Revisions to the Computer-based GRE General Test in 2008
Princeton, N.J. (December
21, 2007) —Beginning in January 2008, the GRE Program will begin
including reformatted reading passages in the Verbal Reasoning section of
the computer-based GRE® General Test. Currently, reading passages
accompanying Reading Comprehension questions contain line numbers that
reference specific parts of the passages. Those line numbers will be
replaced with highlighting when necessary in order to focus the test taker
on specific information in the passage.
The reformatted question types are part of the continuing improvements to
the General Test. During this time, test takers may encounter both formats
in their tests.
"We believe the new format will help students more easily find the
pertinent information in reading passages," explains David Payne, Associate
Vice President in ETS’s Higher Education Division. "The GRE Program will
begin counting these question types toward examinee scores as soon as an
adequate sample of data from the operational testing environment is
available."
In November 2007, two new question types were included in the Verbal
Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning sections of the computer-based GRE®
General Test.
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