Do you want to appear for the revised GRE general test this year? Here are some faqs, facts, and tips that you should think about before you get cracking.
1. How do you register?
To register for the revised GRE general test go to http://www.ets.org/gre/revised_general/register/ The test will launch on August 1, and Indian students are encouraged to learn more about it. Make sure you register early and get your preferred date and location for the test.
2. Should you take the revised GRE general test or the current GRE general test?
To make a decision about this, it is important to know when you need your test score. This will help you to decide on which of the two it is that you should take.
Remember to pay close attention to your application deadline. If you need your score report before November, make sure you take the current GRE general test before August. If you don't need it till after November, you can take the revised GRE general test after August. Check the special score reporting schedule http://www.ets.org/gre/revised_general/scores/get to see which option is right for you.
3. Get a 50 per cent discount on the revised GRE general test, by taking it in August or September 2011 itself.
ETS is offering a limited-time 50% discount to all students who take the GRE revised general test between August 1 and September 30, 2011. Scores will be sent to you by mid-November. Seats will fill up quickly during the special 50 per cent discount period, so it is advised that you register for the GRE revised general test soon.
4. What is different about the revised GRE general test?
The GRE revised general test will include new types of questions and new design features, making it more user-friendly. Featuring advanced technology that lets test takers move back and forth, edit and change answers, skip and return to questions, all within a section, you can now have the freedom to use more of your own strategies and styles. There are also new answer formats such as highlighting a sentence in a passage, selecting multiple correct answer choices and entering numeric answers in a box, rather than having to select from a list.
5. There is also a difference in the test questions.
The verbal and quantitative reasoning questions have been improvised in order to reflect more closely the thinking needed in today's demanding graduate and business school programs.
New types of questions in the verbal reasoning section better measure your ability to understand what you've read and how you apply your reasoning skills. Plus, antonyms and analogies are no longer on the test, so there aren't questions that test vocabulary out of context.
New types of questions in the quantitative reasoning section puts more emphasis on data interpretation and real-life scenarios. You'll also have an on-screen calculator.
6. The verbal reasoning and quantitative reasoning sections of the GRE revised general test will now be scored on a scale of 130170.
The new score scale will
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