People demanded that the decision be reconsidered

Private schools combat “cheating in exams” by integrating students from different classes

The integration system gives the student an opportunity to focus on the exam.

Photography: Ahmed Ardeti

Parents of students confirmed that their children were confused while entering the classrooms to take the exams for the first semester, after private schools that apply foreign curricula distributed students into groups, and merged them with other students, as students from the sixth grade were merged with students in higher grades, to reduce cheating operations. During the exams, they pointed out that changing the classrooms, suddenly putting the students’ names on the classroom doors and on the classroom seats without warning, and their sitting with older students, led to their dispersal during the exam, calling for a reconsideration of the decision.

And private school administrations reported that this measure aims to reduce cheating among students and speaking during exams, and to give the student the opportunity to focus on the exam away from any disturbance from his classmates.

She explained that the process of integrating students went smoothly, as 10 students from each class were merged with students from another class in a different stage of study, and the names of the students were placed on the doors of the classrooms and seats, and students were allowed to enter the examination halls 10 minutes before the exam time, to give them enough time To sit in the exam halls.

She added that merging seventh-grade students with the ninth, the sixth with the eighth, and the tenth and 11th with the 12th, prevents any attempt to cheat because there is a student next to a student in a larger or smaller class, and this procedure facilitates the work of observers in exam halls, and contributes to giving the student confidence in himself to answer questions Exam questions.

Parents of students: Sadiq Majadli, Saeed Abu Warda, Abeer Abu Taha and Sherine Kayed confirmed that their sons were surprised when they arrived in the examination halls by changing places, transferring them to other halls and merging them with students of lesser age, which led to their confusion.

They added that the schools had to inform the students two days before the start of the examination of this procedure, so that they could know the examination halls without wasting time in searching for the place designated for each student.

They explained that the supervisory role of teachers and supervisors is sufficient to monitor exams and reduce cheating among students without integrating them with other students and transferring them to other classes, noting that cheating attempts currently rely on smart and electronic devices more than relying on traditional cheating and speaking to colleagues in the exam hall. , calling on school administrations to review this procedure in future exams to avoid students’ confusion.

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