This is a science mag article about our favorite whipping boy and my former employer, ETS. As bad luck would have it, just when unis are thinking of not requiring the GREs, along comes Covid-19, requiring tests to be administered online. According to Science, the specifications for students who take the online GREs include being alone in a room, having a computer with a webcam, having a whiteboard if they take notes, sitting in a standard, not overstuffed chair, and ensuring no one will enter the room for the entire 3 hours. How hard/easy is this? I read about a school that had to set up a hotspot in a school bus so the profs could get the internet for teaching. We are talking about high school students here. For schools that had been considering disconnecting from the GRE as a requirement for graduate school. Covid-19 may be the camel's-back-breaker. Good riddance to high stakes testing. There is proctoring software (examsoft) that universities make available for giving exams but probably also a readily available-to-students industry for getting around it.
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