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Given the year+ we've just had, I'm more surprised to see comments like this ignoring the possibility that perhaps students aren't sat in schools or exam rooms?
by alias_neo 5y ago
Given the year+ we've just had, I'm more surprised to see comments like this ignoring the possibility that perhaps students aren't sat in schools or exam rooms?
If you had an entire country worth of students taking exams from home, absolutely possible given the past year, and you wanted, as a government to prevent them cheating by accessing the internet, what, I wonder would the most obvious solution be?
For what it's worth, I still believe it's an utterly ridiculous measure, but how can we not be considering this possibility?
- halfdan 5y agoUhm. Without Internet they can't take tests from home unless you mail it to them - at that point cheating becomes much easier by just meeting up with your buddies and doing the test together.
- alias_neo 5y agoIf the servers for the exams are hosted in the country, why would they need ”internet”? The gov only needs to block connections leaving the country, for example.
- quenix 5y agoStudents would still be able to cheat by collaborating with students and tutors inside the country, then.
- worewood 5y agoLimit access to only those servers.
- crossroadsguy 5y agoSo you assume there can’t be a server inside the country which hosts the answers?
- crossroadsguy 5y agoYou don’t need Internet to cheat in exam. In fact for a paper based exam of fixed questions Internet is quite bad for cheating. You’d get better help by asking someone or just opening the book. Or even better if someone else can do it for you. So, were you able to see why many are not seeing or not willing to see that possibility?