THE ENDS JUSTIFIES THE MEANS: EXAMINATION MALPRACTICES IN NIGERIA

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he issue I am about to bring forward to you at this point in time is not a new one, as you might have stumbled upon it in any way, manner or time, either by way of discussion, debate or argument. Examination malpractice has become pervasive in Nigeria, the information that there is examination issue of examination malpractices is generally a stale news in Nigeria as the “syndrome” as eaten deep into the educational sector of Nigeria. This syndrome of examination malpractice has no other effect on the country’s educational sector than making it epileptic and crippled, the development of our intellectual capacity are derail. A number of factors are responsible for this taste and hunger for examination. These agents include; parents, teachers, student and government (they are primarily focusing on the end result of our education which is certificate)
The parents in Nigeria have been a major stakeholder in promoting the sin of environmental malpractice; one might wonder what do parents stand to gain in promoting exam malpractice to their child or children? Parent who finds out that a child is not as brilliant as to be able to pass an exam will in all way and manner want the child to pass that exam without preparation. In a bid to make sure a child does not repeat a class and in a bid to save them from paying school fees twice for the same class a parent might go all the way to bribe out the way of a child into being promoted to the next class and in a bid to make sure a child end up collecting the certificate that other child collect. This act can be tagged an act of selfishness and mistrust.
Other agents responsible for examination malpractices in our country are the teachers, the teacher play numerous and major roles in leading the students into the act of examination malpractice, this is done by not teaching the student what they should know. Most times teachers fail to complete the syllabus which student are meant to cover to move to the next class. In most cases also, teachers or lectures find it real hard to give a student follow up, for instance in the university, the lecturers don’t care if the students in his or her class understands a course or not. The issue at hand as lead to student creating options for themselves to pass an examination, diligent students take the attitude of the lecturer as a challenge and read so wide so as to be able to tackle any question the lecturer might want to ask in the exam, but some student will still be left with the option of exam malpractice as the last option of resort.
The government as contributed little or nothing to improve academic excellence in the educational sector as the education system of 6-3-3-4 adopted by Nigeria as not being maintained well, The management of the system is low compare to other country who adopt this system. For instance country like the US which Nigeria borrow the system from have been doing well in their education sector. Aside this, the government has failed to provide funds to the educational sector and even if they did all have ran into corrupt hands.
Our plea as student is that various agents responsible for this eccentric menace to in all way recoil from the act as it as lead to the detrimental of the image of those of us student who willing to travel abroad to show what we are made of. Also examination malpractice as left the good ones who are brilliant to fighting against the wall, as the bad ones have been seen to excel excellently well in an exam than those who sat to do the exam with their hard labour of studying. I will end my article with a story about a friend of mine who was so brilliant while we were in secondary school, he got no admission into the university despite is hard work. He was made a laughing stock for not getting admission into the university while his mates were. He remained diligent in his work and got admission into the university after many tries. But now he is doing well irrespective of any odds.