The ETS sends your score to four universities free. But, if you want to sent Additional GRE Score Reports (ASRs) to more universities, you have to order them by mail or by phone. Here’s how.
BY MAIL OR FAX
- Download and complete the Additional Score Report Form or use the form found in the center of the Bulletin.
- Mail it with the fee to the address on the form.
- The fee is U.S. $23 per score recipient.
- Requests are processed within 10 working days after receipt.
- Faxed requests are accepted if you pay by credit card (American Express, Discover, JCB, MasterCard, or VISA). The fax number is 1-610-290-8975.
- Once a request and fee is mailed or faxed, it cannot be canceled, changed, or refunded.
- If paying by demand draft, make your draft payable to “ETS-GRE”
Mail to:
ETS-ASR/GRE
Box 371463
Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7463
USA
BY PHONE
- Before you call, have the following information ready:
- registration number, Social Security number or confirmation number
- test date
- date of birth
- institution code(s) and department code(s)
Call:
- 1-609-771-7290
- Timings: 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. EST, 7 days a week (3:30 pm – 7:30 am IST)
- Wait for confirmation before hanging up to be sure your request is completed. Once information is entered, changes cannot be made.
- Score reports will be mailed to you and to your designated institutions approximately five working days after your call. You must wait until your scores are initially reported before you can use this service.
- This phone service allows you to request up to eight score recipients. To request more than eight, please call again.
- Requests for “Test Taker Copies Only” or changes in your mailing address cannot be processed through this service.
Also see: Registering for the GRE Test, Rescheduling and Cancelling Your Test
REGISTERING FOR THE GRE TEST
There are four ways you can register for the computer-based General Test.
1. Online Registration
The easiest and fastest way to register is online. Test takers with credit cards can register online at:
- American Express, Discover, JCB, MasterCard, and VISA are accepted.
- Registration is open 24 hours a day.
2. Phone
- Prometric, Gurgaon Registration Phone: 91-124-4147700
- Use American Express, Discover, JCB, MasterCard, VISA.
- Call the appropriate Regional Registration Center (RRC) at least two business days before your preferred test date.
- A confirmation number, reporting time, and the test center address will be given to you when you call.
3. FAX
- Use American Express, Discover, JCB, MasterCard, VISA, or a voucher number.
- Fax the International Test Scheduling Form to Prometric, Gurgaon
- Fax: 91-124-4147773
- The form must be received at least seven days before your first-choice test date.
- A confirmation number, reporting time, and the test center address will be faxed or mailed to you.
- If you do not receive a confirmation of your appointment, call the appropriate RRC at least three business days before your first-choice test date. If you missed your appointment and did not call the RRC, your test fee will not be refunded. If you provide an e-mail address, you may receive a confirmation by e-mail.
4. Mail
Mail the International Test Scheduling Form to:
Prometric Testing Private Limited
2nd floor
DFL Infinity Tower–A
Sector 25, Phase II
DFL City Gurgaon
Haryana 122002
India
- A confirmation number, reporting time, and the test center address will be faxed or mailed to you.
- If you do not receive a confirmation, call Prometric at least three business days before your first-choice test date.
- If you miss your appointment and did not call Prometric, your test fee will not be refunded.
- If you provide an e-mail address, you may receive a confirmation by e-mail.
- You can also make the payment by draft. Make the draft payable to “ETS – GRE”.
RESCHEDULING OR CANCELING A TEST APPOINTMENT
- You must reschedule or cancel your test no later than three full days before your appointment (not including the day of your test or the day of your request) or your test fee will be forfeited.
- To reschedule or cancel your appointment call: 1-443-751-4820, or Prometric, Gurgaon 91-124-4147700
- The fee for rescheduling the date, time, or location of your appointment is $50.
- If you cancel your General Test no later than three full days prior to your test date, you will receive a refund equivalent to half of the original test fee.
- You will need your Confirmation/Tracking Number to cancel or reschedule the test.
IMPORTANT CONTACT DETAILS
1. GRE Test Scheduling (Prometric Centre in India)
Prometric Testing Private Limited
2nd floor
DFL Infinity Tower–A
Sector 25, Phase II
DFL City Gurgaon
Haryana 122002
India
2. Phone Registration: 91-124-4147700
3. Fax: 91-124-4147773
4. GRE General Inquiries (Do Not Use for Test Scheduling)
(a) Phone:
- 1-609-771-7670
- Monday–Friday 8:00 a.m.–7:45 p.m. EST (except for U.S. holidays)
- (5:30 pm – 5:15 am IST)
(b) Mail:
GRE—ETS
PO Box 6000
Princeton, NJ 08541-6000
Note: DO NOT mail registration forms to this address.
