Scoretop.com: A cheating site for GMAT
2008-07-03 16:55:07 (GMT) (Caymanmama.com - Education News News)Richmond, Virginia (CaymanMama.com) — Past and present business graduates who have used a website to cheat on the entrance exams over the last 5 years now face having their scores rejected and thrown out. After a winning, the publisher of the exam, GMAT, has begun tracking down the users who cheated from Scoretop.com by shutting down the website and seizing a hard drive which contains user identifications and payment information.
Scoretop.com gave the users a preview of current questions in the latest GMAT for $30 per month. Some of them were posted by the users who had already taken the exam. The District Judge of US, Leonie Brinkema, has ordered the operator of the site, Lei Shi, to give $2.35 million in addition to legal costs in the ruling on June 20 in a lawsuit of copyright infringement.
As per the court documents, the GMAC quoted a posting by one of the users who said that the information present on the website is ‘inestimable’ and that he has seen 10-12 items verbatum and a large number of questions were very familiar. The spokeswoman for GMAC, Judy Phair, said on Wednesday that the website started in 2003 and since then, there are GMAT 6,000 scores in question. Since the test is taken many times in a year, it is not easy to tell how many people are involved.
The council has planned to match information with the test takers and to cancel the marks of anybody who seems to have cheated in GMAT using Scoretop.com. Around 200,000 people take the test every year and over 4,000 graduate programs in management at 1,800 business institutes around the world use its score.
The business institutes are determining how to handle the canceled scores including the students who have already been enrolled in MBA programs and who have been admitted for the fall term. The Dean of Whitman School or Management of Syracuse University, Melvin T. Stith, said that a large number of MBA students have already informed that they had not used the website but if the GMAT discovers that they have, then they will have to retake the exam.
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