Article: Matric cheating

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Results will be withheld in 58 matric examination centres in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape following copying, monitoring body Umalusi said on Tuesday.

Evidence of "group copying" was found in these centres, Umalusi council chairman Prof John Volmink told reporters in Pretoria.

 

[Creag]

Group copying? Good grief. Whatever next. So easy at the mo and still need to cheat?

 

[The Voice]

Group copying? Good grief. Whatever next. So easy at the mo and still need to cheat?

And still only scrape through with a 30% pass? Holy ****. Just how dumb are kids these days?!

 

[Knyro]

Group copying? Good grief. Whatever next. So easy at the mo and still need to cheat?

And they can't even get that right. How dumb do you have to be to copy each other word for word?

 

[Creag]

And still only scrape through with a 30% pass? Holy ****. Just how dumb are kids these days?!

And they can't even get that right. How dumb do you have to be to copy each other word for word?

Both so true. It is a real shame that they resort to such low efforts. What's wrong good old fashioned hard work?

 

[Rocket Raccoon]

Divided we stand, united we fail.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Both so true. It is a real shame that they resort to such low efforts. What's wrong good old fashioned hard work?

And the joke is it was never really that hard or much work now, 10 or 20 years ago.

 

[R13...]

Group copying? Good grief. Whatever next. So easy at the mo and still need to cheat?

Wasn't some private school found to have provided the matric exams to their students before the exam some years ago and I think the "invigilators" were also alleged to have "assisted" in the exams.

 

[Creag]

Wasn't some private school found to have provided the matric exams to their students before the exam some years ago and I think the "invigilators" were also alleged to have "assisted" in the exams.

Come to think of it, group copying couldn't have been done without some assistance from teachers or invigilators?

 

[Knyro]

Come to think of it, group copying couldn't have been done without some assistance from teachers or invigilators?

From the article:

"It is clear that there is sharing of notes, it is clear that there is dictation."

Giving an example, he said whoever gave the dictation to pupils said "go ahead" and the pupils wrote "go ahead" on their answer sheets.

He said if pupils wanted to cheat it was the duty of teachers, principals, and supervisors to stop them.

"It means that the supervisors have allowed it and this situation cannot be tolerated," he said.

 

[Hectic]

I was either born in the wrong era or in the right one.
Really depends on how you look at it.

 

[Zyron]

What's wrong good old fashioned hard work?

It's a generation that wants all the privilege with none of the accountability.

 

[Mila]

From the article:

Bwhahahahahaha! Nee regtig hoe Dom is jy?

Bwhahahahahahahaha ha!

Sad part is that this will be part of the job market next year, and complain about only having a minimum wage job... And then will burn things and demand 12500 a month.. And think they deserve it.

Sies.

 

[JerryMungo]

I cannot believe that there wasn't at least one hardworking student who blew the whistle... Then again, maybe that's how they were alerted? It's so unfair on the hard workers at those schools.

 

[bekdik]

Both so true. It is a real shame that they resort to such low efforts. What's wrong good old fashioned hard work?

They simply follow the example of brother president ...

 

[Nuke]

Giving an example, he said whoever gave the dictation to pupils said "go ahead" and the pupils wrote "go ahead" on their answer sheets.

This is not even average everyday stupid... it is advanced stupid

 

[Sonic2k]

This is not even average everyday stupid... it is advanced stupid

Advanced stupid??
Sounds just like the current ruling party.

 

[nightjar]

Advanced stupid??
Sounds just like the current ruling party.

Assuming the supervisors were teachers at the offending schools, "the same right answers, the same wrong answers" says a lot about the standard of the teachers.

 

[JerryMungo]

Assuming the supervisors were teachers at the offending schools, "the same right answers, the same wrong answers" says a lot about the standard of the teachers.

Maybe the wrong answers were deliberate to make it less obvious lol. They would have been better off offering the kids multiple choice.

In other news, independent examination board pupils achieved 98+% pass rate. Either IEB exams are easier, more consistent, marked properly, or the pupils are better educated.