SocietyMexico’s top university orders 58,000 students to retake entrance exam amid cheating suspicions

Mexico’s National Autonomous University has ordered around 58,000 students to sit its entrance exam again. The decision followed unusually high scores that prompted suspicions of widespread cheating. The university said its first fully remote online examination had descended into a debacle, with thousands of results annulled. The replacement test will be held in person rather than online.

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