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
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)
Bottom Line
It appears that the revised GRE of 2011 will incorporate most of the changes that were proposed to take effect in 2011. Check out our comments about the 2007 GRE – it appears that most of them still apply.
The competition between GMAT and GRE is heating up. GMAT has recently announced a “Next Generation GMAT” to take effect in 2013. Stay tuned!
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plzz give me some more details of this exam///
The details are slow in coming. Please keep checking back on this blog – we will try to keep it up-to-date.
But, the changes will be very similar to what is here:
http://www.prep.com/October2006gre/index.html
i need GRE exam dates in the year 2011.please send me the details.and also i need the gre syllabus for 2011.
i want more detail about this changed pattern
is barrons enuf or shud we refer any other book??
No third party book is ever enough. It is essential that your preparation includes the material that comes directly from GRE. For example:
Hope this helps.
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For the old syllabus 4000 words was the min requirement … Have they increased the number of words for the new pattern ???
Not sure why you would ask that question. The clear intent of the Revised GRE is to NOT test vocabulary. That does not mean that every test taker will know every word. It’s interesting that Globish (or “English Lite”) is a version of English that is based on a 1500 word vocabulary. Yet, Globish includes words that are not know to everyone.
http://globishblog.wordpress.com
Although the Revised GRE is NOT to test vocabulary, it does assume that that test takers come to the GRE with a vocabulary that is sufficient for graduate studies.
please for the courses that were removed is there a replacement for them? and please can i receive the new syllabus through my mail box. ladereigns@yahoo.co.uk.