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How are these exams performed? It's a red flag to me that it's even possible to pass exam answers around. Do the examinees surveil themselves?
by dmos62 4y ago
How are these exams performed? It's a red flag to me that it's even possible to pass exam answers around. Do the examinees surveil themselves?
- m348e912 4y agoThey may have done what many US university fraternity organizations do. Procure a copy of test questions. With frats it's usually test questions from previous year provided by upperclassmen who have already completed the course. Many times the test questions don't change significantly year over year.
- user_named 4y agoAt my European top university, a database of previous exams was available for every single course, provided by the university itself.
- eatsyourtacos 4y agoI can't say to now, but back around 17 years ago when I took them, they moved to 100% on the computer. You would go into one of those testing facilities, and be on the machine and be answering questions. I'm pretty sure the questions were even fairly randomized- in the sense that the person sitting next to you would not have all the same questions etc. Which is why the results of pass/fail were not immediate, they would aggregate everyone's scores and probably do stuff for questions that were similar etc. I may be wrong on the randomized part, but I don't recall being able to discuss any specific questions with classmates afterwards.. Anyway- perhaps things have changed from 2005 but I don't really understand how one is able to cheat on the CPA with specific questions like they are talking about.. unless it would be taking pictures/video of their test and showing that to others.. although honestly I don't even see how that would help- when I took the exams the questions are 100% what you would have expected to be asked. It's just like a practice test book, you just don't know exactly what they are going to ask.