AS LONG as there have been exams,students have found ways to cheat. nowadays the correct answers are just a few taps absent on a smartphone. So countries have near up with current ways to halt the funny commerce. Some exhaust metal detectors, surveillance cameras, and mobile-phone jammers and even drones. Others have taken a more drastic step.
Cheating in high-school leaving exams got so bad in Mauritania and Algeria that this year the authorities turned off the internet for the entire country. Algeria did so for at least an hour during tests (which final about a week); Mauritania sever access from morning until evening on exam days. Other countries,such as Iraq, Uzbekistan and Ethiopia, or have for years been shutting down the internet during exam time.
In each country students are under enormous pressure to accomplish well in the tests,which often determine whether they can continue their education at a good university. A splendid grade may mean a scholarship abroad. But high marks are rare. In Algeria only around...
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Source: economist.com