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03 Apr 2025, 09:36
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Hello,
I am just writing to share my worst experience ever. I got a 665 on GMAT focus (Quant 90 and the other two have percentile around 70-80), but my score is cancelled, which will definitely bring me the troublesome during my application for business school this year.
I waited for around 1hour and a half for the proctor to show up on March 28th (My exam is scheduled at 9pm, but she did not show up until 10:30pm, before that I sent tons of emails and tried to contact the people). I worked hard and paid a lot of attention for this online exam, but they cancelled my score, which made my plan into a mess. And this is absolutely nonsense, since I followed the rules of the exam and kept the honesty all the time, this is not only an insulation to my efforts and personality, but also a great trouble-maker.
I urgently rescheduled an exam in Wuhan at April 15th, since before I was in France and after the exam I began my coming-back-home trip in China. I thought that it was the last work-related thing to do when I was in France and I could enjoy my journey without any concern. And the only business school I applied this year (HEC Paris), will end their round 4 on April 15th. I contacted the school about my situation, in order to reduce the loss to the least. This is part of my plan of transferring my career routine (I was a high-level maths researcher before), but unexpectedly, I am meeting such **** trouble.
I am just writing to share my worst experience ever. I got a 665 on GMAT focus (Quant 90 and the other two have percentile around 70-80), but my score is cancelled, which will definitely bring me the troublesome during my application for business school this year.
I waited for around 1hour and a half for the proctor to show up on March 28th (My exam is scheduled at 9pm, but she did not show up until 10:30pm, before that I sent tons of emails and tried to contact the people). I worked hard and paid a lot of attention for this online exam, but they cancelled my score, which made my plan into a mess. And this is absolutely nonsense, since I followed the rules of the exam and kept the honesty all the time, this is not only an insulation to my efforts and personality, but also a great trouble-maker.
I urgently rescheduled an exam in Wuhan at April 15th, since before I was in France and after the exam I began my coming-back-home trip in China. I thought that it was the last work-related thing to do when I was in France and I could enjoy my journey without any concern. And the only business school I applied this year (HEC Paris), will end their round 4 on April 15th. I contacted the school about my situation, in order to reduce the loss to the least. This is part of my plan of transferring my career routine (I was a high-level maths researcher before), but unexpectedly, I am meeting such **** trouble.
03 Apr 2025, 10:18
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Sorry to hear that you had such a bad experience, try connecting with GMAT support team
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03 Apr 2025, 10:21
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Sorry to hear that, Shane4038. If possible, always take the test-center exam.
As you have learned the hard way, the GMAT online is too risky, and has too many variables that are out of your control: for example, whether the proctor shows up late, or whether test security finds some arbitrary reason to cancel your score. This was true 5 years ago, and it continues to be true in the GMAT Focus era.
For me, it was that I had "looked to the side" during the one hour I was sitting there on camera, awaiting the arrival of my proctor. I'm sure that I did look to the side at some point during those 60 minutes—but that's a dumb reason to cancel a score, especially when the test has not even begun.
Did test security specify a reason why your GMAT online score was cancelled?
As you have learned the hard way, the GMAT online is too risky, and has too many variables that are out of your control: for example, whether the proctor shows up late, or whether test security finds some arbitrary reason to cancel your score. This was true 5 years ago, and it continues to be true in the GMAT Focus era.
For me, it was that I had "looked to the side" during the one hour I was sitting there on camera, awaiting the arrival of my proctor. I'm sure that I did look to the side at some point during those 60 minutes—but that's a dumb reason to cancel a score, especially when the test has not even begun.
Did test security specify a reason why your GMAT online score was cancelled?
