Bad news for all you students taking the GMAT in May – you can no longer lure geniuses to take it for you. Because the constant surveillance and monitoring wasn't enough, anti-cheating developers felt that more needed to be done about cheating.

Beginning in May, GMAT test takers will have to undergo a “palm vein” test to ensure that students are who they say they are. GMAT Council president David Wilson admitted that the council underestimated the amount of cheating going on and therefore upped the ante.

The test originally required students to be photographed, fingerprinted, and videotaped during the exam. With heightened sensitivity and anxiety about test taking, students felt that fingerprinting was more associated with prison than business school. To keep the honor standards high and the jailhouse feelings low, the GMAT will replace the fingerprinting with vein scanning.

On the opposite end of the spectrum is the BAR exam which is reverting back to the olden days of paper and pen. After hearing about panic-stricken students losing their testing essays to computer crashes, half of the students taking the BAR this year have opted to leave their laptops at home. Students who choose to go down the risky computer path must have Windows, as the program is not Apple-friendly.

We hope all these changes on standardized testing will relieve some stress and keep students from popping pre-test Klonopins to keep calm.