A candidate who came first in South Korea’s certified tax accountancy exam has admitted cheating by using a miniature camera, mobile phone and AI tools. Han Won-seok confessed in a video on the YouTube account of his lawyer, Lee Don-Ho, adding that he had confessed to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency and offered details on
Kim Kardashian has said she will retake the California bar exam with the aim of becoming a lawyer in real life, after playing one in the legal drama All’s Fair. The reality TV star and actress discovered she had failed the exam after the first series of the Hulu programme aired last year. She had
Such experiences have fuelled calls from student activists and opposition politicians to scrap the NTA altogether. Educationists argue that scrapping the agency would not solve the underlying problem. The NTA needs deep structural reform to address recurring failures, but abolishing it is not the answer, said M Jagadesh Kumar, former chairman of India’s universities regulator.
The rapid spread of generative AI tools has exposed deep vulnerabilities in conventional methods of academic assessment. This challenge came into sharp focus for me when I found evidence of widespread unauthorized use of artificial intelligence in an examination for my course on welfare economics and social-choice theory at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island,
Weeks after thousands of young Indians poured onto the streets of Delhi in a major ‘cockroach’ protest over examination paper leaks, another group of frustrated job seekers is making headlines – this time hundreds of miles away, in the eastern state of Jharkhand. Protesters have gathered at a stadium in the state capital Ranchi, since
Investigators say the shortage has fueled an increasingly sophisticated paper leak scandal, linking teachers, middlemen and test center staff. Computer testing closes some of those vulnerabilities. But create others. Misra says even relatively minor technical glitches can affect candidates in ways that are difficult to quantify. “A mouse not working is not just about pausing
