Online Class can be an easy "A" for cheaters

preamble1776
Wed, 18 Jun 2014 02:11:43 +0000

I was able to take my Math placement test at home prior to my Freshman orientation a few weeks back - the testing window was 24 hours (for a 50 question test) with no anti-cheating measures in place other than the assumption that people wouldn’t cheat on a placement test and subsequently flounder in an upper level math class they couldn’t handle. However, the test also entailed a waiver for a particular general ed if one scored high enough - which I did. I later found out that I couldn’t waive the requirement unless I took the test on campus with a proctor. A pain in the ass to be honest, but I buckled down and retook it and ended up with the same score. I’m thankful I didn’t cheat (using a calculator counted as cheating in this case, along with the other typical tactics like googling answers or having someone else take the test) because it would look pretty suspicious if I placed into Calculus II the first time around only to get placed into Algebra II the second time, LOL.