This section consists of two separately timed writing tasks, Analyze an Issue and Analyze an Argument, in that order. Standard timing for this section is as follows.

• Analyze an Issue task - 30 minutes
• Analyze an Argument task - 30 minutes

Each task has its own timer. The timer displays the time remaining for that task.

Important Notice

Your essay responses on the Analytical Writing section will be reviewed by 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 graduate schools and universities, your essay response should represent your original work. ETS reserves the right to cancel test scores of any of any test taker when an essay response includes, but is not limited to, any of the following:

• text that is substantially similar to that found in one or more other test essay responses;
• quoting or paraphrasing, without attribution, language that appears in published or unpublished sources; including sources from the Internet and/or sources provided by any third party;
• 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 preceding circumstances occurs, ETS may conclude, in its professional judgment, that the essay response does not reflect the independent writing skills that this test seeks to measure. When ETS reaches that conclusion, it cancels the Analytical Writing score, and because Analytical Writing scores are an integral part of the GRE General Test scores, those scores are canceled as well.

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