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i’ve never taken an exam like this so i’m not exactly qualified to give my opinion, but it seems pretty unreasonable to disqualify the whole paper for one question that the administration is not even sure has been cheated on. disqualifying that question (or even giving half marks for that question, since the examiner doesn’t seem very sure that the question should be invalidated, but I don’t know if that’s how these types of exams work) would seem much more reasonable. I take the PSAT next year, so I guess i’ll find out then.
Also, like other people have been asking, was this your exam?? If it was, this was absolutely unnecessary.
seems to me that it'd be reasonableish to award no marks for that question. disqualifying the whole paper seems excessive. the IB is an interesting entity sometimes
yeah. what if the student had just memorized the value of root 3 over 2 or something??
this you? what was the question? if it was multiple choice the allegation is stupid, but if it was just a number based answer then sounds like they put a question as bait?
probably should’ve elaborated, it’s an example from the IB of a case they had in the past. my interpretation is there was no evidence the candidate used a calculator, other than an answer which might’ve come from one, yet they still penalized the student. I think that’s unfair
That's like being accused of hacking when you're just good. I would protest the hell out of that. Hell, even if they used a calculator, I'd let that slide because they clearly weren't caught by the proctor.
Don’t like it at all the candidate may have not used a calculator and could’ve been robbed
Was this you?