DAE Consider the Effect of Google Glass / High Tech Wearables on the MCAT?

[To be MD]

This is a futurology kind of post, but I do sincerely wonder when the AAMC is going to updated their protocol to forbid/check for the existence any type of electronic eyeglass on the MCAT.

For those not in the know, Google Glass and similar wearable technologies, can look like regular glasses but have access to the internet that could be used by an examinee to cheat on the exam. Currently, there is nothing on the public market that would allow this to happen, but, surely within the next few years and definitely for those with the know-how, this is entirely possible and definitely problematic.

It seems like this is a highly unlikely scenario, but I don't like the sound of a computer wiz having a step up on the rest of us by connecting to the world wide web during the test. Thoughts?

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[ChrisMack390]

Thus far, all of these rely on voice commands, right?

 

[AnotherLawyer]

The bigger concern is probably someone photographing all the questions. Questions are reused from test to test. Someone could pay a bunch of people to take the test, photograph all the passages/questions, and then sell "test prep" material at a very high price. This actually happened for the multiple choice portion of the bar exam.