Lagos — Recently, the West African Examination Council (WAEC), released the results of the General Certificate Examinations (GCE), conducted in 2003. As usual, close to 40,000 results were withheld as a result of examination malpractices. This figure, as alarming as it is, is far from the truth. The fact is, over 70 per cent of candidates who sit for such an exam commit one form of fraud or the other.
The scale of exam misconduct in Nigeria is phenomenal. Unfortunately, however, only a fraction of compatriots understands the many faces of exam fraud in the country. Like electoral fraud, malpractices occur before, during and after the exam. From the elementary school to tertiary level, exam fraud is perpetrated in one form or the other. The criminals are not only the students. Other stakeholders in education are culpable by design, default or both.
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