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Changes Coming to GMAT Online on Oct 20, 2021

Just announced by GMAC:

  • You can take GMAT Online up to 8 times (all attempts can be online)
  • Up to 5 attempts in a 12-month period
  • GMAT Fees going up in some markets
  • Online Test will be limited to 5 free score reports, additional will cost $35, just like the traditional GMAT


We continue to focus on enhancing the exam experience and supporting your application goals.


Beginning October 20, 2021, the number of times you can take the GMAT™ exam delivered online will increase. Online exam attempts will continue to count toward your overall GMAT™ exam attempt limits – 5 in a rolling 12-month period and 8 in a lifetime. You can take all of your exam attempts at a test center or online, or a combination of both – the choice is yours!

Effective October 20, 2021, the price of new, online appointments for the GMAT™ exam will be updated to align with test center appointment pricing. See the GMAT™ Location-Specific Pricing page for pricing in your location.


Starting October 20, 2021, the GMAT™ exam delivered online will include 5 free score reports. Once your official GMAT™ online score is made available via mba.com, your 5 free score reports must be used within 48 hours. Additional score reports can be purchased for US$35 each. For any exam taken on or after October 20, 2021, this new score sending policy will apply.


Takeaway: if you are ready, take the test before the 20th. This will provide you with unlimited GMAT score reports which will save money if you apply to more than 5 schools. However, don't just rush to take it.


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The email I saw seemed to suggest that as of October 20th the number of possible online attempts was increasing. The wording was ambiguous and I don't see the info on mba.com, but it implied that all 5 attempts could be taken online as of Oct 20th. Does anyone know if that is correct? And does anyone know what that would mean for retakes? I am assuming the ability to take the online test and in-person test less than 16 days apart is going to be eliminated, but maybe not if the online test is still going to be treated as a separate exam with a separate question pool?
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The email I saw seemed to suggest that as of October 20th the number of possible online attempts was increasing. The wording was ambiguous and I don't see the info on mba.com, but it implied that all 5 attempts could be taken online as of Oct 20th. Does anyone know if that is correct? And does anyone know what that would mean for retakes? I am assuming the ability to take the online test and in-person test less than 16 days apart is going to be eliminated, but maybe not if the online test is still going to be treated as a separate exam with a separate question pool?

Yes! I took it to read as something completely different (does not matter what I thought) But re-reading it now, yes, I think that’s what it Means! But why would they not say how many times you could take it? Does it mean you can take it up to 8 times?

Beginning October 20, 2021, the number of times you can take the GMAT™ exam delivered online will increase. Online exam attempts will continue to count toward your overall GMAT™ exam attempt limits – 5 in a rolling 12-month period and 8 in a lifetime. You can take all of your exam attempts at a test center or online, or a combination of both – the choice is yours!

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Update: looks like they sent out another (better email) to the Asian test-takers that actually is more clear than what I have received in the US (thank goodness for that comms team).

It looks like the strange limitation that capped maximume gmat online attempts at just 2, and existed for over 1.5 years has been removed.

P.S. The date is October 20th. What's up with the 20th? May 20th is when GMAT Online Enhanced went live. September 20th, 2020 is when the second attempt was introduced, and April 20th was when the original GMAT Online started. Is that the only day in the month GMAC is able to do things? Do they work just 1 day a month? That could explain a few things I guess such as why it took 1 year to provide ability to take GMAT more than twice online....
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bb Thanks for bringing us the latest plate of bad (and some good) news from GMAC. As expected, GMAC gives two brutal slaps and in compensation gives a small pat on the back.

Increasing the fees and removing the free score report options are extremely bad. This will hurt applicants who are already poor and live in poor regions. The justification that GMAC are "aligning" things is whitewash corporate speak.

Increasing the number of online attempts with the increased revenues that will flow in will only benefit GMAC. Unfortunately, the current management team appears to be more interested in maximizing revenues for itself. Who cares if applicants suffer?
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Takeaway: if you are ready, take the test before the 20th. This will provide you with unlimited GMAT score reports which will save money if you apply to more than 5 schools. However, don't just rush to take it since you only have 2 attempts.

