Starting October 2006, the Graduate Record Exam will change dramatically, affecting nearly 500,000 prospective graduate school students around the world.
Because of the significant revisions the test will undergo, The Princeton Review urged students who are able to take the exam before October 2006.
Alterations to the GRE include the following.
• The new GRE will be administered as a computer-based, linear exam, rather than as a Computer Adaptive Test, which was the format previously.
• The Educational Testing Service will revise the content of each of the three test sections: Analytical Writing, Verbal and Quantitative.
• The GRE will be delivered via the Internet to nationwide testing centers. Everyone who takes the test on a given day will answer the same questions.
• The GRE will only be offered on 30 fixed dates, rather than continuously throughout the year.
• The new exam will be four hours long, rather than the present two and a half hours.
• The scoring scales will change. The Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA) scale will still be from 0-to-6, but the Quantitative and Verbal scores will be on a scale of 120-to-170.
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