Paper ID: 2402.14881

A Study on the Vulnerability of Test Questions against ChatGPT-based Cheating

Shanker Ram, Chen Qian

ChatGPT is a chatbot that can answer text prompts fairly accurately, even performing very well on postgraduate-level questions. Many educators have found that their take-home or remote tests and exams are vulnerable to ChatGPT-based cheating because students may directly use answers provided by tools like ChatGPT. In this paper, we try to provide an answer to an important question: how well ChatGPT can answer test questions and how we can detect whether the questions of a test can be answered correctly by ChatGPT. We generated ChatGPT's responses to the MedMCQA dataset, which contains over 10,000 medical school entrance exam questions. We analyzed the responses and uncovered certain types of questions ChatGPT answers more inaccurately than others. In addition, we have created a basic natural language processing model to single out the most vulnerable questions to ChatGPT in a collection of questions or a sample exam. Our tool can be used by test-makers to avoid ChatGPT-vulnerable test questions.

Submitted: Feb 21, 2024