Hi bb

For the aspirants who appear for GMAT Online before 20th Oct '21, do they get only 2 online attempts in total or they have 6 more such attempts even though they have appeared for 2 Online GMAT's before 20th Oct '21?
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Hey bb !

Thanks for sharing the latest update!
Could you clear this out for me, please?
Is the change from unlimited to 5 free score cards reflected for everyone who takes the exam from 20 October or those who start booking their slots from 20 October?
Ex:
(1) A person has booked their exam in September to be taken on 28th October.
(2) A person has booked a slot on 20th October to take the exam on 28th October.

Will the number of free score cards be the same or different for the above 2 cases?

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Sorry, that was a typo. You can take more tests after the 20th.


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Takeaway: if you are ready, take the test before the 20th. This will provide you with unlimited GMAT score reports which will save money if you apply to more than 5 schools. However, don't just rush to take it since you only have 2 attempts.

Hi bb

For the aspirants who appear for GMAT Online before 20th Oct '21, do they get only 2 online attempts in total or they have 6 more such attempts even though they have appeared for 2 Online GMAT's before 20th Oct '21?

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If you take an online test after October 20, you will only have five free score reports for that test.

If you have taken a test prior to October 20 and it was online, you can send unlimited score reports until January 2022.

PS. It doesn’t seem the timing of booking matters. It only seems that the timing of taking the test is what’s considered

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Hey bb !

Thanks for sharing the latest update!
Could you clear this out for me, please?
Is the change from unlimited to 5 free score cards reflected for everyone who takes the exam from 20 October or those who start booking their slots from 20 October?
Ex:
(1) A person has booked their exam in September to be taken on 28th October.
(2) A person has booked a slot on 20th October to take the exam on 28th October.

Will the number of free score cards be the same or different for the above 2 cases?

TIA!

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The one major highlight of all this news is that the GMAT online's lifetime limit of 2 exams is finally being dropped as of 10/20!


Sources: https://www.mba.com/frequently-asked-qu ... #question2
https://www.gmac.com/gmat-other-assessm ... e-exam-faq


Too bad about the changes to ordering score reports, but no one in the industry expected GMAC to keep those free and unlimited forever.

Thanks for sharing.
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How do we know if the schools have received our GMAT Online scores? I checked MBA.com. I had sent scores couple of days back. But the schools that I had selected is not reflecting in my account.

Plus one of the school is asking to upload the score report. I didn't get any score report for GMAT Online. What should I upload here? Would a screenshot work of the score reflecting in my MBA.com account work?
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Thanks bb
You are more supportive than the rest of GMAC Customer service team who have been passing my calls to several teams without clarification.

Right now I cancelled my upcoming at center exam but system still says I will only be able to register fortest center one ( as I ran out of 2x online chances)

So my assumption is we can only wait to see if system opens for online test registration from Oct 20.
I'll keep you guys posted
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Today I heard on Reddit that GMAT online scores have been delayed ("We are currently experiencing delays in processing GMAT Online Exam score results. Please check back in 10 business days"):



I wonder whether this delay has anything to do with the GMAT online rule changes effective 10/20: no more 2-exam lifetime limit, no more unlimited and free score sends, et cetera.

Maybe...just maybe...a new GMAT score portal is finally in the works, one that contains both your test-center GMAT scores and your GMAT online scores, instead of the current practice of keeping them in entirely different locations. The rules for sending scores from both versions of the GMAT could also be aligned at last.

For example, under GMAC's current score-sending system, if you choose to send any test-center GMAT score, then the recipient b-schools will see all your test-center scores from the last 5 years, except in the case of score cancellations. If you choose to send GMAT online scores, however, then adcoms will only see the specific GMAT score(s) you select.

