Why change In GRE postponed until 2007
The ETS, which contemplating the change in GRE, even
announced the date of implementation once again given the relief
of shy to the students by delaying its implementation for
exactly a year. The highly anticipated and complex changes to
the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) will begin in October 2007
rather than October 2006, a whole year later in the fall of
2007, company officials announce last week.
Another wave of changes has swept over the Graduate Record
Examination according to the Educational Testing Service, which,
beginning in October 2006 delayed until October 2007, will
affect the approximately 400,000 U.S. students who take the test
annually. "It will undergo its biggest overhaul from October
2007 in the 57 years of GRE history. ETS believes the delay will
better serve test takers and graduate institutions across the
country as ETS transitions from the current computer- and
paper-based forms of the test to the new Internet-based (iBT)
version.
"The higher education and graduate communities are excited about
the revised GRE," explains Mari Pearlman, Senior Vice President
of ETS's Higher Education Division. "They worked with us to
create this revised test, and they are looking forward to using
this test. The new launch schedule will enable us to complete
the expansion of our Internet-based testing operations
worldwide."
The change was announced last year, but details have not been
released until now. These changes will impact important aspects
of the test such as score range; the type of questions asked how
the officials will evaluate the scores, and more.
Madeline Hamblin, director of the Office of Graduate Affairs at
the University, said that the delay was sensible. "I think it
was a good move," she said. "It would not be wise to start a new
test before test centers were set up."
Test development, design and field testing will continue for
the new GRE test. The new iBT delivery platform is already being
used to deliver the innovative new Test of English as a Foreign
Language