Ethical caution

[Shadowless]

Shadowless, to answer your question, I honestly don't remember seeing any actual questions from exams in the feedback threads while I was preparing. I remember being impressed with the way posters walked that thin line -- being helpful, but not breaking the rules. I took my last exam in January (except for the GRE: Psychology in April), so if you can find examples in the threads of exam questions being posted before then, I'll take the rap.

Well I would need to know what tests you have taken to do that.



The instantcert.com site is right there in the Google sponsored links if you search for either "CLEP" or "DSST". It's hard for me to believe that nobody at The College Board or the DANTES program knows about InstantCert.

I am not saying they don't know about it, but are they going to pay the 20 dollars a month to view the flash cards?


That's a separate question, but I have thought about that. I haven't seen any citation of Steve's sources for the flash cards, and I think it would be a good thing if he did cite them. At the same time, I have no reason to believe that they are not his original work. The fact that they cover the same subject matter as the exams is not any sort of ethical violation that I can see. That is the point, after all.

I don't want to point fingers at Steve cause they are great source material. But to say they are his original work?



I agree that it's hard, but I think it's important. If you're saying that providing questions without answers is fair game, I have to disagree. It may be splitting hairs, but it's all a matter of where the information came from. If the IC study cards did indeed come from taking the exams and making physical or mental notes of the questions, then they are a flagrant ehtical violation. I haven't seen any evidence that they were developed in that manner, and my experience with the study cards and the exams makes me quite certain they were not.

I don't think anyone is doing that, no one is saying "this question is on the test!!! study this!" they are giving an idea of what MAY be on the test.

Hope this better explains what I am talking about.