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Re:Chinese students and families fight for the right to chea... by vehementi on Sunday June 23, 2013 @03:18AM (#5926533)
Devil's advocate: grades are a stupid thing; if someone sits in class and learns and for the exam needs to cheat in order to keep up with cheat-driven-grades-inflation, we have not made a comment about that student's ability or anything. The elites may yet be elite.
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Re:Chinese students and families fight for the right to chea... by chris_wot on Sunday June 23, 2013 @05:33AM (#5926816)
All that proves is that exams aren't the best way of assessing someone's ability. However, cheating doesn't show ability in anything, other than deviousness.
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