lmao you do know that the most important tests premeds/med students/doctors take like the mcat and step are video recorded and basically impossible to cheat on, right? Even at my med school, all of our exams are recorded in person or on our laptop cameras. Med schools take cheating very seriously- if you’re ever caught as a premed or med student, you can essentially kiss your chances of being a doctor goodbye.
As a former premed, I’ll tell you that the people that I did see cheat were too fucking stupid to get into med school in the first place. If you honestly think most doctors are breezing their way through weekly exams, step, and rotations, you probably never got into med school or know anyone who has.
As someone who went both to dental and med school (long fucked up story) I can tell you that cheating is rampant. It’s not cheating like having written answers on your fingernail. There are social and political cliques that passing around old exams within the inner circles.
Most professors recycle their exams year to year. It’s shameful.
Upperclassmen will pass down old answers. Professors will privately give out answers test answers to help select students (particularly crying pretty girls.)
The reason why board exams causes med/dental students to panic is bc you CANT cheat on them. Old board exam questions are hard to come by and not very helpful bc vast majority of those exams are written fresh each year by a committee.
Exams written by a single professor are often (almost always in my experience) set up FOR cheating. Playing the political game. To be doctors have patients lives in their hands. It’s sick
It sounds like you went to shit school then, no offense. My med school actively works to make sure that old test questions can't get circulated. All of our exams are online, monitored, and we get 1 piece of scrap paper that's discarded afterward. Our professors would absolutely get hanged if people found out they were favoring certain students and giving them answers, especially if there's any sort of sexual connotations. There's legit no incentive to cheat because we're P/F. Like I don't think we have students that are SO dumb that they need to cheat to get a fucking 70%.
I've certainly heard of at least one med student who was circulating exams at an overseas school and got expelled. But international med schools are often dogshit anyways with no real standards for their admitted students (literally anyone with a pulse can get in). I'm talking exclusively about US MD schools because I don't know what sort of clown fiestas go on in DO or international schools.
lmao what? You do know that NBME practice exams are old board questions right? Those are pretty standard materials to pass onto underclassmen. No shit there are fresh questions every year, that's how every standardized exam works.
“There's legit no incentive to cheat because we're P/F. “
That’s how every school should be and I was in one of the last hold outs. I said med school for brevity but I went to podiatry school and it was still graded. So was dental school. Was awful.
I’m very jealous of how your med school program was set up.
I crushed my dental boards alongside ecery standardized test I ever took bc of practice exams. The problem in my programs was that they were kept secret and not open to every student. There should be 20 years of old exams for every student to study from imo.
We are in strong agreement here of how it should be. My experience couldn’t have been worse.
lmao you do know that the most important tests premeds/med students/doctors take like the mcat and step are video recorded and basically impossible to cheat on, right? Even at my med school, all of our exams are recorded in person or on our laptop cameras. Med schools take cheating very seriously- if you’re ever caught as a premed or med student, you can essentially kiss your chances of being a doctor goodbye.
As a former premed, I’ll tell you that the people that I did see cheat were too fucking stupid to get into med school in the first place. If you honestly think most doctors are breezing their way through weekly exams, step, and rotations, you probably never got into med school or know anyone who has.
As someone who went both to dental and med school (long fucked up story) I can tell you that cheating is rampant. It’s not cheating like having written answers on your fingernail. There are social and political cliques that passing around old exams within the inner circles.
Most professors recycle their exams year to year. It’s shameful.
Upperclassmen will pass down old answers. Professors will privately give out answers test answers to help select students (particularly crying pretty girls.)
The reason why board exams causes med/dental students to panic is bc you CANT cheat on them. Old board exam questions are hard to come by and not very helpful bc vast majority of those exams are written fresh each year by a committee.
Exams written by a single professor are often (almost always in my experience) set up FOR cheating. Playing the political game. To be doctors have patients lives in their hands. It’s sick
It sounds like you went to shit school then, no offense. My med school actively works to make sure that old test questions can't get circulated. All of our exams are online, monitored, and we get 1 piece of scrap paper that's discarded afterward. Our professors would absolutely get hanged if people found out they were favoring certain students and giving them answers, especially if there's any sort of sexual connotations. There's legit no incentive to cheat because we're P/F. Like I don't think we have students that are SO dumb that they need to cheat to get a fucking 70%.
I've certainly heard of at least one med student who was circulating exams at an overseas school and got expelled. But international med schools are often dogshit anyways with no real standards for their admitted students (literally anyone with a pulse can get in). I'm talking exclusively about US MD schools because I don't know what sort of clown fiestas go on in DO or international schools.
lmao what? You do know that NBME practice exams are old board questions right? Those are pretty standard materials to pass onto underclassmen. No shit there are fresh questions every year, that's how every standardized exam works.
“There's legit no incentive to cheat because we're P/F. “
That’s how every school should be and I was in one of the last hold outs. I said med school for brevity but I went to podiatry school and it was still graded. So was dental school. Was awful.
I’m very jealous of how your med school program was set up.
I crushed my dental boards alongside ecery standardized test I ever took bc of practice exams. The problem in my programs was that they were kept secret and not open to every student. There should be 20 years of old exams for every student to study from imo.
We are in strong agreement here of how it should be. My experience couldn’t have been worse.