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September 8, 2006 |
| Dear Associate, |
Would you think it strange if someone took the Multistate Bar Exam 20 times? In a recent suit against Multistate Legal Studies, a test prep company, it was discovered that one of the company’s founders had taken the MBE more than 20 times.
Why would anyone want to take the MBE more than 20 times?
A) He is a slow learner.
B) He wants to fully understand the material to be a better trainer.
C) He's there to copy questions and use those same questions as training materials.
Sadly the correct answer is “C.” The National Conference of Bar Examiners recently received a court ruling concluding that MLSI was indeed illegally copying items and ordered them to pay more than $11.9 million in damages. See the first article below.
Related to the story above, Caveon General Counsel, Bob Hunt will be presenting: New Developments in the War on Test Theft. The webinar will examine two recent efforts by test publishers to punish test theft including the legal process and standards used to take-on “braindump” websites and sophisticated “harvesters” of protected test content. To register click here.
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Best regards,
Don Sorensen
VP of Marketing
Caveon Test Security
P.S., If you happen to be attending the CLEAR Conference in Washington D.C. next week please stop by the Caveon booth and I’ll give you a copy of the 10 Most Wanted Cheaters poster. |
1 > Bar Prep Co. Ordered to Pay $11.9M for Copying Multistate Exam Questions
Law.com
...In a ruling that promises to fundamentally alter the way many American law students prepare for the bar exam, a federal judge has concluded that a California company illegally copied questions from the Multistate Bar Examination for use in its bar exam preparation courses and ordered it to pay more than $11.9 million to the National Conference of Bar Examiners.... |
2 > Language exams faked
Budapest Times - Hungary
...An advertiser told Magyar Hírlap that tiny earphones and micro-cameras are used to dictate answers to students, costing around HUF 100,000 (EUR 360) for an intermediate level exam and HUF 130,000 (EUR 469) for an advanced level exam. Legally this counts only as a simple form of cheating, an “ethical offence”, so the only risk for the candidate is that of being excluded from the exam if they are discovered. ... |
3 > Crunching numbers to find Texas cheats
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
...There's one big difference between Caveon's methods and those of most academics in the field. Technically speaking, Caveon isn't searching for students who might be cheating. It's searching for classrooms and schools where an unusually high number of students might be cheating.... |
4 > MCAS and cheating
Boston Globe - United States
...THE 15 CASES of teachers accused of helping students to cheat on this spring's Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System exam hardly amount to an epidemic in a state with 70,000 licensed teachers. But it raises important questions about why any educator would willingly risk his or her job and license by undermining student assessments.... |
5 > Cheating on nurses' test cited
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
...Nurses have become one of the Philippines' top exports, helping fill shortages of caregivers at hospitals around the globe. But credentials for thousands are under a cloud because of alleged cheating in recent certification exams.... |
6 > Exam malpractice: How we got to this point
Vanguard - Apapa,Lagos,Nigeria
...Examination Malpractice of the worst type. Aiding abetting or involvement in examination malpractice amounts to facilitating the enthronement of mediocre, half-baked incompetent and corrupt workforce. It amount to facilitating the production of quack professionals including doctors, nurses, lawyers, building engineers, ad replying on certificates rather than knowledge.... |
7 > Video shows all in exam cheating scandal
Thanh Nien Daily - Ho Chi Minh city,Vietnam
...With fresh film video as evidence of rampant cheating, provincial education authorities are set to investigate a high school graduation exam that took place at Nam Dan 2 School in central Nghe An province.... |
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