I just finished writing an exam for my stats class for while I am gone. This involves one, 50-point in-class exam, and four separate versions of a take-home exam (I instituted that a couple years ago after I had two guys who were "buddies" take the class and I found that they got suspiciously similar wrong answers to many of the questions). And (ahem) UNLIKE the stats prof I had when I was a grad student, I go through all of the calculations BEFORE giving the exam to the students (or sending it to the printer even), to make sure the numbers work and don't give bad unexpected results.
("If you can't be a good example, you can at least be a terrible warning." I learned a lot of What Not To Do from that guy's class.)
I feel like I should now be staggering down the hall, my arms stiff out in front of me, moaning, "Bra-a-a-a-ins! Bra-a-a-a-a-i-i-ns!"
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One thing that I've done is copy the exam on different colors of paper. I'll tell the students to write on their answer sheet in large letters the color of the exam. Everyone assumes that there are different versions, and if anyone says that there aren't, I know that that person has been looking at another person's exam. It only works for an in-class, but it does make me feel like there's a little more security when I have to give everyone an identical exam.
I salute you for making the four different versions. The most I've made was two, and I was ready to go in search of brains then.
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