Starting Aug. 1, all graduate school applicants will be required to take the new and revised version of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), which test makers expect will more accurately assess candidates for graduate school.
“Come Aug. 1, the GRE is going to undergo the most dramatic changes in the history of the test,” said Lei Weiss, director of graduate programs at Kaplan testing services. “Every aspect of the test is changing — from the length of the test, to the questions, the scoring scale, the type of test, the user interface — it’s all going to change.”
Graduate programs have said that some of the current GRE questions don’t do the best job of testing students, Weiss said. Education Testing Services (ETS), who makes the test, is replacing those questions with higher level reasoning questions.
Maiesha Kiburi, academic success specialist and pre-grad adviser at UC Davis, said that another reason for the changes is to have a test that more closely resembles the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) – the admissions test widely used by business schools.
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