Cheaters Never Prosper - GMAT Style
Well, that point is arguable, but in this instance, cheaters didn’t prosper. In fact, they were banned from taking the GMAT ever again. Which means they’re banned from B school.
“More than 1,000 prospective MBA students who paid $30 to use a now-defunct Web site to get a sneak peak at live questions from the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) before taking the exam may have their scores canceled in coming weeks.”
I am not sure what good seeing GMAT problems would be because everyone gets different GMAT problems depending on how well they are doing on the test. It’s computer adaptive so each question that the test taker gets depends on how he/she scored on previous questions. As far as seeing real GMAT problems, anyone can buy sample/retired GMAT problems that have appeared on previous tests from GMAC. Manhattan GMAT, Veritas GMAT and other GMAT prep courses all use material from GMAC. So, the sad part is that the people who paid for this “unfair” advantage and had their MBA dreams shattered probably didn’t even have an “unfair” advantage. Read more here.
Well, at least that means the applicant pool will be 1,000 6,000 candidates lighter in the next few years. =D