Brown University professor Roberto Serrano allowed the students to take their midterm exam at home, as the shock of the December 13 shooting at the university was still there. Serrano has been teaching at the Ivy League University for 34 years and it was for the first time that he allowed his students of mathematical economics to write their test at home, considering their mental health, the shock and the trauma they underwent.
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Of the 86 students who took the March 5 exam, 40 scored a perfect 100. The class average was 96 whereas in previous years, the average had ranged between 65 and 80 though this time the exam was harder.
Serrano said as he was going through the papers, he realized that something very unusual happened. “Some answers contained unusual passages that coincided with results obtained after running the questions through ChatGPT,” Serrano said but he did not dismiss the midterms and said the final exam would be in-person.
