"Plans for Revamped G.R.E. Are Abandoned"

After spending four years and $12 million on research, the Educational Testing Service has abandoned plans to introduce a revamped Graduate Record Exam this fall.

The new version, planned to be the biggest overhaul in the test’s history, was designed to prevent cheating and to produce a more accurate measure of students’ ability. But it would have been longer, more expensive and more difficult to administer.

It included revised sections on verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning and analytical writing, totaling four hours in length. The current version is two and a half hours.

Dear readers I did finally buy a GRE study guide about 3 weeks ago. I've cracked it open, read the intro sections and planned on starting to really study near the end of April for a summer test date. I felt under the gun...do I take the shorter test? Do I take the test without analogies? Do I take both and hope for the best? I feel a tad sad that I won't have that choice, but also glad that I won't have to make that choice.

I guess now it's just a matter of me actually studying, eh?

Labels: phd