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Next October ETS is rolling out a
\n
\nnew and improved GRE<\/a> (via<\/a>). 
\nAllow me to break it down for you.<\/p>\n

The press release tells us this: Old GRE < New GRE<\/p>\n

The soon-to-be-former GRE ran 2.5 hours split out like so:
\nVerbal 30 minutes
\nQuantitative 45 minutes
\nWriting 75 minutes
\n(These are approximations pieced together from what few clues I could gather.)<\/p>\n

The new and improved GRE will run just about 4 hours split out this way:
\nVerbal 80 minutes (2×40)
\nQuantitative 80 minutes (2×40)
\nWriting 60 minutes (2×30)<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The new test will move completely online; it will be offered just 29 times
\nper year with fresh content, nothing duplicated from previous tests, and so on. 
\nThursday’s press release credits David Payne, ETS’s Director of the GRE Program,
\nwith this: "The new test will emphasize complex reasoning skills that are
\nclosely aligned to graduate work."  How should we read the justificatory
\nfilling of the release against the redistributed minutes-on-task?  And how
\nwill the 70+ doctorate-granting programs in rhetoric and composition respond? 
\nWill the GRE continue to play its time-honored role in admission to any of these
\nprograms?  What other questions?<\/p>\n

Notably, the 30-minute analytical "essays" will now be visible to the graduate
\nadmissions side.  How will these writing samples be
\nunderstood\/interpreted\/used by various programs?  And when will the writing
\nopportunity come up in the 4 hour examination?  <\/p>\n

I’m not trying to begrudge the GRE its overhaul, but I am interested in the way these
\nchanges–changes explained as "a more accurate gauge"–imply unaddressed shifts
\nin what is being assessed.  The first time I took the GRE in 1996, writing
\nwasn’t a part of the test.  Instead there was a logic and analytical
\nreasoning section and I fared pretty well on that section–better, in fact, than
\non any other section of the exam.  When I took the GRE again in 2004, ETS was
\nusing the analytical writing section, but the scores were irregular, according
\nto the results, because the sample of test-takers was yet too insignificant to
\nnormalize the scale.  Whether my score was relatively normal or not, the
\nwriting section was memorably challenging.  It capped the exam; after more
\nthan an hour of verbal and quantitative items: fizzle.  And now, to think
\nof writing a pair of 30-minute analytical mini-essays after nearly three<\/i>
\nhours of verbal and quantitative problems.  Is this the part most "closely
\naligned to graduate work"? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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