Hey, I feel for you, kind of. But don't misconstrue my words. I never said, paying for something is strange. Don't take my words out of context. And
DO NOT obfuscate this argument by infusing piracy with plain old cheating. The two are separate arguments.
If you went through an entire practice exam and saw no "live" questions, then fine. Good for you, you have a case. I'm talking about anyone who saw even just ONE "live" question.
Lives ruined? I just said that the scores should be VOIDED. I didn't say anything of expulsion. Only those who are proved to have knowingly practiced w/"live" questions should be expelled.
What I'm saying is that it's a bit negligent for anyone to haphazardly go to random websites and plunk down cash for a practice test, when all knowledgeable test takers know that ONLY the GMATPrep and
OG can even come close to emulating an actual gmat. Not PR, not
MGMAT, NOTHING comes even remotely close to it, so why would you go to a random website and plunk down cash for a crappy practice exam?
I'm not perfect nor do I claim to be. I'm not standing on a high pedestal passing judgment on everyone. But hell, I busted my a$$ for that test. As have MANY on this forum. And we did it fair. That is why it infuriates me that my score as well as those who studied their butt off (successfully and not) has been watered down by a bunch of cheaters.
Read the shared experience section (successful and not) and you might get a sense of what I'm talking about.
marg75 wrote:
kidderek,
not everyone is you and as intelligent - some of us pay for the material we want to use, and we also honestly assume that it's the right mateiral. you porbably used gmatclub, pr and something else, i used the same and beatgmat and in the end, as my story, scoretop - to me they were all similar sites. for me, paying isnt something "strange" like you make it to be - if i have to pay for a service, i pay it. in a case like this, i got screwed without my knowledge - and about "seeing the quesiton", well, i saw pretty much no quesiton as i went there for a full length test and it wasnt there. it's very nice to make very idealist comments and say everyone, regardless of what happened (or benefitted) should have their lives ruined, when you forget that every single forum had questions from various members and i can bet a lot of them, if you look closely, are not legitimate in GMACs eyes . Are you saying you closed your eyes to all of them and never read? by the same standard are all gmatclub members benefitting from improper posts in the math/verbal section? then are all those people guilty? someitmes you trust people and recommendations and you dont suspect everything single thing you see. i'm not advocating piracy, but the action must have some rationale and some intention needs to be proved...
what you saying is basically if i was member for 3 months, posted 1000 questions and debated in the forums, then it is the same as as if I got referred by mistake, did pretty much nothing, and walked away immediately. nice justice.
but u are so full of energy about this that i suppose you feel that is what it should be..
anyway i will let this forum know if possible what happens to me
kidderek wrote:
filmcity wrote:
But for the paid ones ( VIP section), there were different forums with restricted access! Now many might have registered themselves in haste, without looking at the feedbacks in net or even without realizing the forum admin's claim...then I don't know what will be the decision.
Yea, I'm one of the cheapos who never paid for any special feature of a website. And I never visited any other site besides gmatclub. I find it a little weird that all these test takers go to random websites to take practice tests. I prepared diligently, and efficiently which meant avoiding these bizarre websites where God-knows-who made the questions . I threw out the Kaplan book early in my prep and studied primarily from PR &
MGMAT. When you sign up at some unheard of website and even drop a few bucks for it, I have to wonder whether there's more to it.
With that said, ALL scores of people who used that website should be voided. Knowingly, unknowingly, it doesn't make a difference. Whether the live questions were encountered on their test or not, people who saw those questions had a clear edge.