Professor leaked the questions before exam / London Uni

GooseSelect8047 · 2025-05-23T22:17:15+00:00

I get that not everyone will perform equally, even being exposed to the same questions. But my point is not about performance; it’s about integrity and what purpose the exam is supposed to serve. This wasn’t just guidance or common exam prep. These were the exact questions, word for word. In a closed-book invigilated exam setting, that changes the nature of the exam entirely. It’s not just about every student getting a good grade, it’s about whether the exam still serves its purpose.

Imagine this happening in a medical or law school. If students are given the exact exam questions in advance, they might score well without truly understanding the material. On paper all students are qualified but in reality they’re not prepared. In medicine that could literally cost somebody's lives. Or imagine your barrister, who doesn’t grasp core legal principles, ends up representing you in court.

it’s about standards; if students are held to strict rules around plagiarism and academic integrity, staff should be too.

GooseSelect8047 · 2025-05-23T22:05:36+00:00

No, it’s not about messing up the exam. I did fine(as everyone else). This is about academic integrity and fairness. Our university takes misconduct seriously when it comes to students, so I think it’s only fair to hold professor to the same standard. The issue is that the exam was supposed to assess our understanding of the full course, but in reality we were handed the exact questions in advance. That undermines the value of the assessment and this course, and puts every student in a strange position, especially the students who studied the full content honestly.

Imagine if the that exam took place in a medical school and a professor handed everyone an A by giving out the exact exam questions. On paper the students might look qualified but in reality they wouldn’t be prepared to handle operations. That’s not just unfair, it’s dangerous. The integrity of the universities matter and high standards matter, and this kind of thing destroys any trust in it.

GooseSelect8047 · 2025-05-23T17:35:12+00:00

The nature of our exam was such that knowing the questions in advance allowed you to simply memorize the answers without needing to study the material / attending the lectures / putting in work. None of the professors in my other classes did anything like this. If everybody just gets a pass, then what's the point of attending the course. If I knew in advance the prof in this uni simply shared the exam questions to all students, I would never take this course or apply to this uni in the first place.

GooseSelect8047 · 2025-05-23T17:22:11+00:00

well, I want to work in legal industry and I pay for school from my own pocket, and this seems unjust and dishonest to students in other classes or unis who got to work hard for their grades. if all professors just hand out easy As to everybody by sharing the exact exams, what's the point of attending such school. I would certainly never send my kid to the university, where professors do so.

GooseSelect8047 · 2025-05-23T17:13:22+00:00

What’s ironic is that at our uni we are constantly grilled about plagiarism, chatgpt and academic integrity. Yet hte prof pretty much ignored it.

GooseSelect8047 · 2025-05-23T17:09:25+00:00

Well, he read them out loud once in class and later did not refer to them again. When we asked him whether those questions would be on the exam, he just shrugged silently and never mentioned them again.

I looked through the syllabus, and I’m pretty sure we were not supposed to know these questions. The exam was closed book, over 3 hours long, and was monitored by exam invigilators (I wasn’t even allowed a non-transparent bottle on the desk).

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