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Changes to the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) test originally
scheduled for release in October 2006 have been pushed back to October
2007 because the Educational Testing Service (ETS) needs more time to
implement them.
“ETS decided to put this off because logistically they were
unable to handle a change of this significance,” said Matthew S.
Fidler, a GRE programming manager at Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, a
test preparation company. “The new test will be an hour and a half
longer, there will be different question types and content areas, and
the test will be more expensive to take.”
In addition to these changes, the test—which is used in
graduate school admissions—will be offered on fixed dates instead of
continuously, it will be given through an Internet-based system in more
locations worldwide, and the test will be administered so that each
test-taker on a given date receives the same questions.
In the test’s current computer-based version, the difficulty
of a given question is determined by whether or not the previous
question was answered correctly, according to an article in The
Chronicle of Higher Education.
Fidler said that those taking the new test will have more
time to prepare for the changes, and that the delay in releasing the
new test will work to the advantage of students planning to take the
GRE in the next year.
“Pushing back the changes is a benefit to students,” Fidler
said. “Students have an extra year to take an exam that they are
familiar with.”
—DINA GUZOVSKY
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