ANYTHING GOOD OR BAD HAS RESULTANT OUTCOMES…. THE EFFECTS OF EXAMINATION MALPRACTICE

Anything Good Or Bad Has Resultant Outcomes

ANYTHING good or bad has a consequence. Examination malpractice has serious consequences for personal and societal development. Indeed, anything with the prefix –mal has negative consequences. Why then should you think malnutrition needs to be talked about and prevented while malpractice in examination, should be kept on the quiet, not to be dealt with?

Examination malpractice has far reaching consequences for our society. The first consequence is that, we are raising a generation of young people who believe that you can get SOMETHING OUT OF DOING NOTHING. You see young people of today preparing for examinations and one will wonder if it is the same EXAMINATION we prepared for in yesteryears?

The zeal and motivation for studying is low. The preparation almost nonexistent. You see them coiled around  television sets watching programmes that have no bearing on their academic work; grossly soaked in one form of betting or the other, smooching their smart phones into ‘premature ejaculations’ and wasting their lives away.

We cannot build any great society this way. It will come crashing like a pack of cards in no time. In a society where the values of work are missing, even heaven will send no miracle to redeem it from its woes. Unfortunately, this is our reality today as a nation.

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Another consequence is that ACADEMIC progress becomes tougher for such people as they climb the academic ladder. The truth is that academic disciplines and consequences for malpractices become stiffer and tougher as you climb higher.

When we were in the university, examination malpractice whether by students or lecturers attracted serious punitive sanctions.  I remember at KNUST, a lecturer was sacked after he was found guilty of examination malpractice. Can you imagine that?

The young people who climb higher because of cheating, either aided by teachers or invigilators suffer serious difficulties ahead, because the invigilators don’t obviously follow them to the tertiary institutions. I was not the least bit surprised when at the just ended WASSCE, some lazy and foolish students boycotted the examination on the grounds that they were not allowed to cheat. What arrant nonsense!

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Anything Good Or Bad Has Resultant Outcomes

Another issue is that, this practice serves as a precedence to upcoming candidates. They start comparing how they were treated by invigilators and which invigilator ‘did well’ for them. Do you know the result of this? It creates all sorts of dislike for invigilators and teachers who do not allow students to engage in malpractices. They are tagged as ‘enemies of progress.’

Today, in the minds of lazy students, a wicked teacher is the one who will not allow them to cheat in the examination hall. This is what our society is turning into. I must say without any apologies that, no school environment flourishes with these kinds of attitude.

At the national level, we suffer from putting square pegs in round holes because those who cheat are mostly able to find their way up into sensitive places and positions where they mess things up. They steal with smiling faces, bribe without looking back, and defend the indefensible even when they are caught in the act. They have no integrity whatsoever. These acts affect us negatively as a nation. The earlier we resolve these issues the better for all of us.

On this note I say congratulations to all teachers and invigilators who are still steering the wheel of conscience in a society where morality