Test creator Cito has alerted secondary schools that students may be committing fraud in listening and viewing exams. According to Cito, answers from several exams this year are being shared via Telegram.
The listening and viewing exams are being administered in these weeks. Cito offers advice on when schools can best administer them, but there is no centrally agreed-upon time.
Cito creates these exams for English, German, French, Dutch, and Spanish. It is unclear how the answers were leaked, and Cito has filed a report.
The Arnhem-based test maker does not know how many students have obtained the answers via Telegram, but advises schools to use exams from previous years. “This reduces the chance of students having prior knowledge,” a spokesperson told RTV Utrecht.
The spokesperson could not specify which exams had their answers leaked. Various schools have informed Cito that they do not recognize the stories about the spread of the exams.
Nonetheless, the test maker is monitoring the situation, and all schools using Cito’s listening and viewing exams are advised to be extra vigilant. A teacher told RTV Utrecht that her school is considering the possibility that students already know this year’s exam answers due to Telegram.
For example, an English teacher at the school is using a listening exam from last year to prevent student fraud. Two years ago, the test maker also warned that exams were being distributed via TikTok.
On the social medium, answers to the English listening exam for VWO 6 were offered for 5 euros.
Source: NOS