STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The GRE General Test, an exam required for admission to many graduate school programs, will now take less than two hours to complete — roughly half the time of the current test.

The GRE, the nearly four-hour marathon of a test that has been the bane of many aspiring graduate students, is being cut in half. It will now take less than two hours. The Educational Testing Service, ...

Now in half the time, GRE remains the most widely used measure of graduate readiness "The changes we're announcing today underscore the emphasis we place on keeping our customers at the center of all ...