28th May 2016.
Bittu - the Cheat Code in Exams ... and Girls Do Better Than Boys !!
Posted on the 01 June 2016 by Sampathkumar Sampath
Dan Ariel’s
book is titled :The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie To Everyone — Especially Ourselves. He
talks about how society's troubles aren't always caused by the really bad
apples; they're caused by the scores of slightly rotting apples who are
cheating just a little bit.
Central
Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has announced the results of class X
examinations 2016 on its website. The total pass percentage stands at 96.21 per
cent, but it has fallen compared to the previous year in which 97.32 per cent
students passed the examinations.Thiruvananthapuram city, the capital of
Kerala, has the highest pass percentage at 99.87 per cent followed by Chennai
region which had a pass percentage of 99.69 percent.
Girls scored higher with an average score of 96.36 per cent while
boys averaged 96.11 per cent. Generally, in all such examinations, Girl
students get higher % of marks and distinctions. This time, of the 1,68,541 students who
scored a full CGPA of 10 points, 85,316 were male and 83,225 were female
students.
The
system of education is pretty complex; the school system has an array of
differently structured systems. For some
children of the city, education starts at age 3, from when on parents goad them
to tough levels, demanding them to do whatever they were unable to do, putting
them to grind by enlisting them in too
many courses, tuitions, and extra-curricular activities. Now a days, it is becoming increasingly
difficult to find normal children – children are not allowed to play – but
watch lot of TV programmes and attend too many classes. For the empty prattle, vanity and boasting of parents – children suffer.
Moving
slightly away, cheating in exams has been in vogue – it is a malaise in the
Education system. Though it is prevalent
across globe, some places it is really bad.
Sometime back, in Bihar a photo of parents risking fall of 20ft and
more, trying to help the kids inside cheat on their high school exams by
throwing them notes through the windows went viral. One leading daily exclaimed
screamed ‘in Bihar, this is called reaching Greater heights’ and the photo had
its reverberation globally appearing in Telegraph UK and other papers too.One
of the big misconceptions, however, is that it is only these struggling
students who cheat, when in fact studies show that high-achieving students
cheat almost as much as other students.
March
/ April makes parents take leave, spend time with their children, providing all
the comfort and care in ensuring their preparation for examinations – end May,
June is the anxious time for parents awaiting results. It is peer pressure for the students and for
the parents (not all suffer it !!)
In examinations, dishonest attempts are not new and that includes
impersonation. From famed ‘bits’ to
chasing and changing papers, to impersonation – all place such errant students
above those who are by nature intelligent and had worked hard !!
The Kamal Prabhu Prakashraj starrer Vasool Raja MBBS was a
hilarious comedy. Rajaraman, a small
time don gains admission in Medical college by forcing Dr Margabandhu [Crazy
Mohan] to impersonate and write exam his behalf. .. … then when a tough
internal exam is set, Kamal writes the exam with the help of Crazy Mohan
through Bluetooth ! In Sankar’s Robot – Enthiran with the
storyline of Sujatha, Chitti helps Sana
[AishwaryaRai] first by voice and then by emitting the visual images of books
reflected near her.
A
couple of years ago, the shameful incident of a school in Thiruvannamalai -
Mount Saint JosephMatriculation Higher Secondary School (known as Mount
School) caught in the shameful act of
organised copying resulting in
suspension of 7 teachers, Principal of the school being relieved of examination
duty caused sensation …. In 2009, Madras High Court dismissed a petition by over 20 teacher
training institute students, who were caught by a ‘flying squad’ for adopting
the ‘Vasool Raja MBBS’ technique of using cell phones to answer questions in
examination.
Girls score better than boys has been the routine headline, and it
now turns out they are also way ahead when it comes to cheating at the exams. Bangalore
University’s undergraduate exams are now in progress, and flying squads have
caught more girls copying than boys. Of 43 cases booked so far, 33 are against
girls, reports New Indian Express, Bangalore edition.
K
N Ningegowda, Registrar (Evaluation) is quoted as telling Express, “Girls are emboldened as they assume
the squads, usually made up of men, cannot frisk them. Looking at the number of
cases against girls, I have now decided to send a woman member in each
squad.”In some cases, the girls were hiding pages and pages folded up, and not
just chits. “We were surprised to see the notes hidden in their clothes. Of
course it is impossible for a male squad to check them,” said Sangeetha, who
co-ordinated with the squad to catch out the girls. “All of them were trying to
copy from paper, and not with the help of gadgets,” Gowda explained. Mobiles
and watches are barred from the exam hall. A majority of the copying cases were
reported from government women’s colleges.
28th May 2016.
28th May 2016.