(c) Courier:
GRE
Distribution and Receiving Center
225 Phillips Boulevard
Ewing, NJ 08628-7435
(d) E-mail: gre-info@ets.org
Also see: Getting Additional GRE Score Reports
Earlier we had launched our new portal to help students applying for an MS in US – it’s called Dilip Oak Academy Online. It had lots of nifty features to begin with, but today we made it even more cooler with two cool new features: US University Admission News Updates & Roommate Finder!
US University Admissions News Updates:
Interested in keeping track of who is getting admits/rejects to which universities? Interested in finding which universities have started rolling out admission decisions? Well now you can get all the updates in your admissions news feed! (As long as you have applied to the University in Application Tracker).
Also if you want to get admissions updates for a given university? Check out “Admission Updates” tab under university info!
One of the many hard things to do while applying is to find other students who are already in your desired US university. Finding and meeting other students who are heading to the same US university as you are is another problem. Well, both problems have certainly become easier to solve now with out Roommate finder! As long as you have updated your application status you can find other students going to the same university as you are!
We are hoping you would enjoy these features!
Tell your friends to join Dilip Oaks Academy Online (its free to join!) and update their admission updates. As more people join this app, it will get more and more useful! But, even now we have enough to make it really useful to you!
Let us know how we are doing, we love your feedback: support@dilipoakacademy.com
For students who have given the GRE several times, the worry has always been that the universities they are sending the scores to will see their bad scores along with their good ones. Now, however that is going to change.
The ETS has introduced a feature which it calls the ScoreSelectSM Option which allows you to select which GRE scores you want to send to the universities and colleges you are applying to. Here are the details according to ETS :
“Test takers can now select from several options.
On test day, when viewing their scores at the test center*, they can select the:
- ScoreSelect Most Recent option — Send their GRE scores from their current test administration (FREE).
- ScoreSelect All option — Send their GRE scores from all administrations in the last 5 years (FREE).
Test takers can decide which option to use for each of their 4 FREE score reports.
After test day, test takers can send Additional Score Reports for a fee and select:
- ScoreSelect Most Recent option — Send their GRE scores from their most recent test administration.
- ScoreSelect All option — Send their GRE scores from all administrations in the last 5 years.
- ScoreSelect Any option — Send their GRE scores from one OR many test administrations in the last 5 years.
Scores for a test administration must be reported in their entirety.”
For more details visit this page:
The SOP, an essay of specified length which brings out your academic and professional background and achievements, is a uniquely important document. It is a crucial element of your application for MS/PhD programs in American universities.
The SOP, and other application documents such as your application form, standardized test scores, transcripts and recommendation letters, provide essential inputs that admissions committees use to assess your suitability as a candidate for a particular program. Each document has a fairly definite role in the committee’s final decision.. Application forms, test scores and transcripts are standard documents. But the SOP and the recommendation letters have a great influence on the admission decision.
The recommendation letter, which will be discussed in a later post, carries weight because it is ideally written by someone who knows the field and also knows you. The SOP, however, is an essay written by you. As such, it bears the stamp of your personality and writing skills. As the name indicates, the Statement of Purpose discusses what you intend to do in your professional life, but it does not end there. Your SOP should be a highly analytical document which clearly demonstrates your need for higher education and, equally important, why the particular university is an appropriate choice to meet your needs. This requires that you have a clear vision of:
- your career goals
- how you have taken the first steps towards achieving them in your education so far and
- what other concrete steps you propose to take in your MS/PhD program – these might be in the form of advanced or new courses, or research in specific topics of your interest
Throughout the essay you will have to keep in focus both your learning goals and how higher education will help you to achieve them.
This requirement for clarity about goals means that you should have a clear focus in your SOP. Thus, you can elaborate on your interests in specific areas such as Operating Systems, Embedded Systems and Thermodynamics. However, the focus can be also be on broad fields such as Mechanical Engineering, or Electrical Engineering. Your undergraduate studies should enable you to intelligently discuss the importance of a few sub-areas in the subject of your choice, and illustrate the scope for higher level work in them.
A well written SOP conveys at once to the reader your intellectual caliber, your commitment to the subject and your awareness of the current state in your field. It fills the gaps in the information provided by the standardized documents mentioned above. It also conveys things about you which no standardized document can convey adequately: among other things, your depth of knowledge, your love for the subject and your ability to communicate his knowledge clearly.
Any good university has to make a final selection of students from the pool of candidates who meet their basic criteria regarding academic background, GRE score and previous research experience. The SOP brings out the qualitative aspects of the work a student has done and his or her personal traits. And here is where the great importance of the SOP lies: a good SOP makes the difference between otherwise equally well qualified candidates. It effectively brings out your understanding of the field, your preparation for higher studies and research in that field and your achievements in that field. If your aim is getting into a good university, it is well-worth spending time on preparing an SOP that is excellent. It could make the difference between a reject and that coveted admission.
Related Links