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Re:Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots by array_key_first on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @02:09PM (#46696394)
They're also susceptible to old-school cheating - sharing answers. When I was in college, multiple choice exams were almost extinct because students would form groups and collect/share answers over the years.

You can solve that but it's a combinatorial explosion.

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Re:Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots by Yoric on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @06:05PM (#46698869)
A long time ago, when I handed out exams, for each question, I used to program my exam questions into a generator that produced both not-entirely-identical questions for each student (typically, only the numeric values changed) and the matching answers for whoever was in charge of assessing.

That was a bit time-consuming, of course.

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