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School exam cheats are utterly devious when it comes to finding new ways to make the grades in examinations.
- Gulf News
- Published: 23:58 January 6, 2009
School exam cheats are utterly devious when it comes to finding new ways to make the grades in examinations.
On Tuesday, Gulf News reported pupils have started using wireless micro earphones, hiding the phones under their clothes while their friends dictate the correct answers.
Other methods employed to cheat are the writing of answers on their desks beforehand, and the writing by female students of the answers on their thighs, then covered by abayas, or writing on finders and hands.
As long as there are examinations, there will be cheats. Maybe school authorities should offer courses in cheating, then these not-so-smart students might excel and get top honours. We're jesting, of course.
Sterile examination rooms combined with wireless-signal jammers must be considered. The teachers need to learn from the lessons of cheats.
Your comments
I just wanted to know, who did not cheat in their exams during their time in school? In my opinion even the more studious students have cheated in their school days, I am certainly sure. My suggestion is, as students write in their desks before exams, schools should send them to a different schools to write their exams. This way these students will not be able to cheat. I think this will work.
From A Reader
Dubai,UAE
Posted: January 07, 2009, 14:31
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