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I’ve just staggered out of the new, 4-hour GRE, and this email is your update on the revised test.
Everyone (and I mean everyone) was worried about this new test – ETS kept telling us it would be better, but ETS has been known to blow smoke in the past. My verdict:  It’s better in some ways, about the same in others, and I’d say (for the most part) less awesome in ways that aren’t the end of the world.

The bad:

• It’s really long.  Two 30-minute essays plus two 35-minute math sections plus two 30-minute verbal sections PLUS an experimental section (30 or 35 minutes). LONG!  Almost 4 hours.
• Remember how before you might not ever have to deal with the super-hard questions?  Super-hard is now in the mix for all test takers (more on this later).
• The math section now contains parabolas, more advanced standard deviation stuff, and a few weird expansions of some of our less-used concepts (like compound interest and permutations).  The very hard math questions are the hardest I’ve ever seen on a GRE and harder than the really hard GMAT questions.
• They’ve extended the re-take period: you have to wait 60 days to take the new GRE a second time.

The neutral:

• There’s still vocab on the test.  The vocab is still hard.  But it’s more of a sentence completion type of hard than an analogies or antonyms hard.
• The new verbal question types should feel very familiar – they’re basically an expansion of sentence completion and reading comp (okay, so that last bit may fall under “bad” for some of you).
• Most of the math content is the same.
• The essays are exactly the same.
• There are new question types for both math and verbal, but I don’t think they’re harder question types, just different.

The good:

• Analogies and antonyms are gone!!!!
• There’s a smattering of a verbal question type that our GMAT students generally like, called Arguments (they’re called that on the GMAT, here they’re just called Reading Comp).  They’re kind of fun.
• This is huge: they give you an on-screen calculator.  It’s basic, but it’s nice to have.
• You can skip and go back to questions within a section.
• I think, on balance, that the verbal is somewhat more manageable and the math is equally good/bad.  You can skip the monster math questions, which makes them less awful than if you couldn’t, and instead make up points on easier questions (see below re scoring).
• The scoring works totally differently.  It’s an interesting mix of the old paper-and-pencil scoring and computer adaptive.  What that means is that each section is a non-adaptive mish-mash of questions, with level of difficulty all mixed up within the section.  Every question is worth the same as every other question.  So!  You can choose to skip the awful hard ones and focus instead on the more manageable questions.  This is really nice because….
•  We have GREAT techniques for this test, already ready to go.  They’re a combo of the techniques you’ve seen (plugging in, for instance), and new ones that are really old ones from back when the GRE was a paper and pencil test.

And finally:  The test WILL give you an unofficial score!  Now, don’t get too excited – it’s given as a range of 50 points (so it might say that you’ve scored between a 550 and a 600).  But that’s still really nice – it lets you know whether you’re likely to need to take it again.  Remember that any test you take between now and early November won’t be reported to schools until mid-November at the earliest.  Anderson has announced that they’re willing to wait as long as the rest of your application is in on time.  Check with other schools to see how they plan to handle this.
That’s it for now!  Feel free to email me with any questions!

普渡哥

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毛毛carina

我见过的最难的gmat数学题是无法用手算出来的啊，那gre这个是神马概念？？

-- by 会员 konasherry (2011/8/4 18:56:00)

所以新GRE提供了在线计算器~~

konasherry

我见过的最难的gmat数学题是无法用手算出来的啊，那gre这个是神马概念？？

毛毛carina

那些“超级难”的数学问题是我所见过的最难的GRE问题，比最难的GMAT考试问题都要难

求检验那些最难GRE>GMAT问题

-- by 会员 zliycdr (2011/8/4 10:29:43)

我正在寻觅

曹飞机

看来新G值得一试！

zliycdr

那些“超级难”的数学问题是我所见过的最难的GRE问题，比最难的GMAT考试问题都要难

求检验那些最难GRE>GMAT问题

毛毛carina

啊啊啊，强烈感谢sonia百忙之中还帮忙翻译心经，爱老虎油！！！

这么说来，GRE里面的数学部分，我们中国人更有优势了呐~~

SoniaShi

翻译一楼：


我刚刚才从新的，4个小时的GRE考场走出来，这封邮件就是我给大家的关于改版考试的update.

每个（我是说每个）曾经担心这个新考试的人，-- 没错，ETS一直都跟我们说会更好（容易）的，但是我们都知道ETS过去一直故意“低估”这些考试。

我的结论：在某些方面，的确好（容易）了一些，但是其他方面还是差不多（难），而且我要说（这是我最想说的）这个考试变得不那么“卓越”的部分也不是世界末日。


变难的地方：

·真的很长！两个30分钟的论文，加上两个35分钟的数学加上两个30分钟的语文，再加上一个30或者35分钟的测试题目，真的是很长！差不多4个小时。
·还记得以前你其实可能永远也不需要去面对那些超级难解问题吗？这些“超级问题”现在被混在一起给所有参与考试的人了（待会儿我再详细说这个）。
·现在的数学部分包含抛物线，还有更复杂的关于标准差的东西，和对一些不常用概念的诡异延伸（如复利和排列）。那些“超级难”的数学问题是我所见过的最难的GRE问题，比最难的GMAT考试问题都要难。


没变的地方：

·还有vocab部分，还是那么难，但是更多是句子填空而不是类比反义。
·新的语文题目感觉并不陌生，他们基本上就是一些句子填空和阅读理解（好吧，可能对你们中的某些人来说这是一个坏消息）。
·大部分的数学内容都很类似。
·作文是一模一样的。
·数学和语文部分都有新题型，但是我不觉得是“更难”，只是“不同”而已。

变容易的地方：

·类比反义不见啦！！！
·有一种我们的考试GMAT的同学通常很喜欢的题目，他们叫它“Arguments”（反正GMAT就这么叫的，在GRE里面叫做“reading comp”），这些题还挺逗儿的。
·大手笔啊：他们这次给你提供了一个屏幕计算器，虽然功能很初级，但是总比没有强。
·在同一个section可以跳跃和回读问题。
·我想，总的来说，语文部分更容易对付了，而数学基本上差不多。因为你可以选择跳过那些怪兽数学题，所以他们显得不是那么张牙舞爪了（如果你不能跳过去的话），相应的，你可以在容易的问题上获得更多的分数（参看下面的re scoring部分）
·评分系统的运作方式完全不同。是此前纸考评分和机考评分的一个混合机制。就是说，每一个section都是一个独立的“非自适应米什混搭问题”，混杂着不同难度的题目，而且每一道题分值一样。所以！你可以选择跳过可怕问题，而专心把简单的做对。这可真是太好啦（此处省略1000词）。。。。。。
·我们在这个考试中可以利用高科技！他们是一些你所见过的技术（比如“plugging in”），和新的，还有在GRE笔考中曾经出现的超级旧的技术的大混合。


最后：这个测试会给你一个“非正式”评分，但是别兴奋得太早，他只会给你一个跨度为50分的区间（不如他可能说你的得分在550和600之间）。但是还是挺不错的，至少你可以当场判断是否需要再战。记住，所有从现在开始到11月份之间的考试成绩在11月中旬之前都不会寄给学校，Anderson已经宣布只要你申请的其他部分已经完成，他们会一直等这个考试成绩到它出来的那一天。你们可以再查查其他学校将会如何处理此事。

先说这么多吧，有什么问题请给我写邮件。

毛毛carina

期待更多的心经~~