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19 Aug 2020, 06:57
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Hello everyone, I want to share my experience during the Onling GMAT - I took the exam 2 days ago and I am currently waiting for the score.
I took the optional break after the Verbal section, asked the proctor the permission to leave the room and came back in 2-3 minutes, everything was fine.
Since I still had 1 minute available, I decided to wait and rest my mind as long as possible. When the countdown got to zero, I clicked on "End break" and was immediately prompted to the IR section. Actually I was 2 seconds overdue, but everything looked ok.
At some point, while I was at IR question 6, I was contacted by the proctor via chat. She asked me whether I was still on break. "No - I answered - I am doing IR". She replied that as far as she could see I appeared still on break. I reiterated I was doing IR, specifying I was on question 6. At some point she asked me what IR meant (!) and I literally replied "Intergrated Reasoning - Please let me work now" as I found quite irritating having to reply such a silly question on the chat while the time kept going on.
I totally lost my concentration at least 2-3 times on question 6, every time having to restart reasoning from scratch but with 30 seconds lost and under an increasing pression.
As a general rule, it would probably be fairer if the time stopped when the chat is open, or at least when the chat is commenced by the proctor.
I took the optional break after the Verbal section, asked the proctor the permission to leave the room and came back in 2-3 minutes, everything was fine.
Since I still had 1 minute available, I decided to wait and rest my mind as long as possible. When the countdown got to zero, I clicked on "End break" and was immediately prompted to the IR section. Actually I was 2 seconds overdue, but everything looked ok.
At some point, while I was at IR question 6, I was contacted by the proctor via chat. She asked me whether I was still on break. "No - I answered - I am doing IR". She replied that as far as she could see I appeared still on break. I reiterated I was doing IR, specifying I was on question 6. At some point she asked me what IR meant (!) and I literally replied "Intergrated Reasoning - Please let me work now" as I found quite irritating having to reply such a silly question on the chat while the time kept going on.
I totally lost my concentration at least 2-3 times on question 6, every time having to restart reasoning from scratch but with 30 seconds lost and under an increasing pression.
As a general rule, it would probably be fairer if the time stopped when the chat is open, or at least when the chat is commenced by the proctor.
19 Aug 2020, 08:39
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Hi
Did you try raising a grievance in website with the same issue? If not please do the same they will have all the necessary details if not try to tell them properly all the events that had happened.
Did you try raising a grievance in website with the same issue? If not please do the same they will have all the necessary details if not try to tell them properly all the events that had happened.
19 Aug 2020, 09:19
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You can attempt to raise the issue officially with full details provided like you did here. Many others have had proctor interruptions however, so your experience is not unique and may not make any difference officially.
Note that the proctors do not have to be conversant with "IR" and other particular question types. Their primary duty is to monitor the person.
Note that the proctors do not have to be conversant with "IR" and other particular question types. Their primary duty is to monitor the person.
