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A good score in the revised GRE could be your ticket to an A grade business school around the globe.
Till now, GMAT used to be the choice exam for students applying for an MBA, while GRE catered to the humanities and science streams.
In its new avatar, GRE will test a student's non-cognitive skills such as ethics and team work, essential for business school education, according to Mr David Payne, Vice-President and COO, Higher Education Division, Educational Testing Service (ETS), Princeton.
The new system came into force earlier this month.
Over the past few months, more business schools have started accepting GRE scores, taking the number to 600. Stanford, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) and Harvard Business School are some of them.
“This number is increasing every week. Nearly two-thirds of the top 100 B-schools have tied up with us,” Mr Payne told Business Line .
There are more than 12,000 business schools in the US alone.
With GRE wooing graduate business schools, the choice has widened for students.
“The GRE revised General Test is being administered at more test centres in more cities and countries than all other graduate admissions exams used by business schools, making it easily accessible,” according to the test creator, ETS.
The new test costs less than other graduate-level admissions tests for business school, says Mr Payne.
This is GRE's first major revamp in 60 years. The test will now be four hours, instead of three. Students will be able to skip questions and return to them later. The vocabulary section with antonyms and analogies has been replaced with a critical reasoning section. There will also be a verbal and a math section. There is an on screen calculator for the quantitative section.
Some students are apprehensive of the new format and the different scoring system, but Mr Payne says it has been redesigned to make it more test taker-friendly.
For students registering for the test in August and September, there is a 50 per cent discount on the fees.
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