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German Teenager Gets Job Offer By Trying To Use FOI For His Exam Papers

Posted by samzenpus on from the looking-for-an-edge dept.

Bruce66423 writes "A German schoolboy has taken exam preparation to ingenious new levels by making a freedom of information request to see the questions in his forthcoming Abitur tests, the equivalent of A-levels in the UK." and SATS in the USA. The media attention from his FoI request has already garnered him an offer of work from another transparency-related organization, the research website Correctiv. “If I have time before university starts I’ll definitely do it,” he said.

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  1. No Action Needed. by LRayZor · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would have replied to the request that he would be provided with the information... and stated the date and time of his exam :)

  2. If this happened in the US: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Had this taken place in the US at a USian university he would have found a reason to arrest him under the USSR^h^hA Patriot Act and/or permanently expelled from uni with no job prospects other than "Do you want fries with that" if he is lucky enough to get one at all. Thank you Shrub and the Gas and Oil Party for being the paranoid nutcases that put yet another nail in the freedom in the US.