 We'll finish with this. When Helena Epstein was preparing to sit for the graduate record examination earlier this month, the GRE, she reached out to her older sister, Amelia. The Washington Post says Amelia delivered in the form of a voicemail she had saved from a GRE testing site in Boston three years earlier when she took the exam. As Amelia played it over FaceTime, 24-year-old Helena started to cry.