GMAT to undergo massive changes

The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) is about to undergo its biggest makeover in more than a decade, and test prep companies are gearing up to help students get ready to take the radically redesigned exam.

Starting in 2012, aspiring applicants will take the Next Generation GMAT, which will include a new section on integrated reasoning, in which test takers will analyze data from multiple sources to draw conclusions, says Ashok Sarathy, vice-president for the GMAT program at the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC).

GRE Announces changes in format from 2011

The Graduate Record Exam (GRE), will look significantly different in 2011. ETS, which conducts the exam, announced its plans to revamp the GRE , calling the changes the “largest revisions” in the test’s history.

Tom Ewing,spokesperson for ETS said these changes have been a “long time coming.” ETS first announced changes in 2006, but delayed making them until 2007 to add more Internet-based test centers. In 2007, it canceled the planned changes. The new test will include a new grading scale and an increased emphasis on reasoning and critical thinking skills, while focusing less on analogy and vocabulary sections.

Growing Popularity of IELTS

Good News for all IELTS applicants....
Slowly but surely IELTS has found its way into USA – another 57 universities joined the list of many others already recognizing IELTS in the US of A. This year more IELTS Test Centers will be opened in USA to meet the growing demand for IELTS exam.

UK has also accepted IELTS as the official English test for immigration purposes and IELTS band score can now be translated into equivalent Cambridge ESOL Certificate of corresponding level.