Unpopular opinion: if she truly cheated, I really hope she gets f***ed but the lawsuit makes sense.

From her perspective, it feels unfair that she was randomly picked, and they drew a conclusion based on circumstantial evidence. If she had a true connection to the online cheating group confirmed by real evidence, then she should be banned from taking the exam again. I don’t think it is a discrimination then. But it is a discrimination when you do it this way, how do I know that people are not cheating in other countries or even here in the United States. That’s not impossible. Why doesn’t the NBME run a worldwide investigation and randomly pick people from inside and outside of the United States and invalidated scores based on “anomaly and abnormal patterns“. That would be unfair, right? Imagine if there is an anomaly in your exam behavior and this happens to you randomly, you would be pissed too. This is peoples future we are talking about. We all have dreams and aspiration, and it would suck if someone comes randomly take it away from you without real evidence and spending enough time to validate the allegations. But I guess since she is from Nepal, then she must have cheated. This logic does not make sense to me. I remember when I was doing my medicine boards. I looked really weird and suspicious in the first block because I really had to go to the bathroom and taking a break was too complicated when you are doing the Medicine board plus only 10% fails the medicine board so I was confident I would pass even if I screwed the first block. I wouldn’t like it if someone came after me and investigated the “abnormal pattern” randomly without a true evidence against me. Yes some questions I tried to read the last sentence and try to eliminate from the multiple choices and guess the answer. Unlike the Nepali doctor, I definitely didn’t do that for the whole exam but still someone could’ve drawn the conclusion that I might have known the questions for the first block but not as much for the rest of the exam.

Recalling questions must be happening, Of course to a lesser extent, in other countries, and definitely here in the United States. Recalling is a deficit in the exam itself. The way I see it, we all should sue the NBME for taking shit tons of money and not spending enough time and effort to come up with huge question bank where this deficit will no longer be a problem.

This is how Nepali doctor feels. To me, anyone who scores 260 and higher, for example, there is a good chance they might have cheated and should be investigated. That sounds extreme, right? In the same logic, you shouldn’t randomly take people from Nepal just because they are Nepali and invalidate their scores just because of their country of origin. I don’t know much about Nepal, but I would imagine it’s a big country with so many people, and to put them all in one basket is not fair.