• Personal items other than identification documents are not allowed in the testing room. This includes any phones, PDAs, all watches, including digital, analog and smartwatches and other electronic, recording, listening, scanning or photographic devices. If test takers are seen using or accessing any of these electronic devices and/or transmitting data, including but not limited to text messaging, email and photographs, test takers device may be inspected and/or confiscated. Test takers may not access their phone during the test or during breaks to check messages, make a call or check the time.


• Test takers may be required to remove their eyeglasses for close visual inspection. The inspection will take a few seconds and will be done at check-in and upon return from breaks.


• Jewelry is prohibited, except for wedding and engagement rings. Do not wear other jewelry to the test center.


• Clothing and other personal items that include, but are not limited to, hair accessories, neckties, bowties, hats, scarves, jackets, and outerwear are subject to inspection by the test center administrator. Refrain from wearing such items as tie clips, cuff links, ornate clips, combs, barrettes, headbands, and other hair accessories on test day, as test-takers may be prohibited from wearing them in the testing room.


• Before the test, test-takers will receive instructions from test center staff regarding where to store personal items. Test takers may also be asked to empty their pockets. Test takers will not have access to their personal items during the test administration except for food, beverages, and medications, which may be accessed during their break.


• If Test taker fails to follow the instructions of the test center staff, test takers will not be permitted to test and their test fee will not be refunded. Any violation of this procedure during the test or during breaks may result in dismissal from the test and/or cancellation of scores.


• Test centers and ETS assume no responsibility for personal items, including watches, jewelry or devices that test-takers choose to bring into the test center.

For example, someone copying from another test taker, taking a test for someone else, having access to test questions before the exam, or using notes or unauthorized aids. All information will be held in the strictest confidence. Reports of cheating will be investigated thoroughly and offenders may be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the applicable laws.

A test administrator is authorized to dismiss test takers from a test session and/or their scores may be withheld and ultimately canceled for any actions that violate the policies and procedures set forth herein and/or communicated at the test center including, but not limited to:

• Attempting to take the test for someone else or having someone else take the test for test-takers.


• Failing to provide acceptable identification.


• Obtaining improper access to the test, a part of the test or information about the test. This includes having test questions or answers in advance of the test administration and bringing pre-knowledge of test information into the test center and any form including, but not limited to, identification documents, prohibited devices and any other method listed as an aid in connection to the test.


• Using or having any prohibited device in test-taker possession in the test center. Any phones, PDAs, all watches, including digital, analog and smartwatches, and other electronic, recording, listening and photographic devices are not permitted in the test center. If test-takers bring them into the test center, test takers will be dismissed from the test, their test fees will be forfeited and their scores will be canceled even if the dismissal is not enforced on the day of the test. Test administrators are not permitted to collect and hold cell phones or any other devices. If test takers are seen using or accessing any of these devices and/or transmitting data, including but not limited to text messaging, email and photographs, their device may be inspected and/or confiscated. Test takers may not access their phone during the test or during breaks to check messages or to check the time.


• Using any aids in connection with the test, including, without limitation: mechanical pencils, mechanical erasers, pens, pagers, beepers, calculators, books, pamphlets, notes, unauthorized scratch paper, rulers, highlighter pens, scan pens or scanning devices, dictionaries, translators, compasses, protractors, and any handheld electronic, scanning, listening, recording or photographic devices.


• Creating a disturbance (Disruptive behavior in any form will not be tolerated; the test administrator has sole discretion in determining what constitutes disruptive behavior.)


• Attempting to give or receive assistance - Communication in any form is not permitted during the test administration. Discussion or sharing of test content or answers during the test administration, including breaks, and after the test administration, is prohibited.


• Removing or attempting to remove test content from the test center. Under no circumstances may test content or any part of the test content be removed, reproduced, and/or disclosed by any means (e.g., hard copy, verbally, electronically) to any person or entity.


• Tampering with a computer during a computer-delivered test administration.


• Attempting to remove scratch paper from the computer-delivered testing room or using scratch paper before the test, during untimed sections of the test or during breaks.


• Bringing a weapon or firearm into the test center.


• Bringing food, beverages or tobacco into the testing room.


• Leaving the test center vicinity during the test session or during breaks.


• Leaving the testing room without permission. Test takers are not permitted to go outside the test center building unless it is to use the restroom during the test administration, including during breaks.


• Taking excessive or extended unscheduled breaks during the test session. Test center administrators are required to strictly monitor unscheduled breaks and report test takers who take excessive or extended breaks.


• Referring to, looking through, or working on any test, or test section, when not authorized to do so, or working after time has been called.


• Failing to follow any of the test administration regulations contained on the GRE website, given by the test administrator or specified in any test materials.