Testing Service Describes GRE’s New Measure of ‘Noncognitive’ Qualities

No standardized test can capture everything there is to know about a student, but the Educational Testing Service says its Graduate Record Examination will soon reveal more about applicants than it does now.

At the annual meeting of the Council of Graduate Schools, which begins today in Washington, officials of the service plan to unveil more information about the new, noncognitive component of the GRE. Taken by about 600,000 people each year, the exam is the gateway to Ph.D.

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