Doing it a test or exams is something many people can forget about once it’s over. But 2nd year students in NTU were made to retake the test after the questions were leaked 20 minutes before the test started.
NTU School of Social Sciences apologised that 218 students had to retake their Psychology test.
An email written was also published regarding the leak.
Here is the email:
H P2200 students were forced to take a finals retest and bear the brunt of the school’s mistake
Context, HP2200 is biological psychology, a core for all psychology students. It is known to be one of the most content-heavy topics in psychology. So many issues occurred during the course, from weekly quizzes being postponed because of NTULearn not being properly coordinated where students could not access or see all the questions, to students having to do finals during teaching week 13 where submissions and many other closes booked tests, presentations and reports are due just because the school did not register the course finals and not book a venue.
So what happened: The test was scheduled to be a close book test on a 930 of the Monday this week.
To accommodate covid positive students, an online file of the finals was posted on NTULearn which was password protected. However, when the side page to access the password-protected finals paper was posted, notifications were released on the new NTULearn ultra which enabled students to bypass the password protection when clicking it. This was released at 9.11 ish. ‘ence, some students circulated and viewed the finals paper prior to entering the finals venues.
The professor was informed about the leak but he decided to continue with the test. A whistleblower with screenshots of the finals leak then informed the school. The school then decided to inform the psychology cohort that there will be a reschedule of the new finals, amidst other submissions with 4 days of hindsight. A huge slap in the face for students who did nothing wrong and a huge inconvenience and strain to everyone’s overall studying schedule, with the actual finals season coming up.
It’s not the professor’s fault, but the students should not bear the brunt of the mistake by the school. Pls let the whole of Singapore know this injustice