I didn’t have Flash on my computer for several years, but I installed it last week. I'm planning to take the GRE, which is being given remotely due to Covid. A proctor watches you through your webcam, which I find this completely creepy, but what can I do?
I took the GRE in 2011 and I recall driving to a strip mall in rural Seattle and sitting in front of a Dell PC, underneath moldy ceiling tiles, and doing the test on some kind of virtualized, _greyscale_ Windows 3.1 environment. My memory may be exaggerating at this point, but it was shockingly old.
My wife is currently in didactic year of PA school. When they went remote, there was a period of about half a day when they told all of the students they had to turn on their cameras (but not their mic) via Zoom during every test the rest of the year. They changed their minds quickly when they realized most of the students were not on board with it and most of the faculty didn't want to have to 'proctor' over Zoom.
The tide is starting to change although it is departmental specific. In biology, some of the best departments in the nation are waiving the GRE because wouldn't you know, being able to do high school algebra in a certain amount of time and having a wide nonscientific vocabulary are not good predictors of your ability as a scientist.
If that were the case, they'd have to be also seeing fewer applicants, or opening up more spots for students. (Since I'm not familiar with what GP is referring to, I can't say if that's the case, but they would be much better indicators.)
Somewhere you can get a masters (or doctorate) degree; "grad" here is short for "graduate", which is used to describe degrees one gets after receiving a bachelors (or "undergraduate" degree). Most major colleges in the US offer both graduate and undergraduate degrees, but the admissions process for a graduate degree is separate; once you get an undergraduate degree from an institution, you still need to apply to enroll in a graduate program there or elsewhere. It's not at all uncommon for people to attend grad school somewhere different than they went to undergrad, especially if they don't attend grad school immediately after undergrad (as some people work for several years before deciding to go back and get a masters degree).
I just learned that while in the US "grad school" means "after an undergrad/bachelor degree", in the UK, the term is "post-grad". Not to be confused with post-doc.
And in many countries, you can do bachelors, masters and PhD at 3 different institutions. But in the US, usually you have to do masters-PhD in one institution, even if you already have a masters (or is this only in my field?). In other countries, such as France, bachelor-masters is common to do together, in only 4-5 years (or is this only in my field?).
"But in the US, usually you have to do masters-PhD in one institution, even if you already have a masters"
That is definitely field specific. I think physics often bundles masters/PhD together. And maybe there others too. But for all of the fields of engineering that I'm familiar with they are completely separate programs.
> In other countries, such as France, bachelor-masters is common to do together, in only 4-5 years (or is this only in my field
Some schools in the US offer this to undergrads as well; the fancy term that some schools use for this is "submatriculation", which people sometimes shorten to "submat".
Outside of the USA, it wouldn't be a degree, just a diploma. And there would be a distinction between a college that awards diplomas and a degree-granting universtity (which, to make matters more complicated than necessary, usually has member colleges which are not the same as the non-university colleges that award skills/technical diplomas).
Anyway, this system apparently requires Flash.