"Only Those Who Studied Are Fools"... AI 'Click' Leads to Mass Perfect Scores

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Recently, at a university in Seoul, over 80 percent of students received an A grade. This happened after the professor allowed the use of AI during the exam. This is why some are saying that only those who actually studied ended up looking like fools.

Reporter Jo Yoon-ha has the story.

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This is a three-credit elective course at Yonsei University that teaches data analysis and application methods.

With over 500 students enrolled, the class, the midterm, and the recently held final exam were all conducted online.

The exam allowed the use of AI, but strictly prohibited the so-called copy-and-paste practice of using AI-generated answers directly.

The intention was for students to restructure the AI's responses.

What were the results of the exam?

In both the midterm and final exams, one in three students scored 390 points or higher out of a perfect score of 400.

The percentage of students who received an A grade reached 84 percent of the total.

One student confessed to our reporters, "Many students just copied and pasted, but they weren't caught," adding that they themselves "received a high score without studying."

Our reporting team, who had never taken the course, tried solving the problems.

Since the exam prohibits direct copying of text, we captured the exam questions as image files and asked an AI to solve them.

The answers were generated in less than a minute, and they were 95 percent consistent with the official answer key.

On the course evaluation bulletin board, students left comments such as, "Grades are given based on who is best at 'clicking' AI," and "It makes fools out of those who actually studied."

[Kim Ja-mee / Professor at Korea University Graduate School of Education (Author of University AI Usage Guidelines): Instructors themselves need to try creating answer keys using generative AI. If they require students to include specific content learned in class, and mandate that these elements must be included even when using generative AI...]

The university stated that in the future, it will strengthen the ability to distinguish student performance by increasing the number of application and analysis-based questions, making it difficult to achieve a perfect score using only AI.

Reported by Choi Ho-jun | Video edited by Kim Ho-jin
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