Last week the Educational Testing Service announced the cancellation of the new changes to the GRE that were to be set in effect this year. The decision to cancel the new changes came after results of a recent study looking at the test center network. The main reason for the cancellation concerned the new change that called for the test to be administered at 3,200 internet based test centers. The group determined that the network would not be able to give all students the chance to take the exam. The Executive Director of the GRE Program at ETS David Payne expressed the findings in a recent press release. “After much debate and evaluation, it became clear that the current format offers students more convenient and flexible opportunities to test when and where they choose, while still providing score users with valid predictors of test takers’ preparedness for graduate school