To state the obvious: for the sake of fairness, and as an extension of GMAC's continued efforts to make the 2 test versions truly "equivalent," the GMAT online's current, slightly more liberal score-sending rules should apply to test-center scores as well. In addition, both GMAT online scores and test-center GMAT scores should be accessible in one centralized location on the student's MBA.com profile page.

This isn't too much to ask, right GMAC?
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Apologies in advance if this was mentioned and I already missed it, but do we know how this changes the interval between GMAT tries. Up until now you could take the in person and online without having to wait the 16 days. Obviously online attempts will be 16 day apart, but do we know whether one can take an in person and online in quick succession? For people gunning for R2 and needing to take 3 or 4 tests all in December (because they won't be ready to take their first one until then), the ability to stack the in person and online tries close together was a nice option.
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Apologies in advance if this was mentioned and I already missed it, but do we know how this changes the interval between GMAT tries. Up until now you could take the in person and online without having to wait the 16 days. Obviously online attempts will be 16 day apart, but do we know whether one can take an in person and online in quick succession? For people gunning for R2 and needing to take 3 or 4 tests all in December (because they won't be ready to take their first one until then), the ability to stack the in person and online tries close together was a nice option.
Good question, ReasonGMAT. Has GMAC ever officially acknowledged this loophole? If taking the 2 versions (online and in-person) of the GMAT less than 16 days apart no longer becomes possible, then this suggests that their respective question pools must have been merged—another way to make the 2 versions of the exam more equitable, and good news overall for those who have complained about the GMAT online Quant section in particular.

There's still no ESR option for the GMAT online, though... :|

For now, I would safely assume that the loophole is still in place, though this may indeed change after 10/20/21.
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When you say this. Do you mean the expansion of the number of online attempts?

There hasn’t been any indications that the policy of test attempts will change related to online and in person tests. At the same time that is not a guarantee that it will remain so but so far you have been able to take it in quick succession. My guess is until the systems are merged it’ll remain to be so.

There also has not been any indication about changes to cancellation and reporting of the online scores. You didn’t have to cancel them in the past and it seems the policy will remain in effect after the October 20.



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Apologies in advance if this was mentioned and I already missed it, but do we know how this changes the interval between GMAT tries. Up until now you could take the in person and online without having to wait the 16 days. Obviously online attempts will be 16 day apart, but do we know whether one can take an in person and online in quick succession? For people gunning for R2 and needing to take 3 or 4 tests all in December (because they won't be ready to take their first one until then), the ability to stack the in person and online tries close together was a nice option.

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mcelroytutoring, it does say on the website that you can take online attempts within 16 days of in person attempts (I knew I had seen it before, but I actually just checked and after some searching I found it still there on one of the FAQ pages). I'll post the exact wording below.

But as you indicated, if the reason we are jumping from 2 online attempts to 5 online attempts is that the question pools are merging and that the online GMAT is now going to be just an at-home delivery of the same test you take at a test center, that will mean the end of this loophole. For now the wording below is the wording on the site, but I gotta believe that the online GMAT is no longer going to have a separate question pool and that this loophole is going to go bye bye.

It's not the most consequential thing in the world, but I have a couple of students who are gunning for R2 but who won't be ready to take their first try until early December. So without the loophole they may end up having the space to take the test only twice, but with the loophole they might be able to take it 4 times (2 in person and 2 online). Since I already mentioned to them that this might be possible, they are going to be disappointed if it turns out not to be so!!!

Here's the wording from mba.com:

Can I take the GMAT™ Online exam more than once?

All candidates will be allowed two (2) GMAT™ online exam attempts.*

Note: The GMAT™ online exam can be taken once every 16 calendar days. However, you may have a GMAT test center appointment within 16 calendar days of a GMAT™ online exam appointment.

*Beginning October 20, 2021, the number of times you can take the GMAT™ exam delivered online will increase. Online exam attempts will continue to count toward your overall GMAT™ exam attempt limits – 5 in a rolling 12-month period and 8 in a lifetime. You can take all of your exam attempts at a test center or online, or a combination of both – the choice is yours!
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