{"id":17844,"date":"2020-04-09T20:41:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T01:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/blog\/prep\/?p=17844"},"modified":"2020-09-11T20:40:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T20:40:00","slug":"when-and-how-to-reschedule-your-gre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpapp.kaptest.com\/study\/gre\/when-and-how-to-reschedule-your-gre\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Reschedule Your GRE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just because you\u2019re taking the GRE (and fitting\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/gre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GRE test prep<\/a>\u00a0into your schedule) doesn\u2019t mean that the unexpected can\u2019t and won\u2019t come up\u2014and the test maker,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ets.org\/gre\/revised_general\/register\/reschedule\/computer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ETS (Educational Testing Service)<\/a>, knows this.<br \/>\nSo even after you\u2019ve already scheduled your GRE test date, you still have the option to change it for a fee, as long as you do so no later than four days (ten days if you\u2019re in mainland China) before your scheduled date.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n\t<div  style='background:#ffffff;color:#444444;border-color:#7825ff;' class='av_promobox  avia-button-no   avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_heading  avia-builder-el-first '>\t\t<div class='avia-promocontent'><\/p>\n<h4>Stay on Top of Testing Updates<\/h4>\n<p>ETS has made testing updates in response to concerns about the spread of COVID-19.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/study\/gre\/taking-the-at-home-gre\/\">Learn more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<div  style='padding-bottom:10px; ' class='av-special-heading av-special-heading-h3    avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_promobox  el_before_av_heading  '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >What if I get sick on GRE Test Day?<\/h3><div class='special-heading-border'><div class='special-heading-inner-border' ><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\nThere may be instances in which it\u2019s too late to reschedule the GRE. For example, what if you get sick on GRE Test Day itself? One of our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/gre\/gre-prep-course\/gre-prep-options\/in-person#anywhere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GRE Prep Plus<\/a>\u00a0students faced this issue recently and emailed us the following question:<br \/>\n\u201cI never get sick, but this morning I woke up with a stomach bug. I have my GRE test this Friday morning! If I\u2019m still in a lot of pain tomorrow I\u2019m thinking I should reschedule my test. Wouldn\u2019t losing my money and having to pay again be better than getting a zero? The institution I\u2019m applying to requires that they receive all of my scores.\u201d<br \/>\nWe did a bit of research and encouraged her to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ets.org\/gre\/revised_general\/test_day\/policies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">get information about skipping her test date<\/a>\u00a0and to call ETS at 1-609-771-7670 or 1-866-473-4373 to get exact rules for her situation.<br \/>\nWhat she learned from her phone call to ETS is encouraging. Here\u2019s her follow-up email:<br \/>\n\u201cI feel better today, but I called ETS since I still have symptoms. They said I have a few options for rescheduling the exam:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I could fax a cover letter along with a doctor\u2019s letter, and they would investigate and advise me in 3\u20135 days whether they would give me a voucher to retake the test.<\/li>\n<li>If I start the test tomorrow but am unable to complete it, I will have to wait 21 days before retaking the exam.<\/li>\n<li>If I don\u2019t show for the test tomorrow, that would be better than starting and not completing the exam. A no-show is NOT scored, so grad schools would never know a student no-showed for the GRE.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prometric.com\/en-us\/Pages\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prometric<\/a>\u00a0(the company that administers the GRE) only sends information on tests that were scored, so no-show test dates would never be on a student\u2019s score report. Only Prometric, the student, and his\/her wallet would know about the no-show. Also, if a person no-shows, he\/she can re-pay the testing fee and take the test at any time. The student wouldn\u2019t have to wait 21 days, since the exam was never started.<br \/>\n<div  style='padding-bottom:10px; ' class='av-special-heading av-special-heading-h3    avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_sidebar  '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Reschedule or Skip?<\/h3><div class='special-heading-border'><div class='special-heading-inner-border' ><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\nSo the answer seems to be: If you have a test scheduled and don\u2019t feel well enough to take it when your GRE Test Day rolls around, don\u2019t. Simply don\u2019t show up.<br \/>\nYou will forfeit your fee, but you can schedule a new GRE test date as soon as you feel better. If you can secure and submit a doctor\u2019s note within the allowed time frame, you may even be able to retake the test without losing the fee. Either way, you won\u2019t have to wait the usual 21 days for your next GRE test date.<br \/>\nIf you\u2019re feeling pretty wobbly, you certainly can take the chance that you\u2019ll perform well by taking the test anyway. On the other hand, if your illness impacts your performance and you fall short of your\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/study\/gre\/whats-a-good-gre-score\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">score goal<\/a>, you will still have to wait those three weeks to take the test again, and of course you\u2019ll definitely have to pay the fee again, as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><div  class='avia-builder-widget-area clearfix  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_heading  avia-builder-el-last '><div id=\"text-70\" class=\"widget clearfix widget_text\">\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><p><span data-sumome-listbuilder-embed-id=\"a78fe19e226d385662749ccaadcdccd7ecdcab651c77e3b874bfcb76a80605a7\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><div id=\"text-71\" class=\"widget clearfix widget_text\">\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><p><span data-sumome-listbuilder-embed-id=\"185e834399a9fdd414ded52f3f51a4735f464b8c612f006f44ffba835a649b4f\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just because you\u2019re taking the GRE (and fitting\u00a0GRE test prep\u00a0into your schedule) doesn\u2019t mean that the unexpected can\u2019t and won\u2019t come up\u2014and the test maker,\u00a0ETS (Educational Testing Service), knows this. So even after you\u2019ve already scheduled your GRE test date, you still have the option to change it for a fee, as long as you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[68],"tags":[69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpapp.kaptest.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpapp.kaptest.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpapp.kaptest.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpapp.kaptest.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpapp.kaptest.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpapp.kaptest.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33840,"href":"https:\/\/wpapp.kaptest.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17844\/revisions\/33840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpapp.kaptest.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpapp.kaptest.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpapp.kaptest.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpapp.kaptest.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}