{"id":24417,"date":"2009-10-29T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/?p=24417\/"},"modified":"2017-01-21T06:40:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T06:40:47","slug":"med-students-also-had-recycled-exams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/med-students-also-had-recycled-exams\/","title":{"rendered":"Med students also had recycled exams"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the Danish site Universitetsavisen<\/em> recently reported, students at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Pharma) were twice presented with exam questions they had gone through earlier that year, or that they had access to online.<\/p>\n

It turns out Pharma is not alone. At the Faculty of Health Science there has been at least two examples of old exam questions being reused in exams, despite them already being available to the students. The exams in question were the 9th semester exam in February, and the 2nd semester exam in June.<\/p>\n

Not even spelling mistakes were altered<\/h2>\n

In February, students of medicine took an exam where three out of the four questions were copied directly from old exam papers.<\/p>\n

This exam was done without notes, but the old questions had been freely available online, and are used by most students prepping for the exam.<\/p>\n

If the students had not already been able to recognise the exam question, a noticeable and amusing spelling mistake that was still included tickled their memory.<\/p>\n

Unfair to the students<\/h2>\n

\u00bbYou feel cheated as a student,\u00ab says Jannie Pedersen, who took the aforementioned exam.<\/p>\n

\u00bbBecause the people responsible can\u2019t be bothered to make a decent exam, you don\u2019t get to show what we have learnt. It only proves that you have read up on old exam questions. To put it bluntly, you can pass the exam without showing that you have a grip on medicine and surgery.\u00ab<\/p>\n

Recycle in moderation<\/h2>\n

Head of the study board at the Faculty of Health, J\u00f8rgen Olsen, explains that the recycling of questions is because of new lead examiner starting, and that the new lead examiner did not receive as much help as they normally would, due to a recent reshuffling of staff.<\/p>\n

\u00bbIt isn\u2019t unusual for exam questions to recur. It can help us judge what level the new students are at, in comparison to the previous years. That it was three out of four question is, however, definitely a mistake.\u00ab<\/p>\n

J\u00f8rgen Olsen points out that the lead examiners for the 9th semester work as both doctors and tutors. This may add pressure to the job, leading to such a mistake. <\/p>\n

Computers complicate things<\/h2>\n

Olsen had not been informed that there was also a mistake in the June exam, and had not heard about it until the University Post brings it up.<\/p>\n

The exam was in \u2018Medicinal Psychology\u2019, and people can bring notes. Olsen explains that questions in that subject are about answering a given case in many different ways.<\/p>\n

\u00bbNormally we reuse cases with a gap of a few years, but this time it has happened just a year after,\u00ab he says. \u00bbThe answers are not freely available to students, but as we do our exams on PCs, students are sent their own answers after the exams. It has become easier to circulate the answers among the students.\u00ab<\/p>\n

Can\u2019t you just make new questions each year?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00bbYes, but the case and the questions don\u2019t mean so much. At the exam it\u2019s about using certain theories for different cases. The problem is that students can bring the answers with them to the exam.\u00ab<\/p>\n

No doubt that it is cheating<\/h2>\n

The students at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences that the Danish media Universitetsavisen<\/em>spoke to in the previous cases, suggested that the mistakes were perhaps made on purpose, to boost funding by producing good results. According to Jens Helby, Head of the student organisation \u2018Demokratiske Medicinere\u2019, this is not the case at the Faculty of Health:<\/p>\n

\u00bbThe speculations at Pharma, on whether or not exams are purposefully made easier makes no sense here at Health. These exams aren\u2019t difficult to pass \u2013 in 9th semester you are only tested on something you have been tested on before. But it is of course still unfair that students got through easier,\u00ab Jens Helby says.<\/p>\n

