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christian.sealy
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Sharing Self Guided Study materials

by christian.sealy Fri Oct 23, 2009 4:48 pm

Good day,

I have a question. I plan to do the GMAT Exam early next year (probably by February). Now, I have study partner, and I was wondering if you thought it would be a good idea to for us to purchase, and share one (1) of your Guided Self Study GMAT Programs to reduce our overall costs.

What are your thoughts?
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Re: Sharing Self Guided Study materials

by StaceyKoprince Fri Oct 23, 2009 6:07 pm

If you want to buy a set of books and share them, you can do that. If you are talking about the programs that include online materials, however, you'll only get one access with one purchase, so one of you wouldn't have online access. A bunch of the materials (including the practice tests!) are online. All online-access products and packages are for one person only.

The IT department does keep track of where people access accounts from. We have had people who have bought one account and then let others use it (we think they were selling access, actually), and the IT department cancelled the account because they could see from the usage and access data that multiple people were using the account.

You may be able to save costs by getting just one set of books and sharing those, though!
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christian.sealy
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Re: Sharing Self Guided Study materials

by christian.sealy Fri Oct 23, 2009 8:37 pm

Great.

Thanks for the advice.
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Re: Sharing Self Guided Study materials

by StaceyKoprince Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:42 am

you're welcome!
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