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Friday, December 25, 2009

Chinese GMAT cheating

Recently, an article came in Business week magazine which mentioned that the Chinese were cheating in the GMAT exams and there were many cases reported. There was an instance in which a woman had impersonated persons and took the test for eight different persons. There were touts who went to the exam just for memorizing the questions which appeared in the test and later reporting the questions to the companies generating some money for both the parties. Also, a website in China was giving ACTUAL GMAT questions to students who paid a few dollars to them. That company was sued by GMAC for some thousands of dollars and the website was ordered to display what happened to it due to its cheating and similar actions would be taken on other companies. One of the things to be noted from this incident is that GMAC had got access to the database of the students who had registered with the firm. Some students scores were cancelled - those who had reported that the questions which had come for them was also there in the website. I remember getting an email sometime back where a similar incident had happened elsewhere with GMAC taking similar action. It is good that GMAC is taking this action so that only the deserving students will get an admit. Also, the business schools too do not place too much emphasis on GMAT and differentiate the levels of competencies of students by their GPA, leadership and extra-curricular skills and an interview too.

1 comment:

  1. lol its so easy to cheat on SAT's... (haven't done it but everyone in my school knows) there were these guys in my class stored formulas in their c alculators

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