India’s Bihar State Embroiled in Academic Cheating Scandal

Raymond Scott:

have ordered fourteen students who scored top marks on their final exams in India’s Bihar state to be retested amid concerns of cheating.
The decision to retest the students was made after one of the students told a local media outlet that political science was about cooking. Another student, who scored high marks on her science examination, said the most reactive element in the periodic table was aluminum.