GRE 2011 General Test

New GRE Coming 2011...

It’s been a long time coming. In 2004 GRE announced changes to take effect in 2006. In 2006 they announced the changes were to take place in 2007. In 2007 the proposed  changes to the GRE were cancelled.

Now GRE has annouced a revised GRE to take effect in 2011.  The information from GRE includes a “slick video”.  It appears that the changes  are going to be  pretty much the same as the changes  which were proposed for  2007.

New GRE Highlights – The Three Sections:  Verbal, Quantitative and Analytical  Writing Remain

Verbal Changes

- no more  antonyms and analogies and a statement that vocabulary will no longer be tested;

- more  reading and reasoning questions

-Grading scale from 130 to 170

Quantitative Changes

- calculators allowed

- questions that test reasoning skills and not  memorization (does that mean that the basic math formulas will become irrelevant?

Analytical  Writing Changes

- less clear

General  Test Changes

- the scoring scale  will be changed to a 130 – 170 scoring scale

- test takers are no longer required  to answer the questions  in order (presumably the test will not be computer adaptive)