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GRE News
The GRE was slated to be drastically changed in fall 2007. However, in spring of 2007, ETS (the writers of the GRE) announced that the changes were cancelled.
This is terrific news for anyone looking to take the GRE, since the changes were going to cause substantial delays in applications and would have left students with less published material from which to study.
ETS appears to have every intention of leaving the GRE basically unchanged for the next few years, while gradually adding new questions and features to the old exam. The first of these is a new question type that began appearing in November of 2007 in the math and verbal sections. The new verbal question is a traditional fill-in-the-blank sentence completion question, with the added twist that the choices are independently selected for each blank. The new question may also feature up to four blanks, rather than the traditional maximum of two. The math question question is a traditional problem solving question, but instead of featuring five answer choices, examinees are required to type in the answer. Only one of the examinee's questions will be one of these new types; all the other questions will follow the old GRE format. (For more information on the traditional format of the GRE, visit our GRE FAQ.
More information about the new question added on the GRE can be found at ETS's website.
LSAT News
In June 2007 the LSAT writers introduced a new style of reading comprehension passage that replaced one of the four traditional-styled passages. The new passage, called "Comparative Reading Comprehension", features two shorter passages on the same topic. Most of the questions accompanying the passage require examinees to pull information from both passages in order to answer the questions.
So far, Griffon Prep students have reported that they haven't found the comparative reading passage to be any harder than the other traditional passages. The passages test the same basic reading skills and are very susceptible to the strategies learned in class. For examples of the comparative reading comprehension passages, visit LSAC's website.
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