Fantastic news for those of you looking to [info:'gre-exam' write the GRE] in 2011. To promote the release of the GRE Revised General Test, ETS will be offering a 50% discount on the test fee to all those who take the test between August 1 and September 30, 2011.
This GRE revision has literally been years in the making and ETS officials are confident that it will be a success among students. “We know students are going to find the overall testing experience better with the introduction of the GRE revised General Test,” says David G. Payne, VP and COO for College and Graduate Programs at ETS. “The questions more closely reflect the kind of thinking they’ll need to do in graduate and business school, and the new test taker-friendly navigation features allow them to use more of their traditional test-taking strategies. These are really big changes that will appeal to test takers. In addition to these enhancements, we think the 50-percent discount will encourage more students to take the GRE revised General Test sooner, so students themselves can tell other students about their positive experiences.”
The GRE revised General Test will deliver many new features when it is introduced, including:
- More “real-life” scenario questions to better reflect the kind of thinking students will do in today’s demanding graduate and business school programs
- Less reliance on vocabulary out of context, more emphasis on reading, completely removing antonyms and analogies
- Many new navigation features, including the ability to skip questions and go back to them later within a section for a better test-taking experience
- New answer types, such as filling in a number or providing more than one response when asked, so students can better demonstrate what they know
- An on-screen calculator for the Quantitative Reasoning section*
“We are expecting the GRE revised General Test to be quite popular when it is introduced,” says Payne. “Registration for the GRE revised General Test will open on March 15, 2011, so individuals interested in receiving the 50-percent discount should register early for a testing date between August 1 and September 30, 2011, to ensure they can take advantage of the special limited-time offer. This is big news for test takers, so we expect word to spread quickly.”
There is, however, a word of caution delivered with this news. Individuals taking the GRE revised General Test in August or September 2011 will receive score reports starting in November 2011, as extra time will be needed for the statistical work necessary when launching a new test. Normal score reporting of 10 – 15 days will resume in December 2011 and so any student who needs test scores before November 2011 should take the current GRE General Test.
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