Daher griffen die Mainstream-Medien diese Geschichte auf, nachdem sie zum ersten Mal auf dem Insideparadeplatz berichtet wurde.
https://www.derbund.ch/wirtschaftspruefer-beim-abschlusstest-geschummelt-job-verloren-559120588563
Zuerst klang es so, als hätten die Schüler herausgefunden, wie sie auf die Lösungen einer Online-Prüfung zugreifen können "Hacken". Dann berichtete insideparadeplatz, dass der Link zum Zugang zu den Lösungen den Studierenden tatsächlich offen angezeigt wurde:
https://insideparadeplatz.ch/2024/09/24/revisoren-bschiss-bis-200-jung-stars-sanktioniert
Angesichts der Tatsache, dass 200 junge Menschen betroffen sind und Dutzende ihren Job verloren haben, habe ich jemanden gefunden, der dabei ist r/Schweiz ist hiervon betroffen.
Expertsuisse exam cheating scandal – Any insight into what exactly happened?
byu/onehandedbackhand inSwitzerland
Von onehandedbackhand
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Looks like the Expertsuisse employees are commenting from their high horses. I would expect some responsible people there to be fired too. After all, if 200 students manage to do it, you can’t credibly call it “hacking the system”.
Sometimes people are so stupid about making web exams. I had an exam once where after the first attempt it was supposed to tell you the overall score how many questions you had correct, but not which ones exactly. But if you inspected the page, there was a hidden div which had no text content, but had CSS values that told you which question was wrong. And this exam was from an antivirus manufacturer…
The error these students seem to have made is that their method of cheating involved an additional HTTPS query which they submitted under their own user account so it was logged.
If we can believe the “Inside Paradeplatz” article, absolutely no cheating happened.
Some of the students (or rather: examinees) simply clicked on a link where they could see the results of their own exam *after* they had handed in that exam.
So the “problem” here seems not to be about cheating, the problem seems to be that ExpertSuisse wants to avoid transparentcy in their exams. Apparently their modus operandi has been so far that they don’t tell the students which of their answers were correct and which weren’t.
Inside Paradeplatz speculates that this is because they’ve always been using the same questions for years and would now have to come up with new ones if the questions & results from prior exams become public.
People in the comments speculate that it’s even worse: apparently there is a limited number of students who are “allowed” to pass. So if you’re in a “good” year, you have to do better in the exam compared to a “bad” year. Obviously an organization who pulls such shenannigans without being really transparent about it also doesn’t want that the students know many of the questions they got right and how many they didn’t.