GRE revised General Test Launched

Updated on: Wednesday, August 03, 2011

The most significant change in the GRE Program’s 60-year history is the new test, which has already earned praises from the graduate and business school community and, in its first day, received rave reviews from test takers worldwide as well. "It is a great improvement over the older version; it is what students want," said Nakul Vyas, a GRE test taker in Mumbai, India.

"Moving back and forth is a pleasure and gives you flexibility," says Lindsey Todd, a GRE test taker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Being able to flag questions and go back to them in the review section is really convenient because one is not always sure about all questions.

With new questions, a new score scale and a new test-taker friendly design, the GRE revised General Test offers applicants a friendlier, more technically advanced test that is designed to provide graduate and business schools with even more reliable results. With the freedom to move back and forth, edit or change answers, and skip and return to questions, all within a section, candidates have the ability to use more of their own test-taking strategies. New questions emphasise real-world scenarios and there is less reliance on vocabulary out of context, adding to the appeal of the revised test. The new Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning score scale, from 130–170 in one-point increments, will enable admission professionals to better compare candidates’ scores as it makes small differences in scoring look small, while bigger differences will continue to stand out.

The GRE revised General Test is the most widely-accepted and accessible graduate admissions test in the world. Today, GRE scores are used by thousands of graduate and business school programmes worldwide, including more than 600 MBA programmes. Each year prospective graduate and business school applicants from 230 countries and regions take the test.

To register for the GRE revised General Test, visit

http://www.ets.org/gre/revised_general/register/

. Prospective test takers registering to take the GRE revised General Test in August or September 2011 will receive a 50 per cent discount on their test fee. For more information and resources for prospective test takers visit

www.ets.org/gre

. Institutions that use GRE scores can find additional information about the GRE revised General Test at

www.ets.org/gre/institutions

GRE revised General Test Launched

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