Can you cheat with TestWe?

Our platform is renowned for nearly eliminating cheating efforts. In fact, ensuring the security of a competition, preventing cheating, and thus guaranteeing fairness in exams is a significant part of its purpose. So, can you cheat with TestWe?

Limiting cheating with TestWe

When we discovered that some people were asking the question, « How to cheat with TestWe? » on search engines (especially Google), we were initially surprised. More importantly, we decided to check out the answers. It’s true; we might have learned something new! However, it turned out to be rather disappointing for potential cheaters and reassuring for our team: « You can’t. » There’s even a TikToker claiming to have found a loophole. In short, it’s generating buzz among different student communities.

Proctoring to reduce cheating

Reducing rather than outright banning or making cheating impossible: the distinction is crucial. Unfortunately, there’s always a chance that something might slip through the cracks. But the goal is to minimize fraud as much as possible. Generally, the tools in place make it so difficult for cheaters that they prefer to study rather than waste their brainpower finding ways to bypass the protective measures.

Identification and monitoring

The most important factors in preventing cheating during a remote exam are:

1. Ensuring that the candidate is indeed the person registered. Therefore, the identification method must be hard to bypass.
2. Preventing the candidate from receiving assistance during the exam. This involves two main issues:
   • Accessing third-party information sources via the Internet or documents stored nearby.
   • Being replaced or assisted during the exam (after identification).

TestWe has developed proctoring tools to address these issues, including monitoring the candidate’s environment during the exam. This helps detect any presence and verify that the exam conditions are still being met.

Is in-person testing the ultimate anti-cheating solution?

We won’t go as far as referencing the French classic film « The Under-Gifted Take the Bac, » but still…

« Cheating »: An art form for some students

Cheating techniques exist in exam halls too, even when one (or several) invigilators are present. Remotely, with the help of ProctorWe tools, observation can continue asynchronously, that is, after the exam. In a physical exam setting, there’s no calling on the « VAR, video assistance, » whereas remotely, you can!

Better identification in-person?

If invigilators were trained by border police and, most importantly, had the time, perhaps identification would be flawless. But that’s not the case.

Moreover, recent events have shown that identification fraud can be massive. This was seen across the Channel in England. To address the shortage of nurses, the British government allows equivalences with other countries. To do this, candidates must take a test from the UK Nursing and Midwifery Council… in their home country. It was discovered that at least 700 Nigerian nurses had been replaced by others during the exam. This massive fraud was made possible by the complicity of exam center officials, who turned a blind eye. With a remote solution, such substitutions would have been very difficult to execute.