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Students hoping to attend graduate school will be required to take a longer, more reading-based Graduate Record Examination beginning in August 2011, according to the Educational Testing Service, which administers the GRE.
The ETS, which tests hundreds of thousands of prospective graduate students each year, announced several changes to the test, including an increase in the test's length from 2.5 hours to four hours, an added on-screen calculator for the online version of the test and the elimination of analogies and antonyms questions in favor of more critical reading questions and multiple correct-response questions, in which students must choose every correct option in order to receive credit, according to the ETS website.
While the current test adjusts its difficulty according to test-taker performance with each correct or incorrect response, the new test will enable takers to skip and edit their answers to questions within a given section, according to the ETS website.