Changes to GRE General Test from October 2006

[wizkid]

Changes to GRE General Test from October 2006

Summary & Overview of Changes

The new GRE General Test will be slightly over four hours long, an increase from the current two-and-a-half-hour exam. It will also no longer be offered in a computer-adaptive format, where the difficulty of the test is determined by the test taker’s right or wrong answers. Instead, it will be offered in a linear format, in which every student takes the same exam.

Changes to the Verbal Reasoning measure include:

1. two 40-minute sections rather than one 30-minute section

2. greater emphasis on higher cognitive skills and less dependence on vocabulary

3. a broader selection of reading passages including sentence-equivalence questions

4. expansion of computer-enabled tasks

Changes to the Quantitative Reasoning measure include:

1. two 40-minute sections rather than one 45-minute section

2. fewer geometry questions

3. more real-life scenarios and data interpretation questions

4. on-screen, four-function calculator with square-root feature

Changes to the Analytical Writing measure include:

1. 15 minutes shorter

2. more focused questions to ensure original analytical writing

3. 30-minute argument and issue tasks

Each test will also contain a variable section that will not count toward a test taker’s score but will be used to select questions for future versions of the exam.


This is the info i got from different sources, please chk once again.............

[mini_y2006]

hi ,
how to prepare for quantitative section as am not good in math