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Education in modern times has become an asset that an individual must always seek to embellish. In order to pursue higher studies in American universities, expatriate students undertake a common entrance test, the Graduate Record Examination (GRE). It is conducted to ascertain candidates’ eligibility for pursuing a Master’s or Ph.D. programme in American universities, details of which are given below.

The Educational Testing Service (ETS), Princeton, New Jersey, conducts this examination. Students seeking admission to Graduate Schools, Professional Colleges and Fellowship Competitions are required to succeed in this test. The GRE score, the candidate’s undergraduate records and recommendations are used as the criteria for admission to graduate schools and sponsoring of fellowships.

Academic Eligibility

The candidates must be graduates or be expecting results in time for the GRE test.

The GRE Tests

The following tests are offered:

(i) General Test: Verbal, Quantitative and Analytical Skills of the candidates are assessed through this test. These skills that are not related to any particular period of study and will have been developed over a long period of time. The Verbal skill set is ascertained through Analogies, Antonyms, Sentence Completions and Reading Comprehension. The Quantitative Ability is measured through Quantitative Comparison, Discrete Quantitative and Data Interpretation. The candidate’s Analytical Ability is gauged through Analytical and Logical Reasoning. The General Test is offered in both a computer-based format and a paper-based format.

(ii) Subject Tests: This is to find out the candidate’s proficiency in a particular subject that could be an undergraduate major or an area in which the candidate has extensive knowledge. These tests are paper-based only and are given in 14 subject areas.

(iii) Writing Assessment: Introduced in 1999, this test is independent of the GRE General and Subject Tests. There are two analytical writing tasks involved, namely

1. Present your Perspective on an Issue - This 45-minute exercise requires the candidate to address a general issue from any perspective and present his / her views. The candidate may choose one out of two topics chosen by the computer from yet another huge collection of subjects.
2. Analyze an Argument - A different challenge altogether, the candidate has to present in 30 minutes a critique on an argument and provide supporting reasons. The two tasks are complementary, as one requires constructing an argument about an issue and the other entails presenting a critique on another’s argument. The Writing Assessment test is offered online year-round as a separate test available at all ETS authorized Computer-based Testing (CBT) centres.

Computer-based Testing (General Test)

This computer-adaptive test has been developed to get precise information about the candidate’s abilities. Fewer questions are asked in this modified test but the same content of the paper-based General Test is covered through same question-types. The test commences with questions of average difficulty. The computer chooses the next question based upon the candidate’s score of the preceding answer. Therefore, the choice of the ensuing question depends upon the candidate’s performance in the previous questions. It is mandatory that each question is answered before moving ahead and the answer once entered cannot be altered.

The test requires basic computer skills. Two hours and fifteen minutes out of four hours and thirty minutes is allotted for the test, the remaining time is for the Tutorials, background questions etc.

Application Procedure

The computer-based General Test is conducted during the first three-weeks of each month throughout the year on a first-come first-served basis.

Students may contact the following centre for registrations:
Sylvan Testing Services Pvt. Ltd.
I Floor, Arcon Plaza 21,
LSC Pushpa Vihar,
Madangir
New Delhi - 110062
Tel: 2699-0637
Fax: 2699-7103.

When applicants take the revised GRE General Test in 2007, they’ll take a longer test that has been revised to better focus on skills that are necessary for success in graduate school.

The new test will last about 4 hours and 10 minutes and contain seven sections. The Verbal Reasoning measure will feature two 40-minute sections instead of the single 30-minute section in the current General Test. The Quantitative Reasoning measure will feature two 40-minute sections instead of the single 45-minute section in the current test. The Analytical Writing measure will feature 30-minute Issue and Argument tasks instead of the 45-minute Issue and 30-minute Argument task in the current test. A seventh section will be either a pretest section or research section and will not count toward an individual’s score.

“The test length for both the Verbal and Quantitative sections has increased because the sections are changing from computer-adaptive tests, where the questions presented to each examinee vary according to his or her performance, to linear tests, where all examinees testing at the same time receive the same questions.” said Dawn Piacentino, Associate Director of GRE Client Relations in ETS’s Higher Education Division. “Linear tests allow for minimal reuse of test questions and this greatly enhances test security.”

Pretest and Research Sections

Questions in the unidentified pretest section are either being pretested for possible use in future tests or being used to ensure that scores on new editions of the test are comparable with scores on earlier test editions.

Some test takers may be presented with a clearly identified research section in place of the pretest section. The research questions are designed to help ETS researchers make improvements to the test in the future.

Section Order

The Analytical Writing Sections will always be first in the test. The Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning Sections and the pretest section may appear in any order following the Analytical Writing Sections. If a research section is included in the test, it will always be clearly identified and the last section. Directions at the beginning of each section specify the total number of questions in that particular section and the time allotted to answer them.

A Typical Revised GRE General Test

The chart below shows a typical revised GRE General Test:

* An unidentified pretest section that does not count toward a score may be included and may appear in any order after the Analytical Writing Sections.
** An identified research section that is not scored may be included and it will always be at the end of the test.

Scoring Pattern

OLD: Verbal Score 200 to 800 points
NEW: Verbal Score 130 to 170 points

OLD: Quantitative Score 200 to 800 points
NEW: Quantitative Score 130 to 170 points

OLD: Analytical Writing Assessment 0 to 6 points
NEW: Critical Thinking and Analytical Writing Assessment 0 to 6 points

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As present on the ETS Website the notification for change in the exam pattern is as follows…

ETS has cancelled plans to launch the revised Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) General Test. The decision was made in consultation with the Executive Committee of the GRE Board.

While ETS and the Board remain committed to improving the test, on balance, GRE officials said they believe problems guaranteeing complete access to the new Internet-based test outweighed the benefits of immediately moving to the new format.

ETS originally planned to launch the revised GRE General Test worldwide in September. Instead, the company will continue to offer the test worldwide in its current computer-based, continuous testing format. Registrations in India, China and Japan, which had been closed, will be reopened in the near future to accommodate application deadlines. Likewise, registrations for the current GRE General Test will continue elsewhere.

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