VietNamNet Bridge – Students of the modern times have 1001 ways of cheating at exams. Especially, advanced technologies prove to be very useful to cheaters.

 
If accessing to some student’s websites, one can easily find the entries where students share the experiences to cheat during exams. Especially, students clearly point out which technologies should be used when writing essays, and which should be used when doing multiple choice tests. The experiences prove to be very useful to students, because nearly all students nowadays, both good and bad students, try to cheat at exams.

 

On an education forum, a student even wrote that those students, who do not cheat at exams, would be considered “mad” or “foolish”.

 

Copying technologies introduced on Internet

 

The lessons on cheating at exams include the tricks from the ancient times to the present. Nickname “tongtulenh “,wrote on a forum that as for writing tests, where students are asked to write essays, students always try to copy the whole paragraphs from textbooks. However, he said that this “traditional way of cheating” proves to become out of date, and this should not be seen as a good solution because the copying will be easily discovered.

 

A 12th grader told reporters that the most popular way of cheating at exams is using “phao”, which means “lifebuoy” in English – the small pieces of paper, where students write down the information necessary for the tests and will be used during the exams. Besides, female students can write down lessons on their thigh. The lessons can be covered by long dresses and will be uncovered when students draw the dresses upwards.

 

However, it seems that students nowadays prefer hi-tech cheating technologies to the traditional ones.

 

A student from the Hanoi University said he can cheat at exams with the support of mobile phones using bluetooth technology. With two mobile phones with bluetooth technology and high quality cameras, students can read out exam questions to others outside the exam room via the phones, and then the others show the answers, also via the phones.

 

Also, he said that 3G mobile phones are also very useful for students when doing multiple choice tests, because it is easy to access Internet with the technology

 

The owner of a photocopy shop on Ta Quang Buu street in Hanoi, said that students just need a USB Flash recorder to cheat during exams. They need to record the answers and then listen to the answers again in the exam rooms.

 

Those, who do not cheat, are foolish?

 

When asked why students always try to cheat during exams, students say that they know that copying is a bad thing, but they have no other choice. They have too many lessons to learn, and they have so many tests and exams that they have not enough time to prepare for them.

 

Specifically, 12th graders prove to be the students  who cheat at exams most regularly, as they have to prepare for the university entrance exams which come at the end of the academic years. They have to focus on learning three exam subjects, and they only have enough time to cast a cursory glance at other subjects.

 

Q.N, a student of the Tran Phu High School in Hanoi, affirmed that “she is gathering strength to learn three exam subjects, while she just spends a little time on other subjects, because she just needs to get five marks for the other subjects. Therefore, the only choice for her is to cheat at exams.”

 

N.H, a student of the Vietnam-Germany School said that she has to cheat at exams, because she needs to obtain as many marks as possible.

 

Meanwhile, in the eyes of teachers, students are too lazy to learn lessons, and cheating is the way lazy students always follow to obtain good marks while no need to work hard.

 

Source: VnMedia