Horrible GRE Test
November 8th, 2004
Last Friday I took my wife to Camarillo to have her GRE test. Camarillo is a nice city but she’s 50+ miles away from Goleta, where the UCSB and my place resides. Don’t UCSB students take GRE tests? Why there’s no test center in Santa Barbara? Too tough for me to figure it out …
Well, we got up 5:00 AM and on the move on 6:00 AM. After squeezing through 101’s traffic, we arrived at Camarillo’s Prometric at 7:30 AM, just in time to attend her 8:00 AM test. Wonder why 8:00 AM? Because other time slots are booked MONTHS AGO! Bill, the supervisor at Camarillo Prometric, complained to me that they are always full every day. Sure you got full every day, because your test center covers Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Thousand Oaks. That’s three counties and thousands of students, and you want cover it with merely 20 computers. Great profit model, and I should buy Prometric stocks.
My wife went into the test room on 7:50 and finished her test on 12:30. No break, no rest, no nothing. The reason that she was kept in for so long because ETS asks “Do you want to participate our survey?” and she answered yes. As a result, ETS wanted her to do the Quantative tests (that’s the math part) twice, one for real test and one for survey.
So keep in mind, the default answer is NO. These ETS freaks are sick and they like to torture test takers.
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