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官方网站最新消息，前段时间ETS信誓旦旦宣传今年9月将在全球推行的新GRE考试计划由于种种原因取消，老GRE考试将于近期恢复报名。中国地区（包括香港，台湾）以及韩国在随后仍然保持每年两次的GRE考试。广大考生又被ETS涮了一把。
根据这一变化，为满足广大学员培训的需求，上海新东方春季及暑假所有的新GRE课程都恢复为老GRE培训，请大家密切关注上海新东方网站。
据悉，取消新GRE是GRE管理委员会经过慎重讨论得出的结果。尽管ETS和管理委员会的成员仍会全力把对GRE考试的改革进行下去，但是GRE的官方人士认为目前确保考生能够在iBT机房考试的问题远远大于迅速采用新的GRE考试模式的好处。
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的GRE项目执行主任David Payne说:”取消新GRE考试的决定对广大考生和依据考生GRE成绩作出是否录取决定的研究机构是大有裨益的。”“经过我们的反复讨论和论证，我们发现现行的GRE考试模式无论从时间和地点上对考生都是非常方便和灵活的，同时现行GRE考试也能为研究生院的录取官们提供一个非常客观的分数标准，从而使他们充分了解申请人对未来研究生院学习的准备程度。
取消新GRE考试改革的主要原因是由于新GRE考试的考点有限，能够保证参加考试的考生数量不足。尽管ETS在新GRE改革的计划中已经打算在全球设置3200个考点，但ETS的领导层认为这些考点的容量并不能保证所有考生都能够报上名并如期参加考试。
在保证能够提供一个全新的GRE考试的网络环境的前提下，ETS的官员将与GRE的管理委员会在将来共同完成计划中的新GRE考试内容的改进。
中国地区（包括香港，台湾）以及韩国在随后仍然保持每年两次的GRE考试。
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Plans for the Revised GRE® General Test Cancelled
Contact: Tom Ewing
(609) 683-2899
mediacontacts@ets.org
Princeton
, N.J.
(April 2, 2007)
ETS has cancelled plans to launch the revised Graduate Record Examinations® (GRE®) General Test. The decision was made in consultation with the Executive Committee of the GRE Board.
While ETS and the Board remain committed to improving the test, on balance, GRE officials said they believe problems guaranteeing complete access to the new Internet-based test outweighed the benefits of immediately moving to the new format.
ETS originally planned to launch the revised GRE General Test worldwide in September. Instead, the company will continue to offer the test worldwide in its current computer-based, continuous testing format. Registrations in India, China and Japan, which had been closed, will be reopened in the near future to accommodate application deadlines. Likewise, registrations for the current GRE General Test will continue elsewhere.
"The decision to cancel the revised GRE General Test best serves the interests of test takers and the graduate institutions that use those scores to make admissions decisions," says David Payne, Executive Director of the GRE Program at ETS. "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 study."
The primary reason for cancelling the launch of the revised GRE General Test was test taker access. Plans called for the revised test to be delivered over the new worldwide network of 3,200 Internet-based testing centers. Despite the network's size, ETS officials did not believe that full access to the General Test for all students could be confidently assured.
"As the launch approached, ETS determined that, despite the aggressive development of our Internet-based testing network, we could not guarantee complete access to all students needing to take the exam" Payne explains. "While the graduate community supports, and in fact helped develop and pilot the revised GRE General Test, they have also stated that they are satisfied with the current GRE General Test, until such time as improvements can be gradually implemented. ETS is being responsive to their best interests."
ETS officials will work with the GRE Board to implement many of the planned test content improvements in the future without the access issues associated with changing to an entirely new test delivered over a brand new testing network.
Administering the GRE General Test in two testing sessions in The People's Republic of China (including Hong Kong), The Republic of Korea and Taiwan will also continue for the immediate future.
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