A time to be a turkey

Dr. Oscar Patterson, chair of the Department of Communication at the University of North Florida, donned a turkey suit as part of a charity event Nov. 22 on the Green. Patterson received the most donations from students among participating faculty in the department. The donations will go to the student advertising club to “adopt” a family in time for the holidays.

New form of GRE expected in 2006

"Test will be extended, sections will be different from
previous tests"

By Tami Livingston
Contributing writer

A revised exam will be required for undergraduate students who are interested in attending graduate school, affecting approximately 450,000 people in the world, according to a testing review Web site, www.admissionguru. com.

Every year, an estimated 300,000 people take the Graduate Record Examination, or GRE, in the United States, stated the Web site. Another 150,000 potential graduate students are estimated to take the test every year around the world.

Graduate schools use the GRE as a predictor of a person’s expected success in graduate programs, according to the Office of Graduate Studies at the University of North Florida. While not all graduate schools require applicants to submit GRE scores, many of them do and have a minimum score requirement, said administration from the office. But the requirements are different for every school.

Traditionally, the GRE has consisted of three sections – verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning and analytical writing, which was added in 2002, according to the Educational Testing Service Web site, the official site for GRE information.