Examination Ethics and Malpractice ethics

EXAMINATION ETHICS AND MALPRACTICE ETHICS

            Examination ethics are rules governing the conduct of examination. They are set rules/principles to ensure that an examination goes on in the right way.

These rules range from

 

• ·         Do not talk to any student/candidate while writing an examination for any reason.
• ·         Do not bring in any material into the examination hall except your writing materials ( pen, pencil, eraser, mathematical set without the leaflet, non-programmable calculator, ruler).
• ·         Do not write anything on any part of your body (micro-chip).
• ·         Do not have foreknowledge of the examination question paper.
• ·         Prepare for your examination before the date and get ready.
• ·         Do not expect your student teacher to assist you in the examination hall.

If these rules are strictly followed, examinations are well conducted and the results will show exactly how candidates performed and how much of the subjects they have mastered.

 

 MALPRACTICE

          Examination malpractices are those bad practices that are not in agreement with the examination rules and regulations. It is simply not going by examination ethics. These malpractices include getting help in any way. Candidates who copy from textbooks, notebooks, fellow candidates, papers thrown into the hall by relations, friends, teachers, parents or touts, engaged in examination malpractice.

          Students who engage in malpractice are usually lazy students who do not work hard, they spend the time meant for their studies on trivial issues and fail to study hard to be fully equipped with the knowledge of their subjects.

           Students who engaged in examination malpractice write their examination under tension. They are always afraid of supervisors and invigilators. Such students are harassed in the examination halls and do not have the composure (rest of mind) to write down even the little they may know, hence they fail their examination with “distinction” and get thoroughly frustrated.

           The few who succeed in getting people to write examinations for them or who copy and manage to pass are cheats. Their certificates are stolen certificates because they cannot defend it. Such cheats disappoint and disgrace their parents, relations, friends, institutions, themselves and the society at large because they will occupy positions in diverse endeavors and begin to corrupt the system they are in and give out under standardized products and services.

           Examination malpractice can ruin your career. You may succeed in having your way through while in school but it haunts you when you are in a larger society like in the industries and any field of endeavor, then what you are expected to know, you do not know and you see yourself going down the rail because you will be a failure. It could also be that you were caught in examination malpractice while in school and the case (judgment) was delayed till you graduated, my dear, you will be DE-robed; so do avoid examination malpractice of any sort and walk with your shoulders high wherever you find yourself. If you study hard, you will definitely succeed without examination malpractice.  God being with us as our helper.