₦airaland Forum

Oladimejjy:
Here in the North,the student don't even read at all.
Currently serving here and I have to write expo on the board every day of d exam!!!
They had English yesterday, I don't even bother to go.

Muna4real:
Examination malpractice is becoming worse as the days go by especially and in fact, only in Nigeria. Students no longer read ahead for their exams. What they do, is to "gather " money for the exams. The rate of exam malpractice has risen to the extent that even parents are involved in this shameful act. Let me tell you my story.

I sat for my WAEC exams in 2017. I actually started preparing for my exams in ss2 ,because I knew that my parents will never ever pay for Expo, and so I had to respect myself and do my best. While the exam date was approaching, I discovered that most boys in my class were not coming to school frequently as they were . As the class monitor, I was always marking them absent in the school register. So one day I decided to ask them why they don't come to school as often, and they told me that they had to gather money for Expo . They said that they cannot kill themselves reading everyday when they can just pay to pass. I was half surprised because they were not doing well in class Afterall. I tried to make them drop the idea but it was a fruitless effort.

My principal later appointed a particular teacher to be the school's exam coordinator. This man Ehh, is the state's top run's man. He runs for waec, jamb, neco, post utme, in fact, he is a top runner( so he made us believe). As the exams were approaching, he started collecting money for Expo, and he collected based on the importance of the subject. Example

Maths -5000

English -5000

Chemistry -5000

Physics -5000

Biology 4000

Commerce -3000

Tie and die -1500,and so on.

Students were paying and since I couldn't pay, I was reading. I became as thin as a broom stick. The teacher was even registering people who will not even write the exams. Those ones payed about 60000 . They couldn't write because they were working. I got to know all about this because this teacher will tell us to our faces to bring our loved ones who are willing to pay.

When the exams came, the first subject we wrote was maths. My people, come and see runs. I haven't seen any like it in my entire life. Those who payed were sitting at the back while we were sitting at the front. Sometimes the invigilator will taunt us and laugh at us because we refused to pay. What surprised me more was the amount the invigilator collected. My people, he requested for 350000. My class was large and in fact, another school was joining us, so we were up to 300. Our "Expo teacher " payed the money and added a slaughtered fowl which he asked me to buy (as the prefect of the class). I didn't know that I was buying fowl for an Expo invigilator ohh. He just said that I should buy fowl and I bought.

Through out the days we wrote the exams, the invigilators were payed. The teacher was writing personally for those who couldn't come to the school to write. He would take answer booklets, ask other teachers for the answers to the ones he doesn't know (all teachers were working together), write for them and submit. I wasn't scared because I was confident in what I wrote and in fact, the exams were simple for me . I only had difficulty in physics.

My people when the results were out, I passed ohh but guess who was the best student. The best student of my school 2017/1018 session was a pump attendant at one filling station in sapele who didn't even know the address of my school. He was one of those students my teacher was writing for. Chai. Ahh this life no balance.

When will malpractice stop in Nigeria? When will our youths begin to see that malpractice damages the society. These days, there are half baked graduated everywhere. Why? Why can't they just put enough hard work if they want to pass exams? Why?

Mustiboy:
Mumu, you are trying to switch tongues. Oponú

AnonymousRebec:
It is very unfortunate. These are the people that will get jobs and cannot perform well in their jobs.
In between, its 'paid' and not 'payed'

vykdevil:
i rremember i read like you. from ss2 i made up my mind not to do malpractice. nd after the exam. while everyone that cheated had A's. i had C's an on E..
up till now i still regret why i ddnt join them in cheating

