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| All
scores from past 5 years will
be reported |
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| Currently,
if an examinee has taken the GMAT
several times, GMAC reports scores
from the three most recent exams.
Starting in 2006, GMAC will report
all scores from the past five
years, including cancellations |
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| Online
access & send score reports
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| Test
takers will no longer have to
wait two to three weeks to get
their official score reports by
mail. They’ll be able to
access score reports and send
reports to schools through a secure
online system. |
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| Offical
score reports |
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| Official
score reports will be available
online to test-takers and the
schools they've selected approximately
20 days after the test. Official
score reports are now mailed to
the student by request only. |
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| Goodbye
scratch paper and pencils: welcome
the erasable noteboard |
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Test-takers
will no longer be given scratch
paper and pencils to work out
problems.
Instead, they will be given a
noteboard with 5 yellow sheets
with tiny check marks and a medium-tipped
black marker. The writing on the
noteboard cannot be erased by
the test-taker (but can be erased
by the administrator – hence
the adjective ‘erasable’).
If a test-taker needs replacement
marker(s) or fresh noteboards,
she has to raise her hand to get
the attention of an ever-vigilant
test administrator.. |
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| Content
and scoring |
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| The
content of the test and the scoring
methodology remains substantially
the same. All changes are limited
to the administration and reporting
of the test scores. |
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| Minimum
wait of 31 days before retaking
the test |
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| Unlike
the previous regime, where one
could take the test once every
calendar month (technically one
could take a test on two consecutive
days, the last day of a month,
and the first day of the following
month), now a test-taker can only
take the exam once in any 31-day
period |
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| What
if I score an 800? |
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| Good
for you; you cannot retake the
test for 5 years. |
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| Proctor
perched in booth at center of
testing room |
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| At
Thomson Prometric centers, proctors
sit outside the testing room and
observe examinees via video camera.
They occasionally patrol the testing
room, a practice many examinees
find disconcerting. At Pearson
VUE centers, the proctor will
sit in a booth at the center of
the testing room. |
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| No
testing
on weekends |
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| GMAT
will no longer be offered on Saturdays
in the U.S. |
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| New
security
measures |
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| Pearson
VUE will implement new security
measures, such as the use of digital
fingerprinting. |
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| No
walk-in
registrations |
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| As
of January 1, 2006, walk-in registration
at test centers will no longer
be accepted. (Right now, those
who wait are sometimes able to
get appointments by calling or
stopping by individual test centers.) |
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| No
paper tests
(anywhere!) |
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| Currently,
some overseas test centers deliver
paper exams, and starting in 2006,
all centers will deliver exams
on computer. |
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| Only
five attempts
within a 12-month period |
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| As
before, test-takers can still
take the exam only 5 times within
any 12-month period. |
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| Reselect
schools to receive new scores
upon retest |
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| If
a test-taker retakes the exam
and wants to resend her scores
to programs that previously received
the score, she must reselect those
schools at the time of the retest. |
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| Duration
of breaks is now 10 minutes |
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| The
break between the AWA portion
and Section 3, as well as the
break between Sections 3 and 4,
are each 10 minutes long. |
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