India students caught 'cheating' in exams in Bihar
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Re: India students caught 'cheating' in exams in Bihar
#2On a much different scale, but an Indian outsourcing firm we do business with (Capgemini) gives our interview questions to subsequent candidates. Sometimes it's evident they are trying desperately to Google for answers during telephone interviews, and I've even noticed that there is sometimes someone else there feeding them with answers!
Re: India students caught 'cheating' in exams in Bihar
#3Its sometimes amazing when I see other indian student ( being from south asia myself ) outsource their report writing back home from university in england.
Sometimes I sit in lectures and the the person besides me have 5+ years experience working in IT with a bachelors from India competing with 18-19 year old people.
Re: India students caught 'cheating' in exams in Bihar
#4IMHO the real problem here since a long time is that exams have been demonstrated to be flawed. You can pass an exam and have no idea on the subject. The whole system is flawed, we need a new education system.
Re: India students caught 'cheating' in exams in Bihar
#5Sigh. Unleash the troll.
Re: India students caught 'cheating' in exams in Bihar
#6IMHO the real problem here since a long time is that exams have been demonstrated to be flawed. You can pass an exam and have no idea on the subject. The whole system is flawed, we need a new education system.
The theory is right though, it's the people taking the exams that do it wrong - 'cramming' before an exam, cheating, pretty much doing everything to avoid actually understanding the subject.
Re: India students caught 'cheating' in exams in Bihar
#7On a much different scale, but an Indian outsourcing firm we do business with (Capgemini) gives our interview questions to subsequent candidates. Sometimes it's evident they are trying desperately to Google for answers during telephone interviews, and I've even noticed that there is sometimes someone else there feeding them with answers!
I didn't know Capgemini is doing much outsourcing in India.
A lecturer at my university is by Capgemini. Do you have any more good stories?
Re: India students caught 'cheating' in exams in Bihar
#8IMHO the real problem here since a long time is that exams have been demonstrated to be flawed. You can pass an exam and have no idea on the subject. The whole system is flawed, we need a new education system.
Uh huh. Like what?
Re: India students caught 'cheating' in exams in Bihar
#9IMHO the real problem here since a long time is that exams have been demonstrated to be flawed. You can pass an exam and have no idea on the subject. The whole system is flawed, we need a new education system.
In this case, you need to propose something better in order to be taken seriously. Even companies like Coursera still use exams and quizzes heavily, presumably because they couldn't come up with anything better.
The goal is to test whether someone has learned something. The most obvious way is to ask them a series of questions to confirm that they have learned it.
There are some other obvious alternatives, like having them do a project that would require having the knowledge you wanted them to learn, but those methods don't scale and are just as, if not more, vulnerable to cheating (it is common in Indian universities to hire someone to do your capstone project for you).