Category: GRE Analyze an Issue Task

  • GRE Issue Essay: Strategies + 8 Real Student Essays with Scores

    When you sit down at the computer on test day, the very first thing that you’ll encounter is the GRE Issue essay, which is part of GRE Analytical Writing. For a lot of test-takers, this is the point at which they freeze. But not you! In this article, Magoosh’s experts will guide you through the…

  • GRE Essay Topics

    GRE Essay Topics

    The GRE Analytical Writing essay topics, including the ones on the Issue task, come such from such wide a variety of fields that there seems to be no discernible pattern in the GRE writing prompts we’ve seen. There are cities cracking down on garbage collection; debates on term limits for leaders; pontification about job training;…

  • GRE Claim and Reason Issue Essay

    We’re going to explore one type of question, claim and reason, from the GRE Issue bank, which is about how teachers should specifically design courses for the interests of their students since doing so makes them motivated learners. If you have been diligently at work writing practice essays from our list of GRE writing prompts,…

  • AWA Issue Sample Topic: Setting Up Pro and Con Points

    Our GRE expert breaks down a prompt from the GRE Issue task, including brainstorming and coming up with pros and cons of each side.

  • Mock AWA Issue Essay

    Today, we’ll be looking at a mock AWA Issue essay. In a previous post, where I brainstormed ideas on a sample topic, I mentioned I would write a mock essay using those ideas. The prompt we’re going to look at is the 7th one from the ETS pool of issue topics (which begins with “In…

  • AWA Issue Task Step 1: Brainstorming

    For many, the Issue essay is tough. In a short 30 minutes, you are expected to come up with a persuasive essay on a topic you may know little about. And your readers aren’t your peers (who would probably be somewhat lenient in any omissions in logic). Instead, the GRE test graders are standing by,…