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Examination is an assessment intended to measure a test-taker's knowledge, skill, aptitude, physical fitness, or classification in many other topics. An exam may be administered verbally, on paper, on a computer, or in a confined area that requires a test taker to physically perform a set of skills.
Exams/tests vary in style, rigor and requirements. For example, in a closed book test, a test taker is often required to rely upon memory to respond to specific items whereas in an open book test, a test taker may use one or more supplementary tools such as a reference book or calculator when responding to an item.
A test may be administered formally or informally. An example of an informal test would be a reading test administered by a parent to a child. An example of a formal test would be a final examination administered by a teacher in a classroom or an I.Q. test administered by a psychologist in a clinic. Formal testing often results in a grade or a test score, according to wikipedia.org
Cheating in an exam is a complete violation of the intent of the test and could produce a false result which could go-on to alter a whole lot of things in the future and it is totally abhorred in every modern society.
Report out recently from an India University is in no way palatable to the ethics of examination. Indian studends
According to the BBC, students are often keen to exercise
their rights but recently there has been an interesting twist - some in India
are talking about their right to cheat in university exams.
"It is our democratic right!" a thin, addled-looking man named Pratap Singh once said to me as he stood, chai in hand, outside his university in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. "Cheating is our birthright."
Corruption in the university exam system is common in this part of India. The rich can bribe their way to examination success. There's even a whole subset of the youth population who are brokers between desperate students and avaricious administrators.
Then there's another class of student altogether, who are so well known locally - so renowned for their political links - invigilators dare not touch them. I've heard that these local thugs sometimes leave daggers on their desk in the exam hall. It's a sign to invigilators: "Leave me alone... or else."
So if those with money or political influence can cheat, poorer students ask, why shouldn't they?
Read More; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29950843
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