GRE

What is GRE?

The Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) General Test is a multiple-choice admission test for applicants to graduate schools. It is a common prerequisite for all Graduate School applicants. It is developed and conducted by Educational Testing Service (ETS)-a subsidiary of the Graduate Record Examination Board of the U.S.A. The test is a computer-adaptive test (CAT), and consists of three scored sections.

The scores of this standardized, computer adaptive format test help graduate schools to assess the advanced study potential of their prospective students. GRE test scores are used by admissions or fellowship panels to supplement undergraduate records and other qualifications for graduate study. GRE offers two kinds of Examinations to enable admissions panel to assess the applicants and their aptitude towards their chosen fields of study - GRE General Test and GRE Subject Test. Most applicants to Graduate Schools are generally asked to take the GRE General test.

Why GRE?

The GRE General Test measures the skills that you've acquired over the high school and college years. It is an aptitude test because it is meant to measure your potential to succeed in graduate school. While the GRE is only one of several criteria that graduate schools use to evaluate your application, it is one of the most important. This is particularly true if your college GPA is not as high as you'd like. Exceptional GRE scores can open up new opportunities for grad school. The GRE General Test contains sections that measure verbal, quantitative, and analytical writing skills.

Eligibility

A 10+2 pass out of any recognised Indian Board or University is a suitable qualification to take the GRE but generally students go for it after completing their Bachelors degree.

Test Structure

Total time allotted for the Computer-adaptive GRE test is 3 hours, whereas for the Paper-based test it is 3 ¾ hours.

GRE offers two kinds of Examinations to enable admissions panel to assess the applicants and their aptitude towards their chosen fields of study - GRE General Test and GRE Subject Test. Most applicants to Graduate Schools are generally asked to take the GRE General test.

GRE General Test : Generally taken by prospective graduate students, this test measures Verbal reasoning, Analytical and Critical Writing and Quantitative Reasoning skills of a candidate.

GRE Subject test : This version of GRE exam assesses candidates' knowledge level and accomplishments in a specific field of study. Unlike the GRE General test, this test is available only thrice in a year and can be taken only as the paper-based test. The scores of this test are often required for doctoral programs in the US, though some universities require the GRE Subject test scores for Masters-level programs too. The eight subjects in which the GRE subject test is presently conducted are: Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, English Literature, Mathematics, Physics and Psychology.

Each of the three sections is scored on a scale of 200 to 800. The average scores for the GRE are about 470 for Verbal and 570 for Quantitative.

How to apply?

There are no specific dates or schedules for taking the GRE/GMAT/TOEFL. These are conducted round the year.The procedure is to first obtain a form and consequently register your self for the exam.

1. Ordering the form- Forms and their details are available (free of cost) at:

Institute of Psychological and Educational Measurement(IPEM)

119/25-A, Mahatma Gandhi Marg

Allahabad - 211001 (U.P.), India

Phone: 0532 - 624881, 623858

Fax: 0532 - 624637

E-mail : ets@ipem.org

Website : http://ipem.org/ The United States Education Foundation in India (USEFI):

Educational Advisor,

USEFI, Fulbright House,

12 Hailey Road,

New Delhi - 110 001

Phone : (011) 3328944

Fax : (011) 3329718

E-mail : vijaya@usefi.ernet.in

2.Registration : Thereafter, to register yourself for a particular test date, you can contact Sylvan Testing Services in New Delhi.

Address:

Sylvan Testing Services Pvt. Ltd.

Senior Plaza 160-A, Gautam Nagar, 3rd Floor Yusuf Sarai,

Behind Indian Oil Building

New Delhi 110 049

Tel: 011-6511649 Fax: 011-6529741

Acceptable Forms of Payment :

1.International Credit Card : The fee  can be paid to Sylvan Testing Services through any of  the following international credit cards- VISA, Master , American Express over a  telephone.

OR

2. Cheques, bank drafts, money orders payable in U.S. dollars must be drawn on banks located in the U.S  and be made payable to ETS-GMAT/GRE/TOEFL.

If payments are made in the Indian currency, these must be made at the telegraphic transfer selling (TTS) exchange rate of the U.S. dollar equivalent. Cheques, money orders payable in Indian Rupee must be drawn on a bank in India

Computer Based Test (CBT) Centres in India

ALLAHABAD - IPEM

AHMEDABAD

BANGALORE

CALCUTTA

HYDERABAD

MADRAS

MUMBAI

NEW DELHI

TRIVANDRUM

These links will give each and every details

http://etsis4.ets.org/tcenter/CenterListIntl.jsp?I=I

http://www.prometric.com/testtakers/contactus/Email.htm

Apple awarded patent for the virtual page turn

Trust Apple to do this. The Cupertino brand has won itself the virtual page turn patent from the United States Patent office. This design patent, referred to as 'Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface', is best explained in the image below. This illustrative image depicts the virtual page turn in action. The first image shows the page as being slightly lifted, a little more in the next, and almost turned over in the third. Apple had reportedly filed for the patent in December last year. The patent description reads thus, "The appearance of the animated images sequentially transitions between the images shown in FIGS. 1-3. The process or period in which one image transitions to another forms no part of the claimed design. "

Virtual page turn patent in action

Only a couple of days ago, Apple was in the news for reportedly working on new headphones that could double up as speakers. According to Apple Insider, the Cupertino-based company has presented an invention for a 'dual-mode headphone' that can transform from a normal set of earbuds into a speaker system, in a patent application with the US Patent and Trademark Office.

The patent application states: "Users typically listen to content on their portable devices using headphones, although there are speakers available that can be connected to the portable devices to enable multiple users to listen in at the same time. This approach, however, may require a user to carry both a headphone and speakers, or may require the user to rely on speakers built into the device, which may not be as powerful or have as high a sound quality as external speakers."

Recently, third time in a row Apple was crowned as the most innovative company, in a new annual survey of the top 10 most innovative companies. Google came second. Over the months, Apple has also been finding itself grabbing headlines in its lawsuit against arch rival Samsung Electronics. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has been given a go-ahead by a US Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal in San Jose, California, to put forth its claims that the Apple iPhone 5 violates its patents. The US judge also allowed Apple to go ahead with its claims that the Samsung Galaxy Note, Galaxy S III, and the Google-owned Android Jelly Bean operating system violate its patents. This development is the latest in what has been a longstanding patent battle involving Cupertino-based Apple Inc and brands manufacturing Android-running devices, Samsung being one of them. As per reports, both companies refused to comment. 

A British court had recently directed Apple to publish its apology to arch rival Samsung on its UK website and local newspapers. The court found Apple’s first apology to be non-compliant. A day later, Apple published a compliant version of its apology on UK’s newspapers, reports at the time indicated. As had been directed by the court earlier, the apology was in the Arial font of size no less than 14 points in size. Interestingly, Apple even removed the apology that it had placed on its website earlier and is moving it to the front page for prominence.

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