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24 Aug 2025, 17:44
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Hey everyone,
I just took the GMAT FE online today and now almost 10 hours later I received an email from GMAC security.
“We are writing to inform you that your GMAT Focus Edition exam delivered online xxxxxx on August 24, 2025 is undergoing a routine security review that may take up to 20 business days. Once this review has been completed, you will be contacted only if we have any questions concerning your scores. Otherwise, you will receive an email that your results are available and can select schools / programs to send your scores.
Please note that this is part of normal business and assessment operations at the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) and helps to ensure the quality and the validity of our exams. In order for us to complete exam reviews in a timely manner, we ask that you wait 20 business days from your exam date before requesting an update.
If more than 20 business days has passed, and you have not heard from us or received your results...”
I scored a 735 unofficially on this exam and I had a previous attempt back in May where I got a 675, but that exam never was sent to a security review and I took it online also. I’m a bit worried now cause I’ve read previous experiences on here where people with high scores were flagged and had their scores cancelled.
The exam today went smoothly for the most part as well. The proctor did do a thorough room review which took 30 mins. And during the exam she only interrupted twice just to remind to keep my face visible in the camera when I use the whiteboard but that’s it.
Any help or guidance anyone here can provide?
I just took the GMAT FE online today and now almost 10 hours later I received an email from GMAC security.
“We are writing to inform you that your GMAT Focus Edition exam delivered online xxxxxx on August 24, 2025 is undergoing a routine security review that may take up to 20 business days. Once this review has been completed, you will be contacted only if we have any questions concerning your scores. Otherwise, you will receive an email that your results are available and can select schools / programs to send your scores.
Please note that this is part of normal business and assessment operations at the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) and helps to ensure the quality and the validity of our exams. In order for us to complete exam reviews in a timely manner, we ask that you wait 20 business days from your exam date before requesting an update.
If more than 20 business days has passed, and you have not heard from us or received your results...”
I scored a 735 unofficially on this exam and I had a previous attempt back in May where I got a 675, but that exam never was sent to a security review and I took it online also. I’m a bit worried now cause I’ve read previous experiences on here where people with high scores were flagged and had their scores cancelled.
The exam today went smoothly for the most part as well. The proctor did do a thorough room review which took 30 mins. And during the exam she only interrupted twice just to remind to keep my face visible in the camera when I use the whiteboard but that’s it.
Any help or guidance anyone here can provide?
24 Aug 2025, 17:50
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Hi. I have seen very few people have the scores canceled. I can probably remember two or maximum three. Can you find hundreds?
The review is triggered by AI that tracks your exam experience. This may be related to moving your mouth or looking off screen which is not a reason to cancel your score, it’s just a reason to flag your exam for a human review.
This is because the proctor who’s administering your test isn’t really doing a whole lot during your test. Yes they may be annoying and interfering but they’re not the rules enforcer.
So every exam gets recorded and then that video is run through an AI algorithm that determines whether a human needs to look at it. Yours was determined that a human is still look at it and most of these, likely 99% of them, are dismissed as normal.
There indeed have been some individuals whose scores were canceled and that is painful because the appeal process is not clear and the criteria based on which they judge this are secretive for security reason and that may feel very unfair. But at this point, there’s nothing to do 😬
The review is triggered by AI that tracks your exam experience. This may be related to moving your mouth or looking off screen which is not a reason to cancel your score, it’s just a reason to flag your exam for a human review.
This is because the proctor who’s administering your test isn’t really doing a whole lot during your test. Yes they may be annoying and interfering but they’re not the rules enforcer.
So every exam gets recorded and then that video is run through an AI algorithm that determines whether a human needs to look at it. Yours was determined that a human is still look at it and most of these, likely 99% of them, are dismissed as normal.
There indeed have been some individuals whose scores were canceled and that is painful because the appeal process is not clear and the criteria based on which they judge this are secretive for security reason and that may feel very unfair. But at this point, there’s nothing to do 😬
24 Aug 2025, 18:08
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Ah I see. Thanks for the insight! Like I mentioned, the only things I can think of that could trigger this is that the proctor just asked to make sure my face was visible in the camera when working on the whiteboard, or maybe that my score is high.
