{"id":80,"date":"2008-07-22T16:38:32","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T21:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangmat.com\/blog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2019-09-05T16:59:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T16:59:52","slug":"gmat-moves-toward-palm-scanning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/blog\/gmat-moves-toward-palm-scanning\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT moves toward Palm Scanning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Were there many ringers taking the GMAT for other people?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, GMAC isn&#8217;t taking any chances.  In the aftermath of the Scoretop affair, we now get <a href=\"\/\/wsj.com\/public\/article_print\/SB121669545112672811.html\">news from the Wall Street Journal<\/a> that GMAT test-takers will soon be subject to a palm scan.<\/p>\n<p>Though this seems a bit aggressive, the truth is that it&#8217;s really not much of a change; students were already getting fingerprinted, photographed, and videotaped when they took the test.  The palm scan is simply the next level of fingerprinting.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it certainly sends the message that one shouldn&#8217;t expend energy doing anything but studying for the GMAT itself!   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Were there many ringers taking the GMAT for other people? Apparently, GMAC isn&#8217;t taking any chances. In the aftermath of the Scoretop affair, we now get news from the Wall Street Journal that GMAT test-takers will soon be subject to a palm scan. Though this seems a bit aggressive, the truth is that it&#8217;s really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[302,303,777],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to-study","tag-gmat-palm-scan","tag-gmat-palm-scanning","tag-wall-street-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17978,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/17978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}