Micmuzac:
malpractice will end when government ends its shortchanging of the citizens in terms of rights, benefits as entrenched in the constitution, since no government of this country can guarantee that, it's an utopian wish for corruption or malpractice to end in this country.
Mind you,not all students who did expo are unintelligent or brilliant, Even waec and jamb is a scam in legimacy here in Nigeria,but don't ask me how,the standard varies from region and yearly basis, I've done my research to see that examination na scam for this Nigeria , if not ask your self why do Nigerians hardly fail outside our shore academically? and why are the best students always running abroad for further studies,and even below average students here get distinctions when abroad? it's the system, are you not surprised that if three people write thesame paper with thesame expo they don't get thesame result even in mathematics? the ecosystem obtainable here is just not inhuman but deliberately wicked to hardwork, it's only here they tell you the school can't admit all who made the pass mark and give you no options to try other schools but ask you to try your luck next year! just because you didn't buy change of institution form and their nonsense regulations,guy hardwork here is a formality.

Muna4real:
Examination malpractice is becoming worse as the days go by especially and in fact, only in Nigeria. Students no longer read ahead for their exams. What they do, is to "gather " money for the exams. The rate of exam malpractice has risen to the extent that even parents are involved in this shameful act. Let me tell you my story.

I sat for my WAEC exams in 2017. I actually started preparing for my exams in ss2 ,because I knew that my parents will never ever pay for Expo, and so I had to respect myself and do my best. While the exam date was approaching, I discovered that most boys in my class were not coming to school frequently as they were . As the class monitor, I was always marking them absent in the school register. So one day I decided to ask them why they don't come to school as often, and they told me that they had to gather money for Expo . They said that they cannot kill themselves reading everyday when they can just pay to pass. I was half surprised because they were not doing well in class Afterall. I tried to make them drop the idea but it was a fruitless effort.

My principal later appointed a particular teacher to be the school's exam coordinator. This man Ehh, is the state's top run's man. He runs for waec, jamb, neco, post utme, in fact, he is a top runner( so he made us believe). As the exams were approaching, he started collecting money for Expo, and he collected based on the importance of the subject. Example

Maths -5000

English -5000

Chemistry -5000

Physics -5000

Biology 4000

Commerce -3000

Tie and die -1500,and so on.

Students were paying and since I couldn't pay, I was reading. I became as thin as a broom stick. The teacher was even registering people who will not even write the exams. Those ones payed about 60000 . They couldn't write because they were working. I got to know all about this because this teacher will tell us to our faces to bring our loved ones who are willing to pay.

When the exams came, the first subject we wrote was maths. My people, come and see runs. I haven't seen any like it in my entire life. Those who payed were sitting at the back while we were sitting at the front. Sometimes the invigilator will taunt us and laugh at us because we refused to pay. What surprised me more was the amount the invigilator collected. My people, he requested for 350000. My class was large and in fact, another school was joining us, so we were up to 300. Our "Expo teacher " payed the money and added a slaughtered fowl which he asked me to buy (as the prefect of the class). I didn't know that I was buying fowl for an Expo invigilator ohh. He just said that I should buy fowl and I bought.

Through out the days we wrote the exams, the invigilators were payed. The teacher was writing personally for those who couldn't come to the school to write. He would take answer booklets, ask other teachers for the answers to the ones he doesn't know (all teachers were working together), write for them and submit. I wasn't scared because I was confident in what I wrote and in fact, the exams were simple for me . I only had difficulty in physics.

My people when the results were out, I passed ohh but guess who was the best student. The best student of my school 2017/1018 session was a pump attendant at one filling station in sapele who didn't even know the address of my school. He was one of those students my teacher was writing for. Chai. Ahh this life no balance.

When will malpractice stop in Nigeria? When will our youths begin to see that malpractice damages the society. These days, there are half baked graduated everywhere. Why? Why can't they just put enough hard work if they want to pass exams? Why?

fubsy:
I think computer-based exams with staggered questions for all students should be the way. These days, participating in exam malpractice is like a thing of pride. SMH for the future.

ModestGal:
Me too. I'm still regretting and will always regret

edoairways:
Don't regret, at least you can defend that result anywhere.

IvarTheBoneless:
This OP is from the South East and lives there.

So no surprise. Na miracle centres full there.