\u00bbPeople can feel ill treated when they see that the people who are doing really well, are people who just happen to be well-rehearsed in old exam questions.\u00ab<\/p>\n

ser@adm.ku.dk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pharma is not the only place students have been presented with old exam papers. Students of medicine have experienced it twice in the course of just six months. They feel unfairly treated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":24420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","expression-news_article"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\nMed students also had recycled exams<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/med-students-also-had-recycled-exams\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Med students also had recycled exams\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pharma is not the only place students have been presented with old exam papers. Students of medicine have experienced it twice in the course of just six months. They feel unfairly treated\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/med-students-also-had-recycled-exams\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"University Post\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uniavis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"-0001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-01-21T06:40:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sidste_aars_svar_skrift_0-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1660\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1305\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"MIGRATED_ARTICLES FROM_OLD_SITE\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Uniavisen\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Uniavisen\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"MIGRATED_ARTICLES FROM_OLD_SITE\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/med-students-also-had-recycled-exams\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/med-students-also-had-recycled-exams\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"MIGRATED_ARTICLES FROM_OLD_SITE\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/b4df0b22f9be3943039e58e94c400606\"},\"headline\":\"Med students also had recycled exams\",\"datePublished\":\"-0001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-01-21T06:40:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/med-students-also-had-recycled-exams\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":684,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/med-students-also-had-recycled-exams\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2009\\\/10\\\/sidste_aars_svar_skrift_0-1.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Education\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/med-students-also-had-recycled-exams\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/med-students-also-had-recycled-exams\\\/\",\"name\":\"Med students also had recycled exams\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/med-students-also-had-recycled-exams\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/med-students-also-had-recycled-exams\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2009\\\/10\\\/sidste_aars_svar_skrift_0-1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"-0001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-01-21T06:40:47+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/b4df0b22f9be3943039e58e94c400606\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/med-students-also-had-recycled-exams\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/med-students-also-had-recycled-exams\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/med-students-also-had-recycled-exams\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2009\\\/10\\\/sidste_aars_svar_skrift_0-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2009\\\/10\\\/sidste_aars_svar_skrift_0-1.jpg\",\"width\":1660,\"height\":1305,\"caption\":\"RECYCLING - It has happened again. This time the students at medicine were the ones able to lift answers from one exam to the other\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/med-students-also-had-recycled-exams\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Med students also had recycled exams\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/\",\"name\":\"University Post\",\"description\":\"Independent of management\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/b4df0b22f9be3943039e58e94c400606\",\"name\":\"MIGRATED_ARTICLES FROM_OLD_SITE\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/b6c147fc36e92c08c95515aba962dbc89107ed33613c690182f7e243d0c0a2ab?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/b6c147fc36e92c08c95515aba962dbc89107ed33613c690182f7e243d0c0a2ab?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/b6c147fc36e92c08c95515aba962dbc89107ed33613c690182f7e243d0c0a2ab?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"caption\":\"MIGRATED_ARTICLES FROM_OLD_SITE\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/author\\\/migrated_articles\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Med students also had recycled exams","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/med-students-also-had-recycled-exams\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Med students also had recycled exams","og_description":"Pharma is not the only place students have been presented with old exam papers. Students of medicine have experienced it twice in the course of just six months. They feel unfairly treated","og_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/med-students-also-had-recycled-exams\/","og_site_name":"University Post","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uniavis","article_published_time":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2017-01-21T06:40:47+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1660,"height":1305,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sidste_aars_svar_skrift_0-1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"MIGRATED_ARTICLES FROM_OLD_SITE","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@Uniavisen","twitter_site":"@Uniavisen","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"MIGRATED_ARTICLES FROM_OLD_SITE","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/med-students-also-had-recycled-exams\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/med-students-also-had-recycled-exams\/"},"author":{"name":"MIGRATED_ARTICLES FROM_OLD_SITE","@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/#\/schema\/person\/b4df0b22f9be3943039e58e94c400606"},"headline":"Med students also had recycled exams","datePublished":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2017-01-21T06:40:47+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/med-students-also-had-recycled-exams\/"},"wordCount":684,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/med-students-also-had-recycled-exams\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sidste_aars_svar_skrift_0-1.jpg","articleSection":["Education"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/med-students-also-had-recycled-exams\/","url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/med-students-also-had-recycled-exams\/","name":"Med students also had recycled exams","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/med-students-also-had-recycled-exams\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/med-students-also-had-recycled-exams\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sidste_aars_svar_skrift_0-1.jpg","datePublished":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2017-01-21T06:40:47+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/#\/schema\/person\/b4df0b22f9be3943039e58e94c400606"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/med-students-also-had-recycled-exams\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/med-students-also-had-recycled-exams\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/med-students-also-had-recycled-exams\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sidste_aars_svar_skrift_0-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sidste_aars_svar_skrift_0-1.jpg","width":1660,"height":1305,"caption":"RECYCLING - It has happened again. This time the students at medicine were the ones able to lift answers from one exam to the other"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/med-students-also-had-recycled-exams\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Med students also had recycled exams"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/#website","url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/","name":"University Post","description":"Independent of management","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/#\/schema\/person\/b4df0b22f9be3943039e58e94c400606","name":"MIGRATED_ARTICLES FROM_OLD_SITE","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b6c147fc36e92c08c95515aba962dbc89107ed33613c690182f7e243d0c0a2ab?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b6c147fc36e92c08c95515aba962dbc89107ed33613c690182f7e243d0c0a2ab?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b6c147fc36e92c08c95515aba962dbc89107ed33613c690182f7e243d0c0a2ab?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","caption":"MIGRATED_ARTICLES FROM_OLD_SITE"},"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/author\/migrated_articles\/"}]}},"advancedCustomFields":{"layout_group":[{"acf_fc_layout":"Headline","use_post_title":true,"headline":"","style":"default","highlighted_words":"","text_size":"medium"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":24420,"id":24420,"title":"sidste_aars_svar_skrift_0-1","filename":"sidste_aars_svar_skrift_0-1.jpg","filesize":218833,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sidste_aars_svar_skrift_0-1.jpg","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/med-students-also-had-recycled-exams\/sidste_aars_svar_skrift_0-1\/","alt":"","author":"0","description":"RECYCLING - It has happened again. This time the students at medicine were the ones able to lift answers from one exam to the other","caption":"RECYCLING - It has happened again. This time the students at medicine were the ones able to lift answers from one exam to the other","name":"sidste_aars_svar_skrift_0-1","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":24417,"date":"2017-01-20 00:09:14","modified":"2017-01-20 00:09:17","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1660,"height":1305,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sidste_aars_svar_skrift_0-1-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sidste_aars_svar_skrift_0-1-480x377.jpg","medium-width":480,"medium-height":377,"medium_large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sidste_aars_svar_skrift_0-1-768x604.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":604,"large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sidste_aars_svar_skrift_0-1-1280x1006.jpg","large-width":1280,"large-height":1006,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sidste_aars_svar_skrift_0-1.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1208,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sidste_aars_svar_skrift_0-1.jpg","2048x2048-width":1660,"2048x2048-height":1305,"featured-soft":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sidste_aars_svar_skrift_0-1-290x228.jpg","featured-soft-width":290,"featured-soft-height":228,"featured-hard":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sidste_aars_svar_skrift_0-1-290x180.jpg","featured-hard-width":290,"featured-hard-height":180,"narrow":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sidste_aars_svar_skrift_0-1-700x550.jpg","narrow-width":700,"narrow-height":550,"extended":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sidste_aars_svar_skrift_0-1-990x778.jpg","extended-width":990,"extended-height":778}},"style":"screen","text_placement":"metadata-below","image_link_url":"","image_link_title":"","caption_prefix":"","enable_alternative_caption":false,"alternative_caption":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"Standfirst","subject":"","text":"Pharma is not the only place students have been presented with old exam papers. Students of medicine have experienced it twice in the course of just six months. They feel unfairly treated","use_post_excerpt":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"Byline","is_author":false,"contributors":[{"use_registered_user":false,"user":false,"contributor_name":"Sune Engel Rasmussen, English version Sebastian Zieler","contributor_title":" ","contributor_image":false}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>As the Danish site <em>Universitetsavisen<\/em> recently reported, students at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Pharma) were twice presented with exam questions they had gone through earlier that year, or that they had access to online.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out Pharma is not alone. At the Faculty of Health Science there has been at least two examples of old exam questions being reused in exams, despite them already being available to the students. The exams in question were the 9th semester exam in February, and the 2nd semester exam in June.<\/p>\n<h2>Not even spelling mistakes were altered<\/h2>\n<p>In February, students of medicine took an exam where three out of the four questions were copied directly from old exam papers.<\/p>\n<p>This exam was done without notes, but the old questions had been freely available online, and are used by most students prepping for the exam.<\/p>\n<p>If the students had not already been able to recognise the exam question, a noticeable and amusing spelling mistake that was still included tickled their memory.<\/p>\n<h2>Unfair to the students<\/h2>\n<p>\u00bbYou feel cheated as a student,\u00ab says Jannie Pedersen, who took the aforementioned exam.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbBecause the people responsible can\u2019t be bothered to make a decent exam, you don\u2019t get to show what we have learnt. It only proves that you have read up on old exam questions. To put it bluntly, you can pass the exam without showing that you have a grip on medicine and surgery.\u00ab<\/p>\n<h2>Recycle in moderation<\/h2>\n<p>Head of the study board at the Faculty of Health, J\u00f8rgen Olsen, explains that the recycling of questions is because of new lead examiner starting, and that the new lead examiner did not receive as much help as they normally would, due to a recent reshuffling of staff.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbIt isn\u2019t unusual for exam questions to recur. It can help us judge what level the new students are at, in comparison to the previous years. That it was three out of four question is, however, definitely a mistake.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>J\u00f8rgen Olsen points out that the lead examiners for the 9th semester work as both doctors and tutors. This may add pressure to the job, leading to such a mistake. <\/p>\n<h2>Computers complicate things<\/h2>\n<p>Olsen had not been informed that there was also a mistake in the June exam, and had not heard about it until the University Post brings it up.<\/p>\n<p>The exam was in \u2018Medicinal Psychology\u2019, and people can bring notes. Olsen explains that questions in that subject are about answering a given case in many different ways.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbNormally we reuse cases with a gap of a few years, but this time it has happened just a year after,\u00ab he says. \u00bbThe answers are not freely available to students, but as we do our exams on PCs, students are sent their own answers after the exams. It has become easier to circulate the answers among the students.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p><em>Can\u2019t you just make new questions each year?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00bbYes, but the case and the questions don\u2019t mean so much. At the exam it\u2019s about using certain theories for different cases. The problem is that students can bring the answers with them to the exam.\u00ab<\/p>\n<h2>No doubt that it is cheating<\/h2>\n<p>The students at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences that the Danish media <em>Universitetsavisen<\/em>spoke to in the previous cases, suggested that the mistakes were perhaps made on purpose, to boost funding by producing good results. According to Jens Helby, Head of the student organisation \u2018Demokratiske Medicinere\u2019, this is not the case at the Faculty of Health:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThe speculations at Pharma, on whether or not exams are purposefully made easier makes no sense here at Health. These exams aren\u2019t difficult to pass \u2013 in 9th semester you are only tested on something you have been tested on before. But it is of course still unfair that students got through easier,\u00ab Jens Helby says.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbPeople can feel ill treated when they see that the people who are doing really well, are people who just happen to be well-rehearsed in old exam questions.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>ser@adm.ku.dk<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":false,"references":false,"category":false,"theme":false,"number_of_posts":"4","style":"default"}]},"taxonomyData":{"category":[{"term_id":42,"name":"Education","slug":"education","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":42,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":661,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[],"post_format":[],"expression":[{"term_id":15,"name":"News Article","slug":"news_article","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":15,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":11489,"filter":"raw"}],"translation_priority":[]},"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sidste_aars_svar_skrift_0-1-1280x1006.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40048,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24417\/revisions\/40048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}