The International Baccalaureate Organisation has confirmed that some students sitting this year’s IB assessments appear to have engaged in online “time zone cheating”, revealing exam questions on social media before other students sat the same papers in later time zones.

That’s caused outrage in Hong Kong where more than 2,000 students usually sit IB exams every year, with some fearing their results will suffer if such cheating helps those students get high marks and pushes up the threshold needed for good grades.

So what’s the solution? Should this year’s IB exams be cancelled, as an online petition has suggested? Is a different exam paper needed for every time zone? And how much more difficult has Generative AI made it to catch other forms of cheating, especially on courses which use take-home assessments?

In the last part of the programme, we look into the government’s plan to bring forward the pre-registration hours for public dental clinics.


9:05am-9:45am: IB exam "time zone cheating"

9:05am-9:45am: Edward Law, Co-Founder and Director of Hong Kong Excel Group IB specialist

9:05am-9:45am: Dr. Max Diaz, Teaching Fellow and Educational Technology Researcher, Department of English and Communication, Faculty of Humanities, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

9:30am-9:45am: Mervyn Cheung, Chairman, Hong Kong Education Policy Concern Organisation


9:45am-10:00am: Longer pre-registration hours for public dental clinics

9:45am-10:00am: Tim Pang, Community Organiser, The Society for Community Organisation (SoCo)