Cmanforall:
This is a decadence in our educational system.
I have discussed a pathway to curtail this malpractice with some people.
My idea is great, but I think I need to be a Minister for education or special adviser to the president on education for it to come to fruition.

There is a way out, and I hope malpractice ends soon to save the future of Nigeria

Muna4real:
Who gave me Expo to write from? Lol.

I started preparing for that exam from ss2. I knew I could write it by myself especially after seeing the past questions .

ModestGal:
This is where you are mistaking, the ones that cheated to pass can defend whatever degree they have today. Infact, they can even still defend the WAEC sef. In a sane country, there shouldn't be stigma for students with a C in gaining admission to anywhere because the bell curve will always be bell.
But in Nigeria, nothing has pattern, so if a C student upgrade to A with cheating to gain admission into a course, do you think it would affect him in anyway in the future?

In a good country, there shouldn't be stigma on some courses and zero opportunities in other.
The problem is deep, and has no solution, I do advise young ones to go to centers where they can pass WAEC in A's for easy admission, once thier WAEC is good, they can face jamb squarely or how do you think those poor children can compete with rich children with #1million secondary school tuition fee, three home lesson teachers, no house chores for them to do?

Muna4real:
Very serious. In fact, in some jamb centers, I heard that their way is different. You will give them your exam number and other details, pay them money, and then something marvelous will happen. They will sit in their houses or anywhere, and type the exams for you while you sit in the exam room doing nothing. They will submit it by themselves and when the time is up, you will leave the hall. I don't know how they managed to hack into the system. It was in the computer era at that time. I heard that the practice stopped when jamb started registering every computer system that will be used in the hall.

dumodust:
With your comments, I can deduce that you are young or probably never grew up. Anybody who has lived long enough knows that bad or faulty education will finally show when or where it counts. There are no shortcuts to it.
Your argument is defeatist and lazy which is why many youths now will never learn to persevere and succeed. No zeal to actually learn anything from the roots up and be patient. So many people born into poor families are rich today via hardwork and persistence, in fact, rich kids are more laid back and tend to be in more danger of failing if not disciplined.
I hope the people you are encouraging attend to you in the future... They will treat you and your children as doctors, build your house as engineers, may you employ them in your work place so that they provide below par services.and I pray they take the shortcuts you endorse.

MalaikaEH:
Exam malpractice is caused by proliferation of schools and it's actually what the students want. New schools should meet certain criteria before they open. School authorities allow exam malpractice mainly because they have no or limited choice. I know of a school, two years ago, where the principal was new. He was the "born again Christian" type of person. While addressing the students on his first day, he told them that he will never allow exam malpractice of any type, especially in all external exams advising the students to study hard. This was before SS3 began their WAEC registrations. Out of over seventy SS3 students at the time, only six registered and wrote the exam at that school. The rest left for other schools where they thought they will feel free.

This year, the same principal is allowing malpractice at his school.

Stopping exam malpractice won't be possible unless all schools and parents take the decision collectively, which I doubt can ever happen with freewill. It can only happen when education authorities wake up and make laws that impose heavy fines on offenders.

Also, students who fail internal promotion exams should repeat the class as was the practice before. Only those who pass entrance exams should be admitted into schools. Admissions should not be an all comers affair.

If the education authorities at all levels will look into the aforementioned areas and device workable means of enforcing them, the system will cleanse itself with time.

IvarTheBoneless:
This OP is from the South East and lives there.

So no surprise. Na miracle centres full there.

ModestGal:
You all are writing RUBBISH and NO, EXAM malpractice will NEVER END especially if Nigeria continue this way.

Who attends the good schools? The rich
Who has money for 3lesson teachers? The rich
Who doesn't do house chores and hawk? The rich
Who can meet the WAEC syllabus: The rich


Without Examination malpractice, the poor may never get a chance in this life, so if their only option is EXAM MALPRACTICE, THEN SO BE IT.

