Thank you Brian!

I will also be taking the home edition of the GRE in the next couple of weeks and let the forum know how it went.

BTW, my roommate is a coder and apparently he took an exam here in Toronto that used the Proctor U platform and he said that it was quite intimidating. He said that the proctor apprently interrupted every chance she got. For example he was thinking about a problem and had his face or cheeks leaning over his hands on the table and she said remove that. She also told him to sit straight and not play with the pen as he was tapping on the desk while thinking. So if anything I think this will be quite a daunting experience. Imaging being in a class room writing a test and the proctor is standing over your shoulder looking into your sheet at all times. It will def be a bit distracting.

I also think this is something that is going to be a permanent option for bot GRE and GMAC. On the GRE webinar the Director of the ETS carefully dodged the qs when she was asked whether this will be a permanent feature or only during this crisis. I think this will become permanent in the near future.

Guys I just booked my GRE and it is awesome.

We could schedule the dates and time of the exam anytime. There were time slots available on the weekend and all the way upto 11.30 pm in the night.

This is legendary and I think GRE along with Proctor U will change the way we standardized tests moving forward. Just the convenience of it all. I am highly impressed.

Thank you bb and You are welcome!

Yeah it will be interesting to see how these industries adapt to the growing demand. But for now I’m grateful that GRE has created this option so that students can proceed with their graduate study dreams.

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Wow fantastic! Good luck on your test.
Are there the same limitations in terms of how many days beforehand you can register for a new test or cancel a booked one?

I assume they will simply revert the price hike, bringing the price back to 250$.
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I think the idea is that they will be considered equal... so you feel they should not be?




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I doubt that but I would obviously love a sub 200$ price tag.

We will have to wait and find out!
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Yes, the 7 sections of the GRE (2 30-min essays, 2 30-min Verbal sections, 2 35-minute Quant sections, and 1 30/35 minute experimental section) add up to about 3 hours and 45 minutes (or 3 hours and 40 minutes if your experimental section is Verbal) of testing time.

Add the 10-minute break after the first two multiple-choice sections, and the 1-minute break between the final 3 sections (which can actually be extended longer than 1 minute, if you so choose), and the GRE takes 4 hours to complete.

Haha, sure. After each 1-minute break, you have to click on a button to begin the next section of the GRE ("Resume Exam" or something like that). The computer exam gives you the impression that the next section will auto-start after the 1-minute break is over, but you can actually extend the break even longer by waiting to press the "Resume Test" button until you are composed and ready to begin.

You can't get out of your seat during that time, but you most definitely can extend the 1-minute break longer (or at least that was the case when I last took the GRE in 2017). Is there an upper limit to how long you can stretch it? Perhaps, but I've never found that limit--I just use this trick to steal an extra minute or two of peace before the next section begins.

Got it. I suppose we are just twiddling our thumbs while we await more updates from GMAC, since the information about the at-home "interim" GMAT has been very vague thus far.

Do we suspect or know that ProctorU's secure test browser will also be used for the GMAT? Are there any other competitors to ProctorU who might give them a run for their money?