Remember that Wall? Well... surprise! It's actually a Bridge.

Turns out the GRE is moving onto a completely new system. Notable changes include:

• No antonyms and analogies,
• Individual sentence completions,
• More passages,
• An on-screen calculator,
• Multiple answers for multiple choice questions, and
• Two verbal and two quantitative sections.

So now it is basically a beefed up version of the SAT except there is no multiple choice writing section. Maybe this reflects the increased decisions to go to graduate school? Maybe. maybe.

A piece of news I am ambiguous about is that the scoring system is changing from 200-800 per section (in increments of 10) to 130-170 per section (in increments of 1): as if the 200-800 scoring was not arbitrary enough. ETS claims that the new scoring system is only to the benefit of test takers: small differences in skill can be identified, while large differences in skill are still obvious. I suspect this is probably in reaction to increasing numbers of test-takers scoring 800s, thus making it difficult to differentiate one 800 from the other 800. But does this mean grad schools will simply draw a smaller circle for test-takers to jump through?

EDIT. turns out it's changing in 2011. not 2010. reading skills hellooooo!