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I was thinking about this on my way out of the exam…our answer sheets presumably get on a truck or a plane and are shipped to wherever the central grading center is (I want to say Charlotte or maybe Raleigh). What if the plane carrying everyone’s answer sheets crashed and our tests went up down in a fiery inferno? Or what if a proctor accidentally dropped someone’s answer sheet and it never even made it to the grading center, only to be swept up by a janitor? I was half brain dead when we were released and had to wait in a ridiculous line just to get my personal belongings so these were the thoughts going through my mind at the end of the day.
 
I swear someone made this same post last year (or a very similar one)…
 
I think about this all the time. If tens of thousands of papers were lost, that’d be seriously screwed. There were almost ten thousand candidates in my test centre alone.
 
They should scan locally as a backup (not read the scantron; make a scan of the scantron). A $100 printer/scanner could do the job in a few hours.
Place the encrypted file(s) on 2 keys, and send via two couriers that don’t use the same planes.
Or, just compress and upload to secure cloud.
 
There’s various scenarios that could make it problematic. What if some of the CFA volunteers decided to take one of the scantrons and rip it up because some candidate was being a douche? It’s possible.
 
biuku wrote:
They should scan locally as a backup (not read the scantron; make a scan of the scantron). A $100 printer/scanner could do the job in a few hours.
Place the encrypted file(s) on 2 keys, and send via two couriers that don’t use the same planes.
Or, just compress and upload to secure cloud.
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The answer sheets are specially designed for scantrons in their colors, density etc. A scanned copy will not do the job.
Still, a backup is an insurance.
 
If anything happen like plane crash with exam material, the examination should be repeated under same conditions….
 
One of the myths circulating around cfa candidates in my country is if we decide to keep doing the test under unexpected distraction/hardship during the test, we will be given a free pass.
so maybe if the answer is somehow lost and cfa institute asking for a re test, those who do the test will be given a pass?
if thats the case, i hope they lose my answer sheet. Lol
 
In case they lose answer sheet then probably attendance sheet will also be lost unless both take different route. Then there’s no way to know who attended the exam.
re-test is the most plausible approach imo
 
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