GRE exam revision coming August 2011

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Coming in August 2011, the revised GRE

http://www.ets.org/gre/revised_general/faq/

The new format is supposed to be about 3 hours and 45 minutes long. Good heavens!

I do like the part about being able to skip back and forth between the quantitative questions, though. I think the adaptive format psyched a lot of people out.

Note: I'll probably never take this test. Just curious what others think about the overhaul of the exam.
 

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Back in the day, you took the General in the morning and the Subject in the afternoon. That was a long, long day!

No more analogies? No more "Dixie cup is to fuse box as communism is to ____"?
 
So glad I took this thing before they introduced an essay section. It was really easy, I guess too easy.
 
Vanadium 50 said:
Back in the day, you took the General in the morning and the Subject in the afternoon. That was a long, long day!

I have the greatest admiration for anyone who could get through that. My brain would overheat.

No more analogies? No more "Dixie cup is to fuse box as communism is to ____"?
Trombone. :smile:

jbunniii said:
So glad I took this thing before they introduced an essay section. It was really easy, I guess too easy.

You lucked out. I expect the aim of ETS is just to make the GRE harder and harder, and 20 years from now there will be a gymnastics component. :smile:
 
I took the GRE the first offering after they switched to the adaptive with the essay. It was daunting. I did much better on the essays than I thought I would, but much worse on the vocabulary. Every time I got a vocab word correct, the next one was completely inane. And god forbid I guessed a second one correct... just horrible.

The inability to change answers and go back made me insane. I am glad they changed that.
 
Vanadium 50 said:
Back in the day, you took the General in the morning and the Subject in the afternoon. That was a long, long day!
I did that twice, both at a time when there was a logic section. Since when was the logic section replaced with a writing section?

I also took multiple Praxis tests in a single day (it may have been the two Praxis II tests for math), but I don't remember that day being as long as it was taking 2 GRE's in a day.
 
eumyang said:
I did that twice, both at a time when there was a logic section. Since when was the logic section replaced with a writing section?


In 2002 I believe. I was banking on the logic section... oh was I surprised.
 
I am glad I don't have to take the GRE ever again ! :biggrin:

What a waste of time! and money!
 
Math Is Hard said:
...there will be a gymnastics component.
Followed by 5 rounds in the cage with George St. Pierre.

I am curious, does any sane person just plainly refuse to go along with this charade and apply to Grad School without it?
 
Cyclovenom said:
I am glad I don't have to take the GRE ever again ! :biggrin:

What a waste of time! and money!

Yup, I wasted three months on the GREs,, time that could have been spent on studying more valuable things..
 
Sankaku said:
Followed by 5 rounds in the cage with George St. Pierre.
:smile:

I am curious, does any sane person just plainly refuse to go along with this charade and apply to Grad School without it?

I think resistance would be futile. At least there are still some programs that don't require GRE for admission.