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Nigeria has lost about N190 billion to poor examination ethics in the last five years, the current report of the Examination Ethics Project (EEP) has revealed.

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Let’s admit the obvious. Academic cheating is at least as old as Socrates. What changes is the technology, not the morality. In the end, this case hits so hard because it may involve a wide circle of the school’s academic elite, many of whom may have known about the cheating for a long time.

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Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) tests will continue on Monday, even as the police and the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) conduct investigations to determine how an exam paper was leaked at least one day before the exams began earlier this week.

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Exclusive Express reports revealed last Friday that some pupils were spending as much as $5,000 to obtain a copy of “the master copy” of the exam paper, at least a day in advance of the scheduled exam. And on one day later, new reports emerged that some pupils were able to obtain other exams in advance via e-mail.

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According to one survey, 60 percent of high school students admitted to cheating on a test over the past year. We’re swimming in a sea of cheating – so I decided recently that I’d better talk to my kids about it, before they get the idea that everyone in the world cheats and it’s pointless to resist.

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CU is ranked among the most popular schools on “CourseHero.com,” with the university’s students circulating nearly 42,000 tests, study guides, research papers and other academic documents on the site.The Web site is considered a gold mine for students enrolled in courses with professors who recycle tests or mildly tweak questions from semester to semester. And as final exams approach, subscriptions to the site are soaring, the creator says.

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UNCC junior Simon O’Brien created the web site Keeboh.com to allow students and faculty to post and download previous exams. University leaders say this might be against school rules, and the law. As final exams near, O’Brien says he is just trying to level the playing field.

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During high-stakes TAKS testing last month, outside monitors found potential security violations and notable disorganization at Forest Brook High School, which has faced cheating suspicions in recent years.

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Another company says the issue of stolen test results is epidemic when it comes to IT certifications. “The biggest problem are tests that are stolen and sold. That is devastating to a testing program and in the IT area, it’s huge,” says Don Sorensen, VP of marketing for Caveon, a five-year-old Utah firm that specializes in rooting out security problems in standardized tests.

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For instance, Scott noted friends of students can simply log on to Google outside the classroom, find exam answers, and send them back to their test-taking friends who have silenced their phones.Camera phones have made it all the easier, as friends in remote locations can simply send images of completed tests or answer sheets to each other.