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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids are also cheating like crazy. IYKYK[/quote]

Yes.  My kid is not cheating and grades reflect that.  The profs know but feel there is nothing they can do.  I feel like they should be able to catch some of these kids and send a strong signal but alas they don’t pursue the cases because it is too much work and there is parental pushback. It’s very sad.[/quote]

UVa has online exams and recently some departments changed back to inperson due to rampant cheating. Exams are becoming more short and long answer instead of multiple choice. Professors are starting to allow everyone to bring in equations etc and making exams challenging so having equations does not help. 
Top schools have already been doing this for years: it is almost impossible to cheat when the exam has one problem per page with 8 different solvable parts to each problem and exams are in person on paper. UVA used to be one of the most paper-preferred colleges and it changed for the worse in covid. It is changing back fast. This is direct information from a stem professor and relates to significant cheating in a classic premed course that happened fall 2024. My kid is at an ivy and was explaining the long paper tests that are not cheatable: uva apparently used to do more of that and moved to online exams in covid. It will improve soon[/quote]

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