October 28th, 2010, both official websites of GRE test registration and information network of Ministry test center suppressed ETS: statement of GRE test in Chinese mainland on October 23th,it declears that because of the reusing of old questions in Chinese mainland on October 23th, all of the students’ marks of GRE test have been invalidated.
In the statement, ETS provides 3 approaches for the test takers to make up: take the exam again for free on Nov. 20th, 2010 or on Jun. 11th, 2011; get a refund of the examination fee in full amount.
A testee named Wenjing Zhang, waiting for marks, says that she wants to apply postgraduate of American university and must present all information by the end of this year, however according to the fail-over approaches, she has to retake the exam in November. “I expected my marks to be over 1200 this time, I do not know if I’m to take it again, what the score would be?”
There is an opinion poll of retesting of GRE at the channel of Sina education, nearly 80% of net friends think the event influnces application of testees next year, 70% of net friends express “the impact is huge, all plans of application are disrupted”, opinion of “the impact is limited” and “the impact is fair to everyone” are each comprised of 10%.
Wenning Hu, leading teacher of Foreign Department of Xi’an New Oriental School said that it was exceedingly rare for the marks of GRE to be invalidated on such a large scale. Statistics show that nearly a thousand of testees are influenced in Xi’an.
Wenning Hu states that the invalidation of GRE marks is carried out across the whole Chinese mainland, maybe the American universities know this, and they may adopt some flexible ideas. “students can get in touch with universities, send other information first, and hand in transcripts at last.”
