It was a typical scene of major exams: test takers anxiously flipped through materials, hoping that it might give them a final boost to their performance. The more confident ones might be anxious about other things. For example: why did the final five minutes before the exam take so long? Why couldn't they go through the administrative stuff quicker and let us go right into it? All the similar questions had gone through my mind before, when I was one of the test takers. But I had switched role today. I was there offering some moral support to a friend taking the paper portion of the Split GRE General Test at NTU's Sin Sheng Building.