New York: The US-based Educational Testing Service has cancelled a graduate-level computer science test for Indian and Chinese students because some Asian websites had posted answers to earlier papers, but said that the general test has not been restricted in any manner in India.

Some misunderstanding had arisen among Indian students who mistakenly believed that upcoming administrations of the GRE (graduate record examinations) General Test have been cancelled, the Educational Testing Service (ETS), based in New Jersey, said.

The confusion, ETS said, followed its instruction to GRE Board to cancel the computer science test in India and China in the 2002-03 testing year.

The students who had registered for the test would be sent full refund of the money they deposited, it said.

ETS said that it expects to resume the test in the fall of 2003.

In the absence of GRE Computer Science Test scores, the GRE Board says that applicants to graduate programmes in computer science are to highlight their other key credentials like grade point average in relevant courses, work experience, and letters of recommendation.

The GRE Board is also informing Computer Science Test score users that students from India and China will not have an opportunity to take the Computer Science Subject Test and that institutions should use other evidence presented by the applicant in their decision making process.

PTI