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Article: Educational Testing Service
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EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE
EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE.
The Educational Testing Service (ETS) is a nonprofit testing and measurement organization founded in 1947 and headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey. ETS administers more than 12 million tests annually, including the SAT (formerly called the Scholastic Aptitude Test), Graduate Record Exam (GRE), Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT), Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), and Praxis Series (Professional Assessments for Beginning Teachers) examinations. These tests are used to help evaluate candidates for admission to under-graduate-and graduate-level institutions of higher learning. The organization is expressly ...