What you don't understand is that once these children gets more matured in the UNIVERSITY, they get more freedom, no more Hawking, no more house chores, they can now focus and study if they want to, but while young, only their parents can help them become focused to pass well.
But at adult age, the choice is with each individual, and thus if they become serious, they would definitely scale through in the university, I have seen many with first class. And even the rich with good results sometimes do not do as good as the poor that cheated their way in.


I REGRET NOT PERTAKING IN EXAMINATION MALPRACTICE AS IT ONLY MADE ME BEHIND.

How can a public school without Math teacher, English Teacher, Physics Teacher, leaking roof, with children from broken homes mingling with children from abused home able to pass WAEC?

How will they compete with children that attended #1million naira secondary schools?

And in the NORTH, the rich people buy WAEC from the top, so you expect children from poor homes to be doing what? Don't you know when teenagers are not happy, they end up getting pregnant, joining cultism, passing WAEC is a type of JOY, and would those children to have focus and believe in a future

Well, these people are able to perform once they gain admission into the university once they are focused and serious, so you all don't hold water. Plus Passing WAEC is a step, so if they do malpractice to pass that one, read to pass jamb, within three years they will gain admission.

In a country with No NEAR EQUALITY FOR CHILDREN'S EDUCATION, then EXAM MALPRACTICE IS A MUST

Muna4real:
Examination malpractice is becoming worse as the days go by especially and in fact, only in Nigeria. Students no longer read ahead for their exams. What they do, is to "gather " money for the exams. The rate of exam malpractice has risen to the extent that even parents are involved in this shameful act. Let me tell you my story.


My people when the results were out, I passed ohh but guess who was the best student. The best student of my school 2017/1018 session was a pump attendant at one filling station in sapele who didn't even know the address of my school. He was one of those students my teacher was writing for. Chai. Ahh this life no balance.

When will malpractice stop in Nigeria? When will our youths begin to see that malpractice damages the society. These days, there are half baked graduated everywhere. Why? Why can't they just put enough hard work if they want to pass exams? Why?

dumodust:
With your comments, I can deduce that you are young or probably never grew up. Anybody who has lived long enough knows that bad or faulty education will finally show when or where it counts. There are no shortcuts to it.
Your argument is defeatist and lazy which is why many youths now will never learn to persevere and succeed. No zeal to actually learn anything from the roots up and be patient. So many people born into poor families are rich today via hardwork and persistence, in fact, rich kids are more laid back and tend to be in more danger of failing if not disciplined.
Why some courses demand higher grades is to be sure you can go all the way, why apply for competitive course like medicine with poor grades? You won't survive 3rd year and withthe mental pressure, you may end up mad. Some things require a certain level to accomplish and reading those high courses still make them billionaires but they play a role in society by ensuring quality control. Find your level and make money from doing what you love, many billionaires are not people with very high IQs but they know how to harvest those with high intellect to work for them.
I hope the people you are encouraging to cheat attend to you in the future... They will treat you and your children as doctors, build your house as engineers, may you employ them in your work place so that they provide below par services.and I pray they take the shortcuts you endorse.

hidhrhis:
i graduated from command which is a military school, federal school and it is even the soldiers that will be giving the expo to the student on the exam hall without the supervisors knowing a thing
the supervisors always feel relax thinking the soldiers are there to supervise unknown to them they are only their to give out expo to those who paid
there is examination malpractice everywhere
those who we believe are guiding our student are the ones even encouraging them into this shit
it will take a miracle before examination malpractice can be eradicated

Amos1423:
I don't think there's any student that can boldly say he/she wrote federal examinations by themselves, even this OP self, you'd always result for help from someone no matter how brilliant you turn out to be.

Sha no be them cause am.
How can you teach and student 1+1 = 2 in class even if it requires practical; that one na dream you go get am then think of the person to answer a question which files 2*2/3+2.

How? Like how?

My dear gone are those days my father's wrote exams, if they tell you A was A believe me it was, no wonder they're turned out to be very smart but use....