TikTok users spread Sweden’s ninth-grade Swedish exam

Sweden’s oral national Swedish exam for ninth-graders has been shared on TikTok, where posts included test texts and questions and were viewed about 200,000 times, SVT reports.

The exam is being held from November 2 to December 4. SVT found that discussion of its contents began on TikTok on November 9, with images of the test appearing the following day. On November 11, an anonymous account posted what it claimed was the entire exam. The account published nine posts before it was taken down around midday on Friday.

Comments included messages of thanks and hopes for a top grade. Other users expressed frustration because they had already taken the test. Anna-Karin Persson, head of the national exams section at the Swedish National Agency for Education, called the unauthorised spread of exam material on social media serious.

Persson said the oral exam has two parts and is designed to allow students to be assessed fairly even if they have seen the questions in advance. The focus is on communication skills, she said, so the exam can still be used to assess students’ knowledge.

TikTok told SVT it had been in contact with the agency and removed the material after being alerted to it.

The Swedish exam for the spring term of 2025 also appeared on TikTok. Messages seeking access to that test through direct messages were still online a year and a half later, SVT reported. A government-backed project to digitise national exams was scrapped after technical problems and login difficulties in autumn 2025.