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Murphy’s law: If there is a test, there will be a way to cheat it 😂

Murphy’s law: If there is a test, there will be a way to cheat it 😂 Many Chinese students have been cheating on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (Toefl) exam since it...

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Murphy’s law: If there is a test, there will be a way to cheat it 😂

  • Many Chinese students have been cheating on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (Toefl) exam since it became available for at-home testing in 2020.

  • These students have been aided by professionals who charge a few thousand US dollars to make sure students obtain scores high enough to get them into top universities.

  • This has turned into a multimillion-dollar industry in China, known as "baofen," or "guaranteed scores."

  • Some test-prep professionals have obtained test materials in advance, while others have sat next to students or remotely controlled their computers to take the exams for them. Some have even appeared on camera dressed as their student clients to pass spoken tests.

  • Im interested to see how the testing companies will use different types of technologies to tackle these problems. Or maybe the testing industry needs to reinvent itself

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