GRE-ETS royally screws-up and no one mentioned it or did I miss this?

[GiantSteps]

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I am nonplussed. 😕 Nothing gets by SDNers. I thought I have been closely following all threads on SDN Clinical Psychology but I can't believe no one posted about ETS-GRE abandoning, at least for now, its plans for a newly structured test.

http://www.ets.org/portal/site/ets/...nnel=dd2d253b164f4010VgnVCM10000022f95190RCRD

Someone must have posted this and I missed it right? It is dated April 2, 2007 but there no longer seems to be access to threads which are that old. I definitely remember people arguing the pros and cons of taking the current test vs. taking what was supposed to be the new one but I never heard this was all being cancelled.

Am I suffering from Rip Van Winkle syndrome? 😴 What is going on here? Well, at least I know for a fact the the Cleveland Cavaliers will be playing in the NBA championship! http://www.cleveland.com/photooftheday/

Hey, that is a good way to study for the GRE verbal test and I am sure no one mentioned it! Read Washington Irving's Sketch Book in its entirety! Irving was fond of using as many long Latin derived words as possible, so as long as one looks all of them up, one can not help but boost his/her vocabularly. Of course, you also run the risk of falling asleep under a tree while reading Irving and waking up 100 years later to discover that you missed the GRE test and your chance for graduate school! I did that in high school to prepare for the SAT verbal and it worked pretty well.

 

[JockNerd]

Posts were made regarding this! Look back on the forums-- I think the posts started prettymuch the day after it was announced (I don't remember who broke it).

Good, I say. I did the experimental math section and it was HARD (although obviously I hadn't studied for that type of test...).

 

[JockNerd]

Here it is!

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/archive/index.php/t-387012.html

 

[Therapist4Chnge]

I remember this...because two people started a thread within a minute or two of each other....word travels fast!!

-t

 

[psychwanabe]

yup - I was one of them because I was thinking of retaking it at that time and I jumped for joy and needed to share! 😀

 

[medapple]

When is the new GRE General going to be introduced?

I wrote the GRE in 2006, and did well. I didn't get in where I wanted, so I'm doing a Masters for two years (2007-2009). If I apply for 2009 entry, can I still use my 2006 scores?

If in the meantime, let's say 2008 or 2009, they do introduce the new GRE, will I have to retake that??? I thought GREs are good for 5 years, meaning that the latest I can apply with my 2006 scores is 2011 entry (please let me know if that's correct).

Thanks!

 

[JockNerd]

medapple-- this thread is about the new GRE being cancelled! 🙂 There will be no format change. Yay!

ETS says that scores are "good" for five years (I totally don't understand that. Do GRE scores "go bad" after a few years? Material on the test covers theories from 100 years ago!). However, check the web sites of schools you're applying to! I noticed on the websites of a few schools I was looking at that they wanted GREs that were written within the last year.

 

[medapple]

Hey thanks,

What I mean is, I understand they cancelled the new test this year, but if they push it back to 2008, will I have to write the new test?

By the way, which tier schools required recent scores? Are these the top 50 schools?

Also, a general question to anyone: If I wait till 2009, will I probably need to retake the GRE? That would be really really aweful.

 

[JockNerd]

Hey thanks,

What I mean is, I understand they cancelled the new test this year, but if they push it back to 2008, will I have to write the new test?

By the way, which tier schools required recent scores? Are these the top 50 schools?

Also, a general question to anyone: If I wait till 2009, will I probably need to retake the GRE? That would be really really aweful.

It isn't a one-year pushback. It's cancelled. As in, they're not doing it at all, ever, until they all plan a whole new GRE maybe a decade from now.🙂 At least as far as I know! If I'm wrong send me a link to a site where they say there are still plans to implement it in 2008!

I had written my GREs within a year of my applications, so I really just said "that's weird" to myself and kept looking when I saw that one school wanted tests written in the past year. I'm pretty sure I saw that twice. I didn't take note of what schools they were. The schools were at least half-decent and would have been fully funded (as fully funded schools were my only option).

(I kind of want to say it was George Mason though.)