Cheating rife in Polish high school exams
PR dla Zagranicy
John Beauchamp
19.07.2011 12:02
Poland’s Central Examination Committee (CKE) has registered a rash of cheating in this year’s Matura exams, the key hurdle that pupils must clear before starting higher education.
According to the committee, over 750 pupils were caught cheating in this year’s tests. Over half of the culprits fell foul in mathematics.
The unauthorised use of crib sheets was noted both in private and state schools.
Amongst the most heavily penalised regions was the Swietokrzyskie region, where as many as 193 students had their exams annulled. 114 of these instances were in mathematics.
The Central Examination Committee is investigating reasons why such an increase in cheating has taken place this year in mathematics.
It so happened that 21 percent of pupils failed mathematics this year, a poorer result of some seven percent than last year. (nh/jb)
Source: Dziennik Polski/Gazeta Wyborcza