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- Title
An analysis on the validity of the lexicon required by GRE® test takers.
- Authors
Segarra Costaguta Mattos, Maria Teresa
- Abstract
The GRE® (General Record Examinations) Revised General Test is a standardized graduate admissions test, which is administered by ETS (Educational Testing Service) and taken by 675,000 students yearly. Requiring an effortful preparation from students, the score achieved by the student in the test greatly determines, along with other criteria, their admission to graduate school programs. Books which prepare for the GRE® test usually indicate a list of words to be learnt or memorized by the test-takers, words which frequently appeared on the test in previous years. Once the test takers are approved in the school of their choice, however, will this vocabulary be in fact put to use, as originally intended by ETS? To investigate the validity of the lexicon required by GRE® test takers, we analyzed the word list from the preparation book Cracking the New Gre 2012 according to its frequency in the academic section of COCA.
- Subjects
LEXICON; EDUCATIONAL tests &; measurements; EDUCATIONAL testing services; SCHOOL admission; CORPORA
- Publication
Brazilian English Language Teaching Journal, 2012, Vol 3, Issue 1, p117
- ISSN
2178-3640
- Publication type
Article