Cheating peer??
Hello
I am looking for advice on how to handle a student in our cohort who is likely cheating on their exams. Everyone in our small cohort has noticed a repeating pattern: this student always uses the bathroom during the exam and finishes in record time. For our last exam, she finished a 95-question exam in under 30 minutes. This exam involved complex medical math with many conversions (she did not use a calculator or paper), matching, dropdown boxes, multiple-choice, and SATA questions. This has been ongoing all year, and some students speculate she is using a paid service to override the lockdown browser. I do know some people read fast and are good at taking exams when they know the material.
The other problem is this student's performance in OSCEs and clinicals. They have failed every OSCE and had to retake them. Our last OSCE was on IV meds, and she was given three attempts. There have been multiple absences from labs and clinicals; we have a 10% attendance rate and 2 attempts on osces. We have the same clinical instructor for our labs this year and feel that this person has manipulated the instructor into feeling sorry her. She received the highest mark in clinical dispite having the most absences, not engaging and not having the foggist idea on sterlie techniques or any skills we have learned this year.
A part of me thinks leave it alone she won't be able to fake 3rd and 4th year. But this has been very demoralizing for students who struggle put in the work. Plus if anything is going to be said this last test is the one to mention concerns. The proff is very strict and records our exams over zoom so she can review it, as well as a in person proctor. There was already increase intervention with the proctor including our student advisor coming up checking the bathroom while we were writing.
I am very much the let them make their own bed and lay in it type of person but my big fear is if she F**** up during our next clinical, and there has been blatant favoritism towards this student, is someone else going to get caught in the cross fire from there mistake.