Unethical Behaviour
GAMSAT is a high stakes test; that is, the results have the potential to make a major impact on the future career of the test taker. For this reason standard security procedures will be strictly enforced at all times.
The giving of false or misleading information during the registration process, and any form of cheating during the test itself, are viewed as serious breaches of ethical behaviour and will attract severe penalties.
Any candidates found to be cheating will automatically have their GAMSAT scores cancelled and will be prohibited from applying to sit GAMSAT on a future occasion.
Practices which constitute cheating include:
- attempting to take the test on behalf of another person
- attempting to remove a test book or part thereof, or any notes, from the testing room
- failure to follow test supervisor’s instructions at all times
- giving or receiving assistance during the test
- creating a disturbance
- using prohibited aids (notes, note paper, mobile phone, tape recorder, etc.)
- writing during reading time.
- using or passing on information about test questions to a third party for the purpose of your own or the third party’s personal or commercial gain.
Breaches of copyright
Candidates are advised that GAMSAT is copyright material that is owned by the GAMSAT Consortium.
In addition to any penalty imposed for unethical behaviour arising from a candidate using or passing on information about test questions to third party for the purpose of the candidate’s or a third party’s personal or commercial gain, a candidate, or a person acting on a candidate’s behalf, who infringes or misuses the GAMSAT Consortium’s intellectual property rights in GAMSAT may be subject to legal action.
