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Comment by throw9away6 | Hacker News Reader

People who can afford starlink have a huge advantage

Starlink is not available in Algeria: https://www.starlink.com/map

Even if it was available, it would have to operate with permission of the ARPCE. So it could be shut down along with all the other internet providers.

https://www.arpce.dz/fr/service/fai

Do people who can bring a satellite dish with them to the exam rooms really have to be worried overall about being school performance, one way or another?

I'm unclear how this affects cheating. Are the exams not done in paper in large rooms with an invigilator?

In certain parts of the world you can bribe the invigilators.

How does this relate to internet access?

You bribe them to not notice the phone you are using to help you answer exam questions. Without internet access that's more difficult.

it's about minimising damage in the case of questions leak. The exam paper is the same across the country, so if a paper is leaked from one school, the internet would quickly make the problem nation wide.

Excuse yourself to go to the restroom, use phone hidden there the day before. That's a viable method of cheating in many countries, I guess cutting internet access is a way to prevent this and similar exploits.

I suspect all of Wikipedia's text fits comfortably on a typical user's phone. How does not having Internet access during the exam stop people from accessing data they've already gathered from when they did?

Who invigilates the invigilators?

Imagine what's the punishment for a cheater on a country that bans internet on this...

You won't get punished if you don't get caught, and you probably won't get caught

Yeah, because nobody would notice when set that up outside the exam hall.

You'd do better with an ordinary satphone except you'd stick out like a sore thumb in the exam.

The satellite dish is very discreet.

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