ETS opens doors to higher education in many countries

MANILA, Philippines - Educational Testing Service (ETS), the leading academic and business assessment company in the world, has recently updated its Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) General Test, to make it more test-taker friendly for thousands of applicants planning to take graduate-level studies in different countries including the Philippines.

More than 600,000 prospective graduate and business school applicants from 230 countries take the GRE General Test each year. GRE scores are used by admissions or fellowship panels to supplement undergraduate records, recommendation letters and other qualifications for graduate studies.

The test measures verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, critical thinking and analytical writing skills that are not related to any specific field of study. GRE scores are sent to more than 3,200 institutions and used by all types of graduate programs around the world, including over 450 MBA programs.  

In August 2011, ETS, the creator of the GRE Tests, will launch the GRE revised General Test. Revisions to the test will include a more test-taker friendly design, and new question types that better reflect the kind of thinking students will need to do in today’s demanding graduate and business school programs.

Registration for the GRE revised General Test opens on March 15, 2011, and the revised test will be administered beginning Aug. 1, 2011. Students who take the GRE revised General Test in August and September of 2011 will receive a special 50 percent discount. 

It is important to note that students who take the test in August and September 2011, will receive their GRE test scores until mid-November 2011. That means students who need their scores reports before November 2011, must take current test before Aug. 1, 2011.

The GRE General Test is offered as a computer-based test (CBT) year-round by appointment at most locations. It is considered less expensive than other graduate admissions tests that measure the same skills, while providing students with added value through access to free GRE test preparation materials, free GRE Search Service and the free ETS Personal Potential Index (PPI) Evaluation Reports with a GRE General Test registration.

Students interested in preparation materials for the GRE revised General Test can visit http://www.ets.org/gre/revised_general/prepare/ where they will find free preparation materials for the computer-based and paper-based versions of the GRE revised General Test.

Aside from developing the GRE General Test, ETS is also the creator of the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) and Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) tests.