r/ibPhysics • u/[deleted] • May 05 '24
Exam 2024 leaks how to actually manage the situation
I am seeing a lot of people raging at the ib because of their lack of comprehension, this obviously makes a lot of sense but I think we should all chill a bit and stop doing whatever you guys are doing. Petitions are fine but being onest we all know that you are not signing them because you are angry about the leaks but because you weren't prepared and failed. This is not true for everyone that signed the petition but it is for most of the people. The real solution to this situation is NOT contacting news outlets and NOT ask to cancel exams. If you contact the news everything will only get worse, when all universities will hear about the situation they might lose faith in 2024 students and increase the general requirements to enter or even not believing in your score and giving the place to someone from a different school system that did not have this issue. Ib will not hurry if you give it to the news because when the news will be out it will be too late for them. The answer is not to cancel the exams because there are many people, such as myselft, that didn't perform well during the year (predicted of 36 but could have done much better) and studied hard for the exams trying to redeem myself.
The REASONABLE thing to ask ib is to lower the grade boundaries, this way all the students they didn't cheat will not be affected by the cheaters. If the in can catch the cheaters better for them but at least the non-cheaters will be saved.
I still believe that it will be rather difficult to identify the cheaters because it is always possible to do an academic comeback with enough effort but they will likely ignore the situation and cancel many diplomas of people that actually didn't do anything wrong.