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Posted: Sunday, 27 July 2008 11:47AM
Graduate School Tests to Use High Tech Security Measures
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BERKELEY, Calif. (KCBS) -- In an effort to ensure honesty, the company that administers the standardized test required for admission to business school is introducing a new security measure. KCBS reporter Melissa Culross tells us palm scans will be used to confirm the identity of people taking the exam.
The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) is necessary for admission to business school, which can mean a lot of of pressure according to Peg Jobst with the Graduate Management Admission Council, which oversees the exam.
"The stakes of doing well on the test are very high. So that means we want to make very sure that the person taking the test is the very same person that shows up in the classroom of the school that accepted that candidate," says Jobst.
In the past, fraudulent test takers have been caught taking standardized tests including the GMAT for applicants who paid them. Jobst says security procedures like fingerprinting are already in place at GMAT testing centers, but soon palm scans will replace fingerprinting.
The Palm scans take an infrared picture of blood coursing through test takers hands something unique to each person. Yobst says the palm scans will be much more accurate.
Peter Johnson, executive director of Admission for the MBA program at Berkeley's Haas School of Business says he supports security measures at testing centers. "In our admissions process we have a number of items that we review in making admission so really the test score is simply one of those things. But we take the integrity of the admissions process very seriously," he says.
Palm scanning will begin at GMAT testing centers in parts of Asia next month, and should be worldwide by next spring.
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KCBS' Melissa Culross reports
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