When Dutch pupils end High school, they always have to take national exams that are the same for everyone who did High school at the same level. This year our country has seen the biggest case of exam theft that ever happened and it was reveiled only days before the final exam, French, was to be made by the students.

When there was only one exam left to do, French for VWO (a certain level at which you can finish High school here), someone put that exam online with the intention to expose the fact that secure files are leaked more and more often. As a result the exam was postponed for one day, so they could print a new exam for all the students. Of course the government and police started an investigation, after which it became clear that more exams had been stolen and students had seen it before they had to take it. The number slowly increased from 1 to 5, 11, 24 and now they've revealed at least 27 of all the exams were stolen and sold to students across the country. The students of the school at which the exams were stolen have to retake all their exams, but they are still discussing what they should do with the exams in the rest of the country now that it appears they were more widespread than they thought.

They gave the students a chance to confess they had seen an exam, but not many did. People who get caught will be prosecuted and their diploma will be taken away.

Can't wait to find out what'll happen tbh, this is a really big issue over here right now. Would you check out an exam before you have to take it if you know it could get you in legal trouble? Would you confess to having an exam before you took it?

the backup test they used for french was a lot easier than the leaked one though