ScoreTop.com cheating scandal affects GMAT exam scores and MBA students

by billso on Wednesday, 2 July 2008

The Grad­u­ate Man­age­ment Admis­sion Coun­cil (GMAC), which devel­ops and admin­is­ters the Grad­u­ate Man­age­ment Admis­sion Test (GMAT) that is used in the MBA admis­sions process, has taken over the domain name Scoretop.com as of 20 June 2008, shut down the web site, and obtained a hard drive from the ISP provider con­tain­ing Score­top sub­scriber information.

GMAC alleges that Lei Shi and other par­tic­i­pants in Score­top pro­vided 6000 paid sub­scribers with access to authen­tic, live GMAT exam ques­tions. GMAC has can­celed one person’s GMAT score in late 2007, and may can­cel other scores if a foren­sic exam­i­na­tion of the drive and server logs yields a list of GMAT exam takers.

David Wil­son, pres­i­dent and CEO of GMAC, claims the orga­ni­za­tion will not “can­cel a score where we think there’s a shadow of a doubt.” But GMAC’s inves­ti­ga­tion has left some poten­tial and cur­rent MBA stu­dents won­der­ing if or when they will be questioned.

See these Busi­ness Week arti­cles by Louis Lavelle called GMAT Scan­dal Claims First Casu­alty and GMAT Cheat­ing Scan­dal: Answers From GMAC for more details.

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