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AP Exams Leaked in China
- holonsphere 2y agoI got a free education co-learning with chinese kids at CMU. 95% of all the course material for all their classes were already available to them in their respective language. Most of it seemed superior to the actual course material as it most often included parables, idioms, diagrams, and community sourced notes. They all had an earnest plan to learn as much of the material (if not more) than their American peers but they were simply playing another game.
- jl2718 2y agoWould you rather hire someone with poor grades who struggled to find answers on their own, or someone who had excellent grades utilizing superior resources and teamwork? The reality is that the former student will probably never get a place at the table because they’ll get filtered out of the ‘elite’ pipeline sooner than later, and even if they do make it through, they probably also lack the same resources for your companies’s interview process. Some people want to do it on their own and refuse to cheat. What is the best strategy for someone in that group? Is school and big tech just not for them?
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoAbout the test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaokao https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaokao
- karunamurti 2y agoThis is AP exams, not Gaokao. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Placement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Placement
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoSorry I didn't see anything about Chinese taking of the tests on there and thought it was the other one. Honestly the AP exam is a completely alien concept to me (in Canada)
- LorenzoGood 2y agoI take the Ap Calculus exam tomorrow. Hopefully it goes well and none of the papers are leaked
- insane_dreamer 2y agothis has happened before; one year College Board canceled all the AP and SAT scores in China/HK (possibly elsewhere) because of it.
- euroderf 2y agoNY state has Regents exams. One year (1980s?) they got stolen from a school safe ahead of the exams. The exams were cancelled statewide. The cops caught the perps (kids) and gave them immunity to name the folks that set them up to do the job. Surprise: the kids did it all on their own. Immunity was kept: they got off.
- ch92620 2y agoThis happens basically every year