Pupils use mobile phones to cheat in exams

The use of mobile phones to help answer questions during (UK) exams helped contribute to a 9% increase in cheating last year, reports The Guardian.

"The figures from the three exam boards reveal that the 2004 exam season - including GCSEs, A-levels and vocational qualifications - saw more cheating than previous years. Some 2,500 students had marks deducted for breaking exam rules last year.

Of those, 1,000 were punished or warned for using a mobile phone to, among other things, receive text answers to tricky questions, the figures from Edexcel, the Oxford, Cambridge and RSA (OCR) and the Assessment and Qualification Alliance (AQA) exam boards, obtained by the Times Educational Supplement.

The top five offences

1 inappropriate use of mobile phones (1,013)
2 coursework sharing (695)
3 disruption in exam halls (523)
4 books or notes brought into exam (352)
5 coursework plagiarism (277)

emily | 3:41 PM | SMS and Students |
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