Current GRE : Stupid :: New GRE : ____
A. Changing
B. Probably still stupid
C. All of the above
The folks at the Educational Testing Center, which administers the Graduate Record Exam, thought they were keeping questions from a newly formulated version of the GRE secret. Well, the cat just might be out of the bag. Test administrators insist the new version — which does not yet have a release date — will not include analogies, but we’d recommend you study the question above just in case. In case you do happen to trust the Education Testing Center (which probably means you’ve never studied for the GRE), ETC officials say they will also be eliminating questions on antonyms and a non-calculator portion of the math test.
In other changes related news, officials at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, who once considered adding a weight loss requirement for obese students, are now backing off their controversial proposal. Ivory V. Nelson, president of Lincoln, said in an interview with Inside HigherEd Saturday that the faculty “wanted to keep what we were doing, but wanted to send a message that we were not singling out any group.”
And speaking of changes…