educational testing service website prometric prometric also known as prometric testing is a u.s. company in the test administration industry . prometric operates a test center network composed of thousands of sites in 160 countries . many examinations are administered at prometric sites including those from nmls the european personnel selection office the medical college admission test mcat the graduate record examinations gre usmle the diplomate of national board common entrance test of national board of examinations the uniform certified public accountant examination architect registration examination the uspto registration examination and american petroleum institute . prometric s corporate headquarters are located in canton baltimore maryland in the united states . contents 1 history 2 business 3 challenges 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit prometric s computerized testing centers were originally founded by drake international in 1990 under the name drake prometric . 1 in 1995 drake prometric l.p. was sold to sylvan learning in a cash and stock deal worth approximately 44.5 million . 2 the acquired business was renamed sylvan prometric then sold to thomson corporation in 2000 . 3 the thomson corporation announced its desire to sell prometric in the fall of 2006 and educational testing service announced its plans to acquire it . 4 on monday october 15 2007 educational testing service ets closed its acquisition of prometric from the thomson corporation . 5 prometric is currently a wholly owned independently operated subsidiary of ets allowing ets to maintain non profit status . business edit prometric sells a range of services including test development test delivery and data management capabilities . prometric delivers and administers tests to approximately 500 clients in the academic professional government corporate and information technology markets . while there are 3000 prometric test centers across the world 6 including every u.s. state and territory except wake island whether a particular test can be taken outside the u.s. depends on the testing provider . for example despite the fact that prometric test centers exist worldwide some exams are only offered in the country where the client program exists . the locations where a test is offered as well as specific testing procedures for the day of the exam are dictated by the client . in the republic of ireland prometric s local subsidiary is responsible for administering the driver theory test . 7 challenges edit in 2009 the company faced a hurdle due to widespread technical problems on one of india s mba entrance exams the common admission test . over 8000 test takers were affected . 8 in 2014 prometric lost the bid for conducting it second time to an indian tech firm . 9 in 2014 a latency issue affected one prometric administered test namely the aipgmee . 10 see also edit national registry of food safety professionals national restaurant association references edit drake international early years sylvan to acquire test firm thomson acquires prometric ets news ets to acquire prometric press releases . thomson reuters 2013 06 30 . retrieved on 2013 08 17 . qai india ltd announces a partnership with prometric the official irish rsa driver theory test booking site . theorytest.ie . retrieved on 2013 08 17 . time of india viruses cause cat failure cat 2014 exam why tcs got cat 2014 and prometric lost medicos irked by technical glitches in nbe exams external links edit prometric website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title prometric & oldid 743279807 categories companies based in baltimorepsychometrics1990 establishments in marylandcompanies established in 1990 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 8 october 2016 at 23 20 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view