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found my university exam online

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uniadvice84747 · 19/01/2022 16:05

i’m in my final year of university and have just done one of my exams. it was a multiple choice question exam done from home online.

basically i’m really confused and feel a bit like i’ve done something i shouldn’t have - my teacher had released practice quizzes over the last few months. these quizzes were taken directly from an external website not linked to the university, so they’re not the teachers own questions etc. didn’t think much of it as they were practice quizzes. i’ve been doing those, printed them off, studied them multiple times etc.

the actual exam today was made up entirely, word for word, of those questions. it took me about 10 minutes to complete an hours exam because i had literally studied the exact questions as revision. so my teacher has basically copied and pasted questions from a different website for our exam. is this allowed? i feel like i’ve cheated because i sort of knew every question and answer before they were up and it’s panicking me a bit, i also don’t understand why a teacher would copy and paste official exam questions for a real exam, it seems so risky? you can literally google the question and the whole quiz comes up with all of the answers on the original website? Hmm

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Changechangychange · 20/01/2022 18:42

@poetryandwine I think she was responding to a PP, who thought all open book/online exams done at home were easy to cheat on.

inmyslippers · 20/01/2022 18:43

Lucky you

Changechangychange · 20/01/2022 18:58

@KerryWeaver

I'm surprised the university is allowed to use multiple-choice questions to assess a subject in an award year.

MCQs are fine in the early years as low-stakes assessments in the early stages of a subject to test understanding of key concepts but are absolutely not appropriate in an award year.

And yet medical postgraduate exams (to become a consultant) are MCQs, both in the UK and internationally, and significant numbers of presumably bright doctors fail them each year.
horseymum · 22/01/2022 15:00

They certainly used to be negative marking though, so you can't just guess. I've each one you get wrong comes off the total.

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