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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Deborah Solomon and Oliver Holmes

BIZARRE: Ai cheating leaked papers and marking errors how exam protests went global - What They Never Told You

Crowd in Mumbai waves Indian flags and holds signs celebrating a minister's resignation
Cockroach Janta party supporters in Mumbai, India, celebrate the resignation of the education minister following protests over an exam paper leak that affected millions of students. Photograph: Indranil Aditya/Reuters

Families with teenagers in education know the private, hidden pain of exam season. But this year, what might have been a summer of quiet family anxiety has erupted in several countries into public unrest.

Exam-related turmoil has led to mass student protests in Mexico after nearly 60,000 university applicants were forced to resit tests amid suspected cheating, while Portugal’s disastrous attempt to digitise school exam marking sparked the country’s worst education crisis in decades.

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