The GRE@ Program will introduce a revised GRE General Test in the fall of 2007 that is designed to: ? Increase test validity 增加考试的可靠性 ? Provide faculty with better information regarding applicants’ performance 为大学提供考生更准确的能力信息 ? Address security concerns 考虑 ? Increase worldwide access to the test 增加世界各地考试范围 ? Make better use of advances in technology and psychometric design 更好的在考试中利用先进技术和心理测量学设计 Changes planned include the following: 具体变化如下： Verbal Reasoning 语文： ? Greater emphasis on higher cognitive skills and less dependence on vocabulary 更注重认知能力，减少对量的依赖 ? More text-based materials, such as reading passages 更多的文本材料，比如增加阅读文章 ? A broader selection of reading passages 阅读文章选材更加广泛 ? Emphasis on skills related to graduate work, such as complex reasoning 注重与科研工作相关的能力考查，如复合推理 ? Expansion of computer-enabled tasks (e.g., clicking on a sentence in a passage to highlight it) 扩大计算机在考试中的应用（例如，考生可以点击文章中的句子，让其更突出） ? Two 40-minute sections rather than one 30-minute section 2个40分钟的部分取代以前一个30分钟的部分 Quantitative Reasoning 数学 ? Quantitative reasoning skills that are closer to skills generally used in graduate school 所考查的能力更接近在学校广泛应用的能力 ? Proportion of questions involving real-life scenarios and data interpretation increased 增加与现实生活场景或数据阐释问题的比重 ? Proportion of Geometry questions decreased 几何题比例下降 ? Better use of technology (e.g., on-screen calculator) 更好的利用科技（如桌面计算器） ? Two 40-minute sections rather than one 45-minute section 2个45分钟的部分取代以前一个45分钟的部分 Analytical Writing 分析写作 ? New, more focused prompts that reduce the possibility of reliance on memorized materials 新的热点题目减少考生对背诵材料的依赖 ? The Issue and Argument tasks are each 30 minutes in length Issue和Argument分别为30分钟 ? Essay responses will be made available to designated score recipients 写作的点评可以发给特定的分数接受者 Changes in the Verbal and Quantitative Score Scales 语文和数学记变化 ? The GRE Board has approved new score scales for the Verbal and Quantitative sections. The GRE Program anticipates that the new score scale range will be 110 to 150, in 1-point increments. Final specification of the score scale will be determined based on data from the initial revised General Test administrations in the fall of 2007.
