Ugly side of Class X and Class XII exams : Widespread cheating
- The Sangai Express Editorial :: March 07 2016 -
The ugly side of the Class X and Class XII examinations. The widespread copying inside the examination halls, that is.
A clear reflection that some students will not hesitate to use any means to get through the exam and this is what is hard to digest.
For long cheating in exams had been the bane but things seemed to have started looking up after some tough actions were taken up by social vigilantes but if the reports furnished by some student organisations are anything to go by then there are still miles to walk.
Things were bad, say two or three decades back, when every examination centres looked like carnival centres, with helpers running around passing notes through the windows.
This is apart from the books which candidates would have smuggled into the examination halls.
It was to deal with this nuisance that some vigilantes started cracking down hard on use of unfair means in the examination halls and in the first few years of the campaign coming into force, the pass percentage in the HSLC and HSSLC exams was extremely low.
A testimony that numerous students used to rely on unfair means to make it through these examinations.
However things seemed to improve after some time, and cheating in examinations seemed to have decline.
However if what some student organisations have had to say is any indication, then there are still some students who continue to rely on cheating to get through and this is what is extremely disappointing.
The students are chiefly responsible, but it may be wrong to put the entire responsibility on their shoulders.
Why do students cheat ? Is it the compelling pressure to pass ?
Were they not taught enough in the by gone academic year ?
Are the parents and elders covertly encouraging them to use any means to get through ?
Is it a case of teachers failing to teach them properly inside the classrooms ?
How about the number of pressure groups ? Did their course of action disturb the academic pursuit of the students ?
Or has society as a whole failed to pass on the moral lesson to the young students that cheating is wrong ?
More than likely that it is a combination of all the questions which have been raised here and this is where everyone should come to the point that the young students are products of society and if they start cheating at such a tender age, then it does not say something healthy about the future.
And the future here is not about individual future, but the collective future.
So even as the young students continue with their exams the time is also right for all adults to search their hearts.
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