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An AI-Supervised Remote Exam Went So Badly That 58,000 Students Must Retake It
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This is a large-scale failure of AI-supervised remote assessment: the proctoring system failed to maintain score validity, and the institution decided to discard results entirely rather than attempt targeted corrections. For anyone building or operating remote proctoring or identity-verification systems, it underscores that technical deployment at scale can produce outcomes bad enough to force a full reversion to in-person processes.
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Top scores surged well beyond historical norms: 16.3% of test takers scored 100 or higher this year versus 3.5% between 2021 and 2025, and 5.5% scored 110 or higher versus 0.9% in the same prior period.
An expert commission recommended a 'control exam' administered in person, which will affect roughly 58,000 people including not just this year's admitted applicants but also those who would have qualified based on minimum scores since 2021.
The university rector apologized to honest applicants who must now retake the exam, calling the in-person control exam 'necessary to give certainty and guarantee equity in access.'
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