Education is important but the annual exam for high school always have been held but the bad smell of irregularities, cheating, corruption always appeared during the day of exam while students paid some cash to exam proctors and controllers to allow them for cheating, copying and having answered checked by other students.
That is not new for me, I got used to hear and see it every year. One day before the exam day, I rode past the high schools in Phnom Penh, I saw many students gathered at the bookstores and kiosks to buy answer sheets that they expected to be able to copy from it. The copy of answer sheets had been smaller for easily concealing under their clothes and somewhere.
On the exam day, there were police and military police being deployed around building schools in order to make order and protect the students’ friends or relatives from lobbing answer sheets into the classroom.
Even though, the collection of money during the exam from students has become a usual habit and. All of these are the starting point of corruption that is teaching next generation to follow suit. How to clean up the irregularities and cheating during exam day?
Education system in Cambodia is still weaker than other countries in ASEAN. Government have to take into consideration on education development, education reform, education quality and so on.
Rumor said, it is very easy cheating during the exam. Once the exam paper released, the controller can call and let the outside world know the exam questions and then they can manage to take in the answer very smart which i don’t know how. And some student in pp said that it was very easy putting some money in the pocket so they can copy copy…those are smart boys & girls.
No, they’re not smart boys and girls. If they are they would study and pass the exam. This is horrible for the country, when they go into the workforce, all their solution would consist of bribing people….
Well, i still believe they are smart because no one can make them fear or afraid. J/K