ETS is full of it here. You can’t copy. Impossible. I’ve proctored the test.
You code what version of the test you are using. The tests are serialized, and you pass them out in row order. It makes copying an idiotic idea.
Possible to cheat? Absolutely, but not by copying someone else. The absolute easiest way to do it is via camera embedded in a pair of classes, hooked bluetooth into a wifi transmitter that allows someone in the parking lot with a monitor to answer the questions for you.
Reason why they may be saying what they are saying is because the written part of the exam and the multiple choice part are so far out of whack that it has to be something like that.
Doesn’t ETS get money every time the test is taken or re-taken?