Korean Job Discussion Forums

[janafromfrance]

does anyone know where I can take it, is there a time you must register, or can you just show up, merci

[Moldy Rutabaga]

The GRE is hard to take in Korea because the GRE people cut off the computer tests here about six years ago because of allegations of cheating. ETS can be rapacious with their fees, but I respect that they don't take no sheet with their standards from anyone.

I took the GRE general in Bangkok and made it an excuse for a vacation. I was probably the only person sitting on a beach in Phuket with a test guide. It's four years ago, but when I took it they had sittings two or three times a week and I just had to go to the GRE website and schedule it and pay for it (it's the same price wherever you sit for it). Easy to do. Good luck.

Plan for who you would like to receive reports of your scores; at the end of the test ETS will offer you a few free reports.

[machellebelle]

search function:

http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=127321

[janafromfrance]

Thank you so so so so much

and Merry Christmas

[Hightop]

My co-teacher wanted to take the GRE in Korea during this winter vacation but either there were no tests or they were full. So she will fly to Philippines in February and take it twice in the same week.

[warren pease]

I don't know anything about anything but my friend just took the gmats here in Busan a couple months ago. My ignorant supposition is that if the gmats are here, so are the gres.

[makemischief]

[travelnguy]

Check out http://www.ets.org/gre/

It has all the information you need (test dates, locations, maps, fees, etc.).

Also, here's the link for a list of paper based test centers.
http://www.ets.org/Media/Tests/GRE/pdf/gre_0910_tclist.pdf

Here's the link to the computer based test centers.
http://etsis4.ets.org/tcenter/tcenterIntl.jsp

The test in Korea is broken up in two parts. I believe it's the same in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

I am taking the test in February. My options were Japan, Thailand, and the Philippines. Because of Cebu Pacific, it's cheap for me, the wife, and our son to fly to the Philippines and take the test in Cebu than for me to fly to Tokyo by myself for the test.

There are quite a few posts on here about study groups, but I don't know if they ever actually formed.

Good luck.

[Moldy Rutabaga]

Travelnguy's links are probably the best way to find the particulars. Korea does hold sittings for the paper test a few times a year. I also wrote the GRE English special test in Busan and it was only done twice a year at the time.

I wrote the paper test in '92 in Canada and found it a lot harder than the computer test. The computer test is not a replica of the paper test, and you can't go back and forth. What it seems to do is ask a question, and if you answer it the algorithms move you to a harder question. If not, you're given an easier question. The system is designed to progressively move you into brackets of questions matching your capabilities. As I remember, the paper test took me five hours and the computer one three. I would just do the whole thing at one time meself.