PETS三级写作常为160-200个词左右的短文，文章难易程度适中，对于文章的文体，语言等要求较高，考生在写作时，要注意审请题目，抓住作文题目的核心重点，围绕着题目展开写作，考生在组织文章时要注意思路清晰，语言准确，句子完整，避免出现语法错误，另外，在写作，要尽量运用连词，如However，Nevertheless等，还要尽量运用谚语，如Every coin has two sides， More practice，more benefit，这样会增加作文的写作色彩，从而提高作文的得分。
作文考试的文体常分为四类:议论文;说明文;记叙文;描写性作文。下面分别分析以上四类文章:
(三)记叙文
记叙文是阐述一件事情的发生、发展、起因、高潮，以及结果的文章，对于它的写作最重要的是把文章的思路屡清，把事情的读者介绍清楚，特别注意时间、地点、人物的变化。
下面以一篇习作来看看这种文章的写作。
An Unforgettable Test
Last Sunday，I took the GRE. It was the longest test I had ever taken. I entered the examination room at eight o’clock and did not come out until twelve. For the first hour I sat there waiting anxiously for the proctor to give out the paper. Then the exam officially began. I saw nothing but the test paper. How time flew. I did one section after another. The test was over without my knowing it.
Earlier I had taken many tests，yet at no test did I feel time so limited as this one. Usually there is plenty of time for me to go over what I have written when I finish the test. I would sit there waiting restlessly for the test to be over.
But this time，it took me over twenty minutes to have finished the two sections on math at a much slower speed than usual. God bless me. I wish I had been careful enough this time.
At noon，someone came over to talk with me about the test，which put me in doubt of whether or not I had put the number of my test certificate right on the answer sheet. I was sure I filled in the number，but I did not remember whether or not I had circled the corresponding number under it.
However，maybe all of my efforts are not made in vain. It would be terrible if I got no grades after working so hard.
【译文】 难忘的考试
上星期天，我参加了GRE考试。这次考试是我考得最久的一次。8点钟进考场，一直到12点多才出来。刚开始1个小时，我急不可耐地坐等发卷子。正式开考后，只觉得时间飞逝。哗一下，一部分做完了;哗，又另一部分做完了，不知不觉中考试完了。
以前，从没有哪次考试像这次一样时间扣得如此的紧。通常，我都是较快做完，并用大量时间复查，坐在那儿等时间过去，等得很着急。 这次考试，仅数学的两个部分，我就花了20多分钟，大大慢于平时练习的速度。老天保佑，但愿我这次够细心!
今天中午，来了个人与我聊起考试的事情，结果使我怀疑起我是否 把准考证号码正确地填在答题纸上。填肯定是填过的，可是我记不清是否划过圈了。
真糟糕!别辛苦了一场，连成绩都没有，那就惨了。
