Cambodian authorities expressed alarm over the significant increase of cheating incidents among students, who used cellphones to share answers during national examinations.
According to reports, hundreds of students were caught talking to friends or relatives over their cellphones to ask for answers in the exams. Some students even bribed their professors to allow them to browse their “smuggled” notes for answers.
Initial investigations also showed that teachers and their cohorts have masterminded the massive cheating incident, even selling answers to the national exams for $30 in advance to avoid suspicion of other school officials.
The report also told that teachers involved with the shenanigan would often turn a blind eye to students who were openly talking to their relatives, and kept inspectors out of the rooms.
The examination result will be announced on August 20, with some 100, 000 students eager to learn if they passed.
Authorities only learned about the cheating incidents after several students (who did not cheat) blurted to school administrators about how their classmates pass on the answers to other students.
“It was hard to copy all the correct answers with just one sheet of paper. So, many of the students just took pictures with their camera phones and pass on the image to other students via mobile Internet,” a female student said.
After the incident, authorities are now studying the possibility of declaring the exam results as null and void.
For his part, Mak Vann, a senior official at the Cambodia Ministry of Education blamed the mass killing of educated people during the 1970s, when the Khmer Rouge has executive all the educated and intellectual people of Cambodia leaving only peasants who have no proper training to help restore the country’s educational system.
He said that the habit of cheating during the years in school is being carried out by students when they work, noting the low-ranking of Cambodia in the fight against graft and corruption.
Vann also recognized that there is still a lot of work to be done before the country can fully restore its education system, saying that it could take years or even decades if the government will fail to act decisively today.
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:D I’m laughing for reading this because this is really true.
I’m a student and I also tried to cheat once during our exam using my cellphone but I never wish to try it again because cheating isn’t really good.