By CHHENG Sambo
Phnom Penh–Every year, the irregularity always exist before and during the Baccalaureate, BacII examinatioin for student in grade 12 in Cambodia. And these error make the quality of the students as a productive citizen are under the low line.
Generally, Baccalaureate, BacII examinatioin takes place in the early month of August every year. Students are seen to be very busy with their study part time and copying notes as they believe it will be helpful for them to cheat during the examination.
A month before the exam, most student are working hard and go everywhere in order to ask friends or their relative to seek for any documents for their exam. Most of them do not care for other thing; they only concentrate on the exam.
As a fact, whenever someone tells them there are some documents which will be appeared in the exam they always spend money to buy those documents. They seem to be afraid of failing their exam because most of them think that sitting on this exam is their final life for education as well as it can be a bridge to peruse to the university.
Meanwhile everywhere are seen at photo copy shops are so busy as well as any other bookstores along with students ask for books, correction books, notes, test document which can be help the to prepare notes to cheat or sharing with other.
The whole sense before the exam can be seen so dramatic especially to the poor but for the rich it is becomes a common thing because they have money so they can buy those documents easily. However, for the poor are impossible to do like the rich. They have to do on their best before the and during exam.
When these activities become chaos before the exam, so students sometimes they do not learn hard or try to research, read the book but they feel 100% depend on the cheating note and money to give for the superintending during the exam.
However, there are some students they are working very hard for their exam especially with the poor students and sometimes the rich as well. And as a result, those people usually get good achievement and good work for their future.
In contrary, during the exam everything seems to be well-organized and actually the Cambodia government does a good job but there are errors inside at the examination place. The inspections force students to pay money in order they allow the students to cheat or see each other, however, sometimes students themselves raise money from students in class to give to the inspections.
All of these now become a tradition before and during the examination in Cambodia, however, Cambodia government also take step each year in order to kick out these problems but errors are still happen in the test room.
Most people said that these activities happen because of the poverty and the living standard especially with a poor government for the national exam. And students have no willing or feel dependent for their exam because in a class at public school most teachers do not teach them very well. They focus only part time class in order to earn money. So for the rich they can get knowledge in contrary to the poor they do not have money to pay for part time class.
Most NGOs are concerning about Cambodian students’ education in future very much and they also urge the government to settle this problem otherwise Cambodian student will never be a good productive citizen for the country.
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