7. A processor-readable storage medium containing one or more programming instructions for detecting a bad faith essay response, the programming instructions, when executed, causing a processing system to execute steps comprising: receiving a plurality of essay prompts; receiving an essay response associated with a particular essay prompt of the plurality of essay prompts; scoring the essay response associated with the particular essay prompt against each of the plurality of essay prompts to generate plural similarity scores; and determining if the essay response associated with the particular essay prompt is a bad faith essay response based at least in part on determining whether the plural similarity scores indicate the essay response associated with the particular essay prompt is sufficiently dissimilar to each of the plurality of essay prompts.
12. The processor-readable storage medium of claim 7 , wherein the determining whether the plural similarity scores indicate that the essay response associated with the particular essay prompt is sufficiently dissimilar to each of the plurality of essay prompts comprises determining whether the plural similarity scores are below a cutoff value.