The ScoreItNow!™ Online Writing Practice service is a web-based tool that can help you sharpen your analytical writing skills and prepare for the Analytical Writing section of the GRE General Test administered on or after September 22, 2023. Using ETS’s patented e-rater® technology, the automated scoring system provides immediate essay scoring in a confidential, risk-free environment.

This service lets you:

Respond to two GRE Analytical Writing topics created and tested by ETS test authors.
Submit your responses online and get immediate scores on your responses from ETS's e-rater automated scoring system.
Review scored sample essay responses on the topics you select.
Review general suggestions for improving your writing skills.
Receive diagnostic feedback on your responses.

Plus, six bonus topics are available: After you have submitted two essay responses for scoring, you will have the additional option to write and submit essay responses on six FREE bonus topics for more practice. You will receive a score on each essay response that you submit on these bonus topics.

The service contains two options from which you can select: the Practice Option and the Test Experience Option.

Practice Option:

Write responses offline.
You choose the topics on which you will write.
At any time, you can save your work and exit the ScoreItNow! system, and come back later to complete your essay response.
Receive a score for each essay response submitted.

Test Experience Option:

Write responses online in a 30-minute timed test using the same word processing features as in the actual GRE General Test.
Each test will select the topic on which you will write.
Receive a score for each essay response submitted.

After you have submitted your essay response(s) for scoring, you will receive feedback that will help to improve your writing.

Feedback includes:

Scoring guide text for each of the scores you receive.
A score level description for each Analytical Writing score you receive.
Scored sample essay responses with rater commentary for each of the two topics on which you submitted responses.
Diagnostic information.

You may purchase additional topics with scored sample essay responses and rater commentary in multiples of two and submit responses anytime within six months from the date of purchase.

NOTE: Although performance on ScoreItNow! essay topics is not an exact predictor of how you might perform on the GRE Analytical Writing measure during an actual GRE General Test administration, you are encouraged to write the ScoreItNow! essay responses under timed conditions to get a better sense of how you might perform on the actual test.

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