1. if you can figure out how to do this, you're intelligent enough to score in the top 90th percentile on the exam.
2. good luck getting away with this in person at the proctored exam.
With the kind of money involved sophisticated cheating by professionals is a thing. This isn’t kids in the bathroom level cheating it’s mob and organized crime level.
So how is it worse than what happens now? These tests are worth a lot to a very small subset of people. The average high schooler (even the bottom 85%+) does not have access to those resources
Yep, the article says the exam is still on-site and proctored. Any cheating would have to be self-contained to the laptop and not obvious to someone looking over the cheater's shoulder.