Nearly 60,000 UNAM applicants must retake entrance exam following AI cheating fiasco

Approximately 58,000 among an initial cohort of more than 158,000 test-takers are expected to qualify to sit a second in‑person exam, which will be held between Aug. 12 and 19.

Last week, protestors rallied outside the largest university in Mexico, chanting, “We demand honesty, not artificial intelligence.” The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) had moved its highly competitive entrance exam online for the first time ever, complete with an AI proctor—and now it seems under that p

National Autonomous University of Mexico says applicants must take test in person after online debacle Mexico’s largest and most prestigious university has announced that about 58,000 students will have to resit their entrance exam after abnormally high test results raised suspicions of widespread cheating. The Nationa

Earlier this summer, nearly 160,000 applicants took the entrance exam for UNAM, Mexico’s largest university. For the first time, they did it completely remotely, using a “lockdown” browser and AI-powered webcam proctoring software, over several weeks from late May through early June. It was a disaster. When exam result

UNAM annulled thousands of tests after results showed an unusually high number of perfect scores, suggesting some students cheated either through using artificial intelligence tools or by obtaining the questions in advance.

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