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Hacking high school exams and foiling them with statistics (hackaday.com)
6 points by gridscomputing on June 6, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Blogspam, go here for the original.

http://deedy.quora.com/Hacking-into-the-Indian-Education-Sys...

That has all the real graphs. They make it really obvious that the test must not be scored on a continuous spectrum, but is chunked into increments of more than one point. But there are also some curious bimodal effects that could indicate tampering at significant levels like 90%.


Doesn't the pattern depend on the value of each question? For example, if you have a score out of 100, but all questions are worth 4 marks, then you'd end up with a series of grades that are multiples of 4 (assuming no part marks).


That alone can't explain how 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, and 100 were all achievable scores. Also each of the numbers from 0 to 32.




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