WHEN the National Examinations Council released the results of its June/July 2019 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination, many missed the big story of the spike in the recorded incidents o...
WHEN the National Examinations Council released the results of its June/July 2019 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination, many missed the big story of the spike in the recorded incidents of cheating. Of the total 1,151,016 candidates who sat the tests nationwide, 40,630 or 3.53 per cent were involved in malpractices, representing over 50 per cent increase on the number caught cheating last year, said NECO’s Acting Registrar, Abubakar Gana.
A month earlier, results of the West African School Certificate Examinations revealed even more troubling figures that should stir the national conscience: fully 180,205 candidates, representing 11.33 per cent of the total number of the 1,590,173 candidates that sat its May/June 2019 SSSCE examinations, had their results withheld for involvement in various forms of malpractices.
A study summarised cheating to include collusion among students and between them and officials as well as impersonation and copying. But Nigerian cheats are brazen and ever more ingenious. The breakdown of moral values in the society and the excessive value placed on academic certificates as the sole yardstick for measuring qualification have seen the increasing involvement of parents and guardians in cheating.
Dealing with the problem should be a national emergency. In response to sophisticated cheating schemes in their countries, India, China and Singapore opt for strong laws and enforcement with the deployment of cutting-edge technology as the lodestone. India resorts to intrusive frisking of candidates, reported The Guardian of London, while China and Singapore field drones and other specialised electronic surveillance devices around test centres.
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