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Turkish student creates custom AI device for cheating university exam, gets arrested
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2024
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Turkish middle school, high school, and university exams are very serious.
Basically everyone takes the same set of long exams (with a few additions you can add to your standard exam sets, for specialized schools) and when the results come out, you are compared to all other students in the nation.
Like, think global leaderboards.
The best universities will outright reject you if your ranking isn't high enough.
It's very intense and cut-throat; so much so that - when I was a young'un growing up in Turkey - I just opted to try my hand at the SATs instead. Ended up going to school abroad.
The SATs were so easy, compared to the exam prep we did in our Turkish classes, it almost felt like a joke. Though, college tuition costs definitely made sure I wasn't the one with the last laugh.
Honestly this just makes me think that schools and universities should be shuffling their staff and teachers to keep one or the other school from becoming "the good one" that becomes a magnet for nepo babies and tomorrow's burnout cases.
That level of direct competition is just gonna lead to people who are NOT able to work cooperatively or really trust anyone.
Plus breaking up the nepo clubs is important for keeping the social ladder at a reasonable angle to climb, college should be everyone's chance to make important connections, not just for the Ivy League alums' kids while everyone else gets told it's about getting the piece of paper and having lots of free pizza while you're doing it.
If it's not universities, they will meet in country clubs and summer parties. No suggestions for how we short-circuit this entire process but something fundamental about how our society works will have to change for all children to have equal or near-equal levels of opportunity
Estate tax reform and/or UBI