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Senegal jails teachers over exam fraud

Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionSecondary school students shared exam question papers over social media A teacher in Senegal has been given a five-year prison sentence and another has been fined $32,000 (£24,300) for selling exam papers. French, English, history and geography baccalaureate tests had to be scrapped last year after the question sheets circulated on social … Continue reading Senegal jails teachers over exam fraud

How Nigerian pupils cheat during WASSCE through websites

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While some youths sweat and rack their brains for answers to questions at the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination, others have perfected the art of getting cheap grades through some websites which obtain questions before the start of exams. An investigation by PUNCH Metro revealed this on Tuesday. Our correspondent had pretended to be a candidate sitting for the WASSCE being administered by the West African Examination Council. He subscribed for answers to Commerce (Objective and Theory) from five of the result-peddling websites – naijaclass.com, examcrown.com, examsort.com, waecexpo.com and guruslodge.com. While naijaclass, examcrown, examsort and waecexpo demanded N400 MTN recharge cards to send a link to the answers of the exam and N800 for direct answers to phones, guruslodge demanded N800 to send the answers directly to candidates’ phones. Candidates were, however, urged on the websites to make subscriptions for all the papers and pay into certain acco

Singapore uncovers ‘high-tech’ exam cheating plot