Man! this is crazy
Thanks guys for all these useful info.
I'm already almost certain that there will be a large number of questions leaked out very soon after GMAT starts this!
It's probably true that a real MBA applicant will not dare to take ANY risk to cheat, but what if someone asks a friend, brother, roommate, classmate (or someone who will never ever want to actually take gmat and apply for B-schools) to sign up on GMAC and register for a test, and then try different method of cheating? Like if one of them is caught by GMAC, no big deal, who cares lol? they will find another friend to try the second technique, and so on an so forth.
So what are the techniques to steal the questions?
I know GRE has mentioned that the applicant must use an erasable sheet and the sheet must be erased after the exam in front of camera, and that the camera must show the tabletop before the exam. But what if my imaginary friend (or roommate, etc) has two erasable sheet, one of them already filled with lots of dummy notes and stick it under his desk in front of him, and the other one he uses during the test and fill it out with a bunch of notes (especially quant notes since the questions can be easily and entirely recovered later). As soon as the test is done, he stick this sheet under the desk (obviously camera cannot see down there) and take the other dummy sheet and clean it in front of camera.
EVEN if proctor finds out at the end that he has cheated, again, who cares? He is just a random guy who doesn't care if GMAC black lists him forever haha
This is just one theory (of course hiding a high resolution high magnification camera somewhere in the back is also something that sometimes can be really hard even for AI to find), and there might come lots of others as this mechanism goes on.
Also, what about all those paranoid palm checking each time before and after going into the room, while the guy actually saw me seconds ago and has that much brain power to confirm I've been the same person all the time. I think GMAC is just justifying that all those stuff were BS lol?
Also a question from
ari.banerjee, did the GRE guys mentioned if people can use ear plugs? There are lots of noise in my apartment if I ever wanna take this exam at home.
Goddammit, I'm seeing that day that HBS is switching the case method and next year's MBA classes to online classes if there is no vaccine/drug by September haha what a mess would that be
Also another cheating technique that just came into my mind, what if that random friend that mentioned is gonna put a very well positioned camera with a tiny lens into his shirt, where the shirt has lots of crazy patterns and colors that make it super super hard for proctor to see it. Then he can record everything from a close distance very well. Again even if they find out, random joe doesn't care.
I will update you with more cheating techniques as they come into my mind.
I personally hope this virus is wiped out soon and it goes back to normal. There might be many many scenarios that can lead to unfair situations.
Sorry if there is lots of typos, wrote this quickly as I was shocked that this home exam thing is happening.
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What if during the test the internet get disconnected? Will they consider it as a cheating action? Will they allow the person to resume the test? what will happen to that test if internet is down for 5 minutes? will they assume the guy is doing this to buy some time to reset his brain and cancel the test? These aren't just imaginary scenarios coming to my mind. These things happen honestly. I have a $95 COMCAST internet plan and it still sometimes goes crazy.
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