Over 100 students caught cheating in their English exam

Seventeen surveillance teams have been appointed.


Express April 19, 2011

SUKKUR:


Amid a shortage of seats, a lack of electricity and clean drinking water, cheating has also resurfaced in this year’s matric examinations. At least 100 students were caught copying during the SSC II English exam in Sukkur, Ghotki, Khairpur and Naushehro Feroze.


There are 181 examinations centres in all four districts, of which 146 are for boys and 35 for girls. Seventeen vigilance teams have been put together to conduct unannounced checks at the centres. The three main teams are led by the BISE chairman, secretary and examinations controller, while the remaining 14 teams comprise the respective Education District Officers (EDOs) and other BISE and education department officers.

According to the Sukkur examinations controller, Mehmoodul-Hassan Khokhar, there are 17 examination centres in Sukkur, of which 10 are for boys and seven for girls. In an improvement from Monday, unauthorised people were not allowed near school gates. These people were said to have been facilitating cheating by passing material to candidates via policeman or lower staff.

Despite these efforts, some cheating material did leak into the examination centres. On Tuesday, the Sukkur chairman, Syed Ali Shah Bukhari, visited some centres and caught students red handed.

In December 2002, Bukhari had retired as the chairman but on March 18, 2009, he was appointed Larkana’s chairman on contract. Though his two-year contract expired on March 18, 2011, it has been extended for three more years.

On March 26, the Sukkur Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE), chairman, Dr Mehboob Shaikh, was forced to resign after facing huge corruption charges and pressure from higher quarters and union office bearers. He was supposed to retire in December.

After Shaikh’s early resignation, Bukhari was placed in charge of Sukkur as well.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 20th,  2011.

COMMENTS (1)

Jeddy | 12 years ago | Reply Clearly the system in which exists is an absolute failure. The examination boards have around ever since they were set up. Just because these things are being reported now, is not something new. Cheating in exams, bribing invigilators and bribing officials in the examination boards for improving marks has been the order of the day for several decades. It is too corrupt and must be abolished.
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