Thanks so much for sharing!!! I have updated you as the owner of the first post as Mykrasovsky moved on Tuck and busy MBA life.
Hope you take good care of the first post and the "WIKI" element of this almost 3,000 post topic!
Update on GMAT ONLINE exam disconnection issues.
As I thought this exam could not be any weirder for me, I keep being surprised with a whole new level of weirdness!
THIS IS MY EXPERIENCE AND WHAT I DID GIVEN THE CIRCUMSTANCES, AND OBVIOUSLY NOT EXTENDABLE TO OR ADVISABLE TO PERFORM ON OTHER CASESMy timeline today:
- I started my GMAT Online by launching OnVue, I followed on-screen instructions and everything went forward smoothly. did the quant and verbal.
- I didn't risk leaving the desk during the 5min IR break,
THERE ARE TWO BUTTONS ON THE SCREEN "SKIP BREAK" AND "TAKE BREAK" do not forget to
press the "TAKE BREAK" button if you want to take it! still, apparently, it does not guarantee that GMAC wont terminate the exam session if you leave the webcam, according to some test takers.
- at this point if the weather is cold and you do have the exam stress like me, during this break you most probably realize there is a
serious urge to go to the bathroom, but nevertheless, I didn't risk leaving the desk, thinking that IR is not that much of a deciding factor for the schools (I might be wrong tho)
- to prevent future trouble
do not forget to show your physical board's both sides before the IR. there is no strict warning telling you to do so at that stage, but not showing the board might put you in trouble later. so I showed the board and continued.
- 10 mins before the end, the surprise crawled in, and
I got disconnected from the internet -OnVue browser showed
"This site cannot be reached" message and a
reload button.
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Only after a few attempts to reload did I realize that I am disconnected, the reload button doesn't work, I am on wifi and I didn't tick the "automatic reconnect" to my network SO DEFINITELY TICK YOUR AUTOMATIC RECONNECT TO WIFI!! 
-remember that you do not see your start menu to notice you are connected or not, and you do not have any access to your desktop because of a BrowserLock.exe process which runs simultaneously with OnVue app, to prevent you from accessing anything other than OnVue.
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Since I had no other choice, and the keyboard was not doing anything, I pressed
ctrl+alt+del and
a message popped: "ctrl+alt+del detected. the browser will now terminate" I remember trying this before, during the "System test" a few days ago. (hope GMAC does not read this thread ever! might affect my scores)
- I thought "OH GOD! once again you need to build a case and follow up and all that trouble...".
-Out of curiosity when I connected again, first
I terminated the OnVUE and BROWSERLOCK.exe using the Task manager, then
I ran the OnVue app once again, miserably accepting my fate and waiting to be refused access to the exam!
- it asked for my 9 digit access code, and when I put it in,
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VOILA! the webcam/mic/net speed test page appeared (this wont appear if you are refused access, because I tried this with my previous failed attempt).
- so
at the beginning of the exam don't forget to write your access code somewhere. I had taken a screenshot with WINDOWS+PRNT SCRN buttons (automatically saves the screenshot in your "Pictures" folder) at the beginning of the exam.
- you can also write it in your phone. and dont worry about the webcam recording it, because the webcam has not started recording yet when you are offered a 9 digit code at the beginning, or when you have restarted OnVue.
-Back to the timeline: So at this point I was connected again.
- after that, the chat box appeared with proctor messages saying he had lost my video, and paused the exam! (I was lucky he didn't terminate it this time) , so I wrote to him that I am reconnected.
- he still didn't have the webcam feed, so I closed and opened the OnVue once more (this time more confidently) and I got back on track, with tons of distraction for the remaining questions.
This plot twist took me an extra 45 mins, and you do remember the bathroom urge! Im telling you The GMAT online also tests your urinary bladder capacity. Im sure I would get a perfect 800 in that test.
Cheers. hope none of this happens even to your most hated ones
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