Your announcement of the writing test scores for the GRE on March 15 in Mainland China has stirred up huge reverberations among test takers in Mainland China. That is mainly because, according to our survey, that the average GRE writing scores for March 15 lowered up to 0.5-1.0, compared with the scores from the similar paper-based test last November. As is known to all, the results from tests given by ETS are widely accepted by universities for its fairness as the most important reason. We think that lacking sufficient proof of vast discrepancy in writing abilities of GRE takers of the two tests,their average scores should be basically consistent, thus to reflect the fairness of the test. The unusual discrepancy between the writing scores of the two tests, however, has directly thrown the March-15 GRE takers into an unfairly disadvantageous position in university admission. Furthermore, we have other queries about the rating standard and methods of the GRE Writing test. We believe answers to those queries will promote a more effective participation in GRE test.
Therefore, we would like to request:
1)to make public the statistic data of the GRE writing test scores from November and March tests;
2)to clarify the vast discrepancy to test takers should there be any existing in the scores of the two tests;
3)to make public the statistic data of the scores from computer-administrated GRE and paper-based GRE tests for fairness, and to clarify discrepancy should there be any, for we believe that computer-administrated GRE and paper-based GRE tests have different impacts on test scores. 4)to illustrate with examples of the circumstances under which the charge of articles identical in contents is applied.
Your quick response would be very much appreciated.