GMAT Online - What We Know [Master Topic]

They did have a link: https://home.pearsonvue.com/Documents/T ... rview.aspx
but it leads to a 404 error - page not found

I just tried a whiteboard online and trust me it took me close to 2 mins for a simple sub-600 quant question. I wonder what will it take to solve a 700 level question.

Q1: What if internet is going to be disconnected for 1 hour due to electricity?
Q2: What if people's passport is already in expired mode?
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The scratchpad will work in off-line mode, so you can draw stick figures and doodle around - be prepared to explain your drawings when internet connection resumes

I think, it is the burning question for so many peoples. There are so many places where electricity is disconnected (internet is also going to be disconnected due to electricity problem) for long time. If GMAC does not confirm it, people may not be motivated to take GMAT in home!

Also, passport issue is another important issue for the pandemic-most of the passport office are closed. People are totally unable to renew their passport.

No access to a scratchpad is a major handicap in the online exam and also 2 hrs without a break and access to drinking water is inhuman.

I think you're allowed to have a glass with clear fluid (vodka?) at your table, but thats it.

The link is here if someone wants to check it out.

https://home.pearsonvue.com/op/online-p ... d-overview

We gotta click on an icon to open the whiteboard page, which means when we open the whiteboard we no longer can see the question? A total joke if that is the case.

This is being handled so poorly by GMAC. They didn't even take the time to consider candidates with extra time accommodations. SMH. Given all of the constraints and nuances associated with taking this from home, I'm 100% skipping out on this "opportunity" if you even want to call it that, and waiting until the testing centers open back up. They had me at no writing. This is a joke of an exam.

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I think that all the whiteboard thing is unacceptable.

Come on, how do they expect you to do equations, simplifications, divisions, multiplications, etc. For example, imagine how much time and visual consuming would be to write the square root symbol (SQRT each time?). Unbelievable.

At the very least they should give you access to a "practice" whiteboard so you get used to it.

Very unhappy with the GMAC.

Only you are able to think that side in this cathartic moment

If you decide not to send the scores to any schools, will they still see the online GMAT if we decide to take the in person GMAT when the center opens again? I have a few official scores so I was wondering if this score would make it on the score report.

I find it very unfair that we will be forced to use an online whiteboard instead of an actual whiteboard or erasable pad. The GRE is allowing whiteboards online - why should we be forced to figure out a new system? This puts online test takers at a severe disadvantage. This is a time constrained test, and many test takers already struggle with time. Now I have to use a trackpad or mouse to draw, which will inevitable take longer than writing by hand, something that all other GMAT testers before us were allowed to do? What is the use in this? It doesn't make sense and it is NOT fair.

I hope that others studying for the GMAT are outraged about this and that they petition GMAC for the use of actual white boards.

Not to mention they don't tell us our scores immediately and let us cancel...

How is this equitable?!

This online whiteboard thing is ridiculous for quant. Why can't we:
a) have erasable board
b) have regular pen and paper and send them a snapshots of what we wrote at the end of the quant section.

I think the online whiteboard might work for verbal, but for quant?!

Can’t use iPad per the tech requirements.
Not unless you can Run windows or MacOS on them

This link is supposed to allow you to run a System Test but it is not working right now
https://service.proctorcam.com/system_t ... ystem_test

Question: Was anyone able to successfully register and schedule their Online GMAT?

I wholeheartedly agree with you. It seems AWA would be a perfect take-home assignment.

But it also looks like they will be using a different set of questions for this test (since it does not count towards the annual or lifetime limit and cannot be retaken) so they may optimize questions that don’t require as much scratch paper work... though still, I found it very helpful for Berbal to have ABCDE on it....