new version of the GRE

The Education Testing Service announced earlier this month it would stop administering the current version of the Graduate Record Examination.The new version of the GRE will be administered beginning in September, which does not leave much time for potential test takers to prepare for the latest version.Over 500,000 students take the exam each year, and now students are forced to make a decision on whether to take it under the old or new format. the new version of the GRE will have a greater emphasis on cognitive and reasoning skills, including questions with complex sentences that require filling in multiple words. The math section will focus more on data analysis for more “world-life” problems rather than geometry. students who plan on taking the test should give themselves three months of preparation time. Given the change in the test dates, Kaplan said students should enroll now in practice courses if they plan to take the GRE before July 31.