The strategies used by some schools who collaborate to cheat in BECE and WASSCE exams is still a mystery for WAEC. However, if WAEC is aware of the issues explained in this post but they does not do anything about it, then were are in for more trouble.
Every year, schools prepare their BECE and WASSCE candidates for the WAEC-administered examinations, but they also unite to help their candidates cheat in both the BECE and WASSCE.
While not all schools engage in cheating or get the opportunity to cheat, it is important to note that schools that are exam centres may create a conducive environment for exam cheating to flourish.
If the school serving as a WAEC exam centre for BECE or WASSCE is engaged in any form of cheating, chances are that it will not be able to help WAEC preserve the integrity of the exam hall.
How do schools unite to cheat in BECE and WASSCE?
Sometimes schools writing WAEC-administered examinations in a given exam centre may meet prior to the exam week or on the first day of the exam to discuss how they can offer support to WAEC exam officers and security officers in charge of the exam on behalf of WAEC.
Often, these schools may agree on an amount of money to be paid by the school or by each student writing the exam. These fees are put together and used very often to provide launches to the invigilators and security officers.
Sometimes, some of the funds realized may be given to the officers as transportation.
Such support offered to examiners can easily influence them without the schools directly requesting it.
If the invigilators and senior exam officers at a given exam centre are obligated to “help” candidates of the schools as a favour to pay back, he or she may be compelled to lower the rules and instructions during the examination in question.
As a result, the candidates will be able to break the WAEC exam rules by sharing information, answers, and even question papers with answers written on them while the examination is going on.
What can WAEC do to stop cheating in BECE and WASSCE?
1. WAEC must motivate invigilators during the conduct of their work by offering them transportation and feeding them each day during the exam. This should be different from whatever WAEC will pay them after the examination.
2. WAEC must monitor schools that serve as exam centres for any sign of breach of the exam rules.
3. Invigilators must be educated to hold on to their ethical values and adhere to the WAEC examination rules as required of them without compromise.
4. Schools must desist from providing any form of financial and non financial motivation and support to invigilators posted to work for WAEC during WAEC examinations so that the officers are not compromised.
5. Invigilators must resist every attempt by hosting examination centre schools and all affiliated schools that write the WASSCE and BECE in the centres they are posted to.
Do you have a contribution to make?
Do you know any other means through which schools collaborate to cheat in BECE and WASSCE exams which have not been mentioned in this post? Share it with us.
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Do you have any suggestions that will help ensure the credibility of the WAEC administered examinations? Why not share them in the comment session.
We all have a role to play to safeguard these examinations. Schools, head teachers, parents, teachers and candidates must play their civic roles if the examinations will be free from compromise in any way possible.
Source: Ghanaeductionnnews.org