Revised GRE Test Scores are available

[lordvader]

I am happy with my results

Q: 168

V: 156

AW: 5

[secondarydefinitions]

Do they still just give individual percentiles, or are there composite percentiles now?

[gradcafe26]

People always say that the role of GRE in the admission process has been diminishing in recent years. Is it possible that the revised exam would (partially) reverse this trend? If so, how do you compare applicants with old and new GRE scores?

[RWBG]

To the extent that such a trend exists (I'm not sure I see the evidence of that being the case) I don't see any reason why the new test would reverse the trend. The verbal section is a bit better, in that it's less focused on vocabulary knowledge than the old test, and more focused on reasoning. However, it's not different enough that I expect it'll change anyone's opinion on the test drastically. The quant section, on the other hand, isn't much different except that it has a bit more range at the top; you can now go beyond the old max of 94th percentile. So I can't imagine anyone treating it that differently than the old test, at least in polisci where scores close to 800 were the exception instead of the norm (relative to say, economics.)

As far as comparing old scores with new, they have new score predictions based on your old scores, and vice versa. For example, my V740 Q800 score had a predicted conversion of V169 Q166.