There are several news reports of yet another a high profile cheating scandal in India – this one of the JEE, the college entrance exam in engineering. Authorities have made an arrest.
Basically, the test fraud involved taking remote control of an examinee’s computer and, with the aid of an advance copy of test questions, filling in the answers. So far, the hacked exams appear to have been completed at a private test center, where employees participated in the fraud. The company and conspirator who sold the cheating were reportedly paid about $18,000 for a favorable school admissions outcome.
And an obvious question – if these students need to cheat to get into an engineering program, what do we think they will do once they’re in? But at least Indian officials caught the fraud and took action – at least that’s something.
