Hello Rebecca

I gave my GMAT exam yesterday and I have got a few questions about what are the rules GMAC has set for it's testing centres / other rules

1) Other Candidates: I checked it on 10:30 and the other candidate checked it at 11:00 or 11:15. So right when my exam is in progress the candidate is sitting on the other side of the half floor height glass partition and checking in. It was all clearly audible to me. I had to wear ear plugs which may or may not have affected my performance. Are there any rules around it?

2) Replacement pad: I asked for a replacement writing pad and the Centre manager took atleast 3-4 minutes to pick a pad even when a bundle of 15 pads was sitting on his table within 3 feet from him and me. After 3-4 mins of casually walking around the small room when he gave me the writing pad he asked me to give it back to him to check if nothing was written on it. That was a good 5 mins of lost time and I had to skip 2 questions in a row.

3) Noise: There was construction noise on the upper floor (although it din't go for more than 15-20 mins). The centre manager sitting on the other side of the (half floor length) glass partition yelled out something on his mobile phone. I was concentrating so did not pay any attention but are there any rules around for such things?

* I am happy to provide you my appointment ID and you are welcome to check the video recording for #1,#2 and #3.

4) I am very suspicious about my GMAT results. Is it possible for the centre manager to have control over the results anyway, anyhow? Or is it possible that some answers were not registered at the server?

5) I do not pay much attention to IR to save energy for Verbal. So i guessed most of the I.R. Please confirm that poor performance in IR does not affects the scores of the next section (i.e. Quant).

I have been studying for about a year now. I gave a few CATs recently - MGMAT CAT (580 Q41 , V 30), Veritas (610 Q 40, V 34) and Veritas ( 610 Q42 , V 32).

Formal GMAT exam - Sep 10, 2013 510 Q 32 V 28

All the questions I got on the real exam were very easier than practice exam and only a total of 3-4 were difficult ones which I may have gone wrong with. I know you will say that you cannot speak about 3rd party tests but please be assured whatever I am saying is true. Even if i accept my Verbal score, I refuse to accept my Quant score of 32. If you give permission I can PM you at least 15 - 20 Quant questions with solutions (I still remember them!).

I would like to make a formal request to get this issue looked into plus I would like to report the notepad and noise incident. Some one recommended me to request a refund/resit the exam.

Also, I did not get any I.R. results on the unofficial printout. Do I have to wait until I get an official GMAT score card?

Please advice.

Thanks