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Covid-19 test: required or not at the test center?

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Covid-19 test: required or not at the test center? [#permalink] New post   06 May 2021, 07:41
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I just have a question... Am i required to provide a Covid-19 negative test results on the test day at the test-center? There is an information on the GMAT covid web page such as "You will not be admitted to the test center and should reschedule your exam if…You have tested positive for COVID-19". There is no information about any covid test results required though. So i will be very grateful for helping me to make clear this information! Thank you!

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Re: Covid-19 test: required or not at the test center? [#permalink] New post   06 May 2021, 10:40
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Hi everyone!
I just have a question... Am i required to provide a Covid-19 negative test results on the test day at the test-center? There is an information on the GMAT covid web page such as "You will not be admitted to the test center and should reschedule your exam if…You have tested positive for COVID-19". There is no information about any covid test results required though. So i will be very grateful for helping me to make clear this information! Thank you!

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Hi. It is a really good question. GMAC/Pearson Vue do not have a requirement to submit a COVID-19 test before taking the GMAT. However, some testing centers have added that requirement. I have seen several users refer to it about 2 months ago in certain Indian testing centers (they got a very small reference to this at the bottom of their test appointment confirmation email

Here is the discussion mid-way: https://gmatclub.com/forum/issue-gmat-e ... l#p2736058


Your best course of action is to check your confirmation email and perhaps call your test center specifically. GMAC may not know as there may be different local regulations that the test center is subject to.

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Re: Covid-19 test: required or not at the test center? [#permalink] New post   06 May 2021, 11:14
Thank you so much for your reply! I've checked my confirmation email (i registered on GMAT in february) and there is no any requirement about COVID test results specifically from the test center (it's in Russia).
In the FIRST confirmation email there is only: "All candidates must wear face mask and gloves in the Test center".
This is placed after the adress of the test center. There are no any information about the covid test properly in emails that i recieved after the registration. Does this mean all is ok and i don't need to panic about it and do the covid test for the GMAT?

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Covid-19 test: required or not at the test center? [#permalink] New post   06 May 2021, 11:20
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If you have registered for the test back in February. The regulations may have changed since. The only way to find out would be to call the test center to verify this information. At the same time, you’re definitely going above the call of duty since you are proactively researching this rather than getting a notification or information from the test center itself.

Honestly, I don’t know how else to verify it. This does not appear to be a common policy outside of India and even with in India, it’s only affecting the number of test centers.

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Re: Covid-19 test: required or not at the test center? [#permalink] New post   06 May 2021, 11:33
Yeah, it's true that i didn't get any notification about it from the test center itself. Moreover, i just accidently thought about it and decided to ask here.
I read this post you sent me about India and even there people are writing that it's crazy and they never heard about it... Anyway, i think they should've sent me information in that case. I will ask them but i'm just glad that it's absolutely not a common thing in all centers.
Thank you so much again! You really helped me cause i've already started to panic; there is no possibility to do this test fo free without specific symptoms in my country.

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Re: Covid-19 test: required or not at the test center? [#permalink] New post   06 May 2021, 11:36
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Sure. Happy to help. Good luck! Sorry to have to deal with it.

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