The error is said to have been discovered by an employee in the municipality, after the exam had been completed at ten different secondary schools in Drammen municipality. In total, this applies to 400 students, writes Anne Torbjørg Raastad-Hoel, subject advisor school in Drammen municipality, in an email to news. news has contacted several of the principals in the municipality, who do not wish to comment on the matter. – The state administrator was informed immediately when the error was discovered. In dialogue with the state administrator, it has not been relevant to cancel the exam, says Raastad-Hoel. She says that students must only have access to websites that are approved to be used during the exam, and they are therefore placed in a special user group in connection with the completion of the exam. The pupils who had English exams this year must have been placed in the wrong user group, and therefore had access to the internet. – An oral communication failure before the exam was the cause of the error, she says. Fear of cheating news also gets confirmation that this applies to all secondary schools in Drammen municipality. According to the plan, the network was to be switched off so that pupils did not have access to online aids. In the past year, there have also been fears that students may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in their answers. The state administrator in Oslo and Viken must have been immediately informed that the students who took the exam that day had access to the internet, says Drammen municipality. The students who took the exam the following day should not have had access to the internet. Now their exam can be cancelled. – What can happen is that the exam grades are cancelled. And that the students receive their standing grade in English as a counting grade for admission to upper secondary school, says Grethe Hovde Parr, department director at the State Administrator in Oslo and Viken to Aftenposten. Grethe Hovde Parr, department director at the State Administrator in Oslo and Viken says that the exam grades may be cancelled. Photo: Berit Roald / NTB Published 27.06.2024, at 14.12 Updated 27.06.2024, at 15.25
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