<p>I live in the regions where ETS decided to put a split-test adminstration (computer- based for AWA and paper-based for the rest; for detail read this [PDF](<a href=“http://www.ets.org/Media/Tests/GRE/pdf/bulletin_supplement05-06.pdf]PDF[/url]”>http://www.ets.org/Media/Tests/GRE/pdf/bulletin_supplement05-06.pdf)</a>) for GRE General test, but I missed the deadline for the June exam, and the next test is in October which seemed a bit too late for me(is it, for Fall 2007 admissions?)</p>
<p>If I, for this reason, tok a CBT test in a foreign country where CBT test is administered, would it raise a red flag for adcoms?</p>
<p>Thanks for the answer in advance!</p>
<p>Check to see when your applications will be due. If you don’t have a list of schools yet, look at the deadlines for a bunch of programs and get an idea of the earliest deadline. My application deadlines were between December 1 and January 15, so it was fine for me to take the GRE in October (I took it at the beginning of October). But, I know that other fields have different deadlines.</p>
<p>Plus, it looks like your scores will take longer – I live in the United States, so I got mine within one or two weeks. But you might be cutting it too close if you have December deadlines, and your scores don’t come til Dec. 2nd.</p>
<p>I don’t know anything about taking the test in a different country, but I don’t see why anyone would care. Most online applications asked for my scores and percentages, but they didn’t ask for the test location. It might be on the official scores that get mailed, but I don’t see why that would be a red flag.</p>
<p>I would take the CBT. Like False Alarm said, I don;t think they look at where the test was taken, but the reason the test is OK to take outside of China is there aren’t testing irregularities outside of China. So it wouldn’t make a difference. It will make a big difference, though, if you don’t get your schores on time, and being overseas and taking a split test means you’ll be cutting it close, even for a Jan 1 deadline (we all know how bad ETS can be).</p>
<p>The problem about CBT in CN, HK, TW and KR is that people share questions on the Internet from the test question bank from which CBT questions come from, hence some people know many of those questions even before they went to the venue. Yes, <em>where</em> they took the test didn’t matter, but the <em>type</em> of test might matter.</p>
<p>This is also the reason why ETS decided the GRE iBT (Due 2007) to be adminstered in 30 days a year only. Changing the question bank 24 times a year is inordinately costly.</p>
<p>I took it in Tokyo (CAT), and nobody cared.</p>