About the GRE General Test Independent Intellectual Activity During the scoring process for the Gene ral Test, your essay responses on the Analyti- cal Writing section will be reviewed by ETS essay-similarity-detection software and by experienced raters. In light of the high value placed on independent intellectual activity within graduate schools and universities, your essay response should represent your original work. ETS reserves the right to cancel test scores of any test taker when an essay response includes any of the following:
b Text that is unusually similar to that found in one or more other GRE essay responses b Quoting or paraphrasing, without attribution, language that appears in any published or unpublished sources, including sources from the internet and/or sources provided by any third party b Unacknowledged use of work that has been produced through collaboration with others without citation of the contribution of others b Essays submitted as work of the test taker that appear to have been borrowed in whole or in part from elsewhere or prepared by another person When one or more of the above circumstances occurs, ETS may conclude, in its professional judgment, that the essay response does not refl ect the independent writing skills that this test seeks to measure.
When ETS reaches that conclusion, it cancels the Analytical Writing scores, and because Analytical Writing scores are an integral part of GRE General Test scores, those scores are canceled as well. Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning Measures of the Computer-delivered Test For the Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning measures of the computer- delivered GRE General Test, the reported scores are based on the number of correct responses to the questions included in the actual sections of the measure. The Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning measures are section-level adaptive.
This means the computer selects the second section of a measure based on your performance on the fi rst section. Within each section, all questions contribute equally to the fi nal score. For each of the two measures, a raw score is computed. The raw score is the number of questions you answered correctly. The raw score is then converted to a scaled score through a process known as equating. The equating process accounts for minor variations in diffi culty from test to test as well as the differences introduced by the section-level adaptation.
Thus a given scaled score for a particular measure refl ects the same level of performance regardless of which second section was selected and when the test was taken. Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning Measures of the Paper-delivered Test Scoring of the Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning measures is essentially a two-step process. First a raw score is computed for each measure. The raw score for each measure is the number of questions answered correctly in the two sections for that measure. 8 8