GMAT Cheating Ring Busted In India - 6 Arrested + Russian Hackers

Delay is not an issue for me as I am targeting R1 next session. Was really shocked when saw the administrative review mail, but have settled in and ready to wait a month or half. Trying to prepare for the next stage of the application process.

I cannot even imagine. I don’t know what’s better or worse but in the early days, in October, you would not get an email or an answer or a score. Basically you would get nothing and no one would tell you and there was no indication when your score would become available. Drove people insane. I don’t know if getting an email about review is better 🤷‍♂️😬 May be a little better. There was also a whole bunch of people who took the test in June and July and then received administrative review email in November. That was an unpleasant surprise 3+ months later…

One of them, had the score canceled, at which point they hired an attorney, after which their score was reinstated 😂 I am not sure how accurate that story was but that was feedback from one user on GMAT Club. 👍

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Dear @bb/experts,
I scored a 730 (Q49 V40) in September 2021 online GMAT attempt and scored a mere 650 (Q50 V27 AWA 6) in March 2022 online GMAT attempt. Although, I received the official score within a few days of the exam attempt, I can't figure out the reason for the very low verbal score, as I have never scored below V33, even in the first official mock that I took prior to beginning my GMAT preparation. Furthermore, I was scoring V45 in MGMAT mocks a few days prior to the exam. After hearing of such incidents, I am starting to suspect that something fishy happened to my exam. Is it possible for me to do anything about it?

Thanks and warm regards
Naresh

What are you suspecting? What can be happening to your exam? And how is this related to the topic being discussed? 🤷‍♂️

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I am suspecting that my exam was somehow manipulated by some hacker. I just wanted to get some more information on this subject. I apologize if I have said something wrong.

Thanks.

Hi NareshGargMBA,

There's no real motive for anyone to mess with your score as part of an individual attack (and why would they increase your quant score to 50?), so it's unlikely that you've been maliciously targeted here. Also, the hackers involved in this operation are probably not the kind we read about in the news, the kind who can get into our phones at will. To do what you suspect, they'd have to compromise your/GMAC's/Examity's systems first, which is significantly more difficult than uploading remote access software with the help of system owners.

Here's another article from BusinessBecause — a PR arm of GMAC — that addresses the situation:

https://www.businessbecause.com/news/gm ... an-hackers

This recent wave of GMAT online cheating scandals helps explain why GMAC and Examity have begun implementing an automatic score review process for anyone who scores 700+ on the online exam — a process that can add weeks to the release of your official score.

Yes, it must be nice to just sit back and let two professional GMAT tutors in another part of the world take the GMAT remotely for you, while you just sit there on camera and pretend to be working hard, when in fact the (mostly) correct answers are being chosen for you by experts.

Shortcuts come with consequences, however — both legal and academic consequences. Many offers of MBA admission have now been rescinded because of cancelled GMAT online scores.