English used in GRE essays

[suryab]

If my medium of education was in British English, shouild I write the essay in the same or use US english (talking w.r.t. words e.g. traveller(UK) or traveler(US) )

[stew.t.]

Hi suryab

I would suggest you enquire with your educational establishment as to the rules and regulations.

In some countries such as Germany, as long as there is a consistency it should be accepted to write a paper in American English; even if you are doing Anglistics (English studies; language, literaure and culture). However I have known individual teachers/professors mark a student down for wrong usage of English when all they were really doing was using the so called "unaccepted" variation the teacher does not like.

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[Yankee]

Hi suryab

Although the GRE is an American examination, I doubt very much that writing your essay in "British English" would be a big problem. Make sure you are consistent and don't use slang.
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[sandls816]

Also spelling mistakes are not taken in consideration when they are grading essays as long as they don't inhibit readers understanding. So i don't think you should worry about British spelling differences like "traveller". Where it might become an issue is using phrases that are not used in American English