<p>I'm hesitant about taking the new GRE after August. I heard that the verbal reasoning will eliminate any "vocabulary out of context", which I assume means no antonyms, etc. ...which is good news. On the other hand some of the verbal questions may have more than one answer, which complicates things. Additionally, I believe ets said the scoring will be different as well...? Will it still be easy to compare applicants who have taken the current to applicants who have taken the new GRE? </p>
<p>I'm a science major, so I'm not too concerned with the quantitative section (besides, it sounds like it won't be changing significantly). It's mostly the verbal that I'm curious about.</p>
<p>Anyway, I was just looking to find out what anyone else who is planning on taking the GRE in the next year will be doing and/or any thoughts.</p>
<p>Yes, all you heard is spot-on, no antonyms, no analogies, that’s good news! but the problem is that the “vocab level” is still high so those word-lists will be still relevant, besides as you pointed out the nature of the test will become much harder, if you take a look at sample questions they put on their website, you see that a common sentence completion has doubled or tripled “length” and add to that “3 empty spaces” (instead of 1 or 2) and for each one 3 answers! I don’t know exactly but if they plan to give points to only all-of-the-three-right answers that means you have to choose among 9 answers! that’s scary for me, same story about more-than-one-right-answer questions and scary-type readings, so I really don’t how the results of new GRE will turn out, it’s an unknown territory for us, not to mention score range won’t be 200-800 anymore either, (it becomes 100-200 or sth like that) so they evidently will have to introduce some score conversion tables too with new tests which is a big problem itself</p>
<p>IMO those who need to take the test for 2012-2013 year will be martyrs to this situation, UNLESS they they focus on both old and new tests and try to do their best on both, take the old ones now and crack it, then go on and prep for after-August tests too do your best on it too, if you thought (based on updated info “at that time”) the results of the new test will make you look better report them! But if it turned out new test will hurt you in some ways, you can stick to old scores and not regret why you didn’t take good old then cake GRE.</p>