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by parsimo2010 2280 days ago
While cheating may happen, it’s not like this will result in a whole class of college graduates being unqualified. You aren’t given an engineering degree just because you got a 5 on the BC calc exam. You still have pass your college classes.

The kids that couldn’t pass without cheating will fail their coursework (some will cheat all the way through college, but that has always happened). The kids that could have passed without cheating will have the same outcome as if they didn’t cheat, except they will have lost some integrity.

So there might be a few extra graduates that make it through because they were able to cheat an online exam in high school, but it’s not going to be a huge change.

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There are only so many seats though, so some kids will get cheated out of going to their school of choice (or going at all) because of some cheaters.