Cheated on the college exam - reads to doctors and lawyers

During the spring college exams, the Swedish Crime Authority conducted a strike against a network that helps test participants cheat for a top result. In connection with the strike, not only were the men behind the cheating, but also cheating test writers around the country.

In total, 23 people are charged with false declaration, ie for cheating on the college exam.

But there are those who do not get stuck.

When SVT unveiled the college cheating in 2016, the audit showed that it was about at least 100 participants who bought the cheat - per college test. People who achieved high results on the test were mapped out through their activity in social media and connections to the cheating networks.

In addition, previous test results and high school grades were checked. Through the survey, together with information from the network's own documentation, several of the cheaters could be located.

A woman with whom SVT was in contact had the closest top result - 1.85 - on the test, even though she does not speak Swedish. She refused to cheat.

- I used to work very hard, especially Swedish as other languages.

The woman's results are still valid.

Assignment review has now taken part of a kind of customer register that the police found when they struck one of the networks. It's about lists of hundreds of names that show who bought the cheat, when and how much they paid.

By comparing those lists, and the names from the previous review, with student registers at universities and colleges, the image of cheaters has now taken up place in university and college education around the country.

They are located in Umeå, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Lund, Uppsala, Östersund and Örebro.

And they plug into doctors, lawyers, psychologists, dentists, system scientists, economists, socio-economists and civil engineers.

- I think it's frustrating. You feel a certain degree of anger that it is so. This means that there are people in our education that should not go there, and that there are people who got their dreams shattered when they did not enter their dream education, says Claes Hättestrand, Pro-Rector of Stockholm University.

How many cheaters there are in education programs around the country know neither the colleges nor the University and University Council, UHR, which is responsible for the university exam. But when it comes to the customer register found at one of the cheating networks, Karin Röding, director general at UHR, says that the people who are there cannot feel secure in the future.

- I don't think so at all. The prosecutor has told me that she will chase down every person who is in that register.

But despite the cheating being revealed as early as 2016, it has not been possible to come up with a measure that completely prevents organized sales of top results. The Swedish Crime Authority's strike last spring showed that the cheating is still working. And it is not possible to guarantee that all cheaters are stopped.

- No, we can't do that. We do not have the right to visit the body who performs the test, says Karin Röding.

Assignment review report The university test cheat will be sent on SVT1 on Wednesday, November 21, 2018. The report can be seen on SVT Play.