to focus on the
questions themselves.
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