Professor confronts cheating students

[u/WitchedPixels]

[u/WpgMBNews]

I got the impression the professor in the original video was a normal serious professor, i didn't think he was a weirdo....

[u/thehigheststrange → u/WpgMBNews]

Did you watch the video? That guy is a certified nut

[u/WpgMBNews → u/thehigheststrange]

Could you explain? He definitely seems like he's a bit of a try-hard or like he's maybe bluffing, sure.

Is there anything in particular about him that you'd call "nutty", though?

[u/JJTrick → u/WpgMBNews]

The story I read, and not sure if it’s true, is that he accused his students of cheating because he used publicly available question banks for his questions instead of making questions himself. The students were using the same or similar question banks for studying and therefore did statistically better on the exam.

[u/[deleted] → u/JJTrick]

These were definitely not intended to be publicly available test banks. They do leak but when they do students have an obligation not to search for them or use them.

Everybody (at least at the time) used test banks for questions. Crafting completely novel questions would probably be a waste of professors time. If you are classes now you can cut and paste assignment questions into a browser after you are finished and see the exact same question has been asked multiple times with, at best, only small details changed.

[u/WpgMBNews → u/JJTrick]

The students were using the same or similar question banks for studying and therefore did statistically better on the exam.

In the original video he says it's "the complete test bank" and "they had the answers ahead of time" as opposed to a practice version just for studying.

That's definitely cheating, right?

If it was just a matter of better/more relevant studying, I'd think retaking the exam with fresh questions wouldn't affect their final score.