Officials at Vantage Learning of Newtown, Pa., said the Graduate Management Admission Council chose the company to provide computer-based essay scoring for the Analytical Writing Assessment portion of the GMAT, used by business colleges to judge prospective graduate students.Vantage, a division of Vantage Laboratories Inc., was selected by ACT Inc., the not-for-profit organization that manages the development of the GMAT, to be used in conjunction with humans to develop prompts and to score the …showed first 75 words of 660 total…

…showed last 75 words of 660 total…like to think of it as the computer is verifying the human, the computer is an amalgamation of a lot of humans reading the essay," said Larry Rudner, vice president of research and development at GMAC. "It's a form of quality control. If the program's score differs from a human's score by more than one point, it goes to arbitration and a senior human scorer sets the grade. That should pretty much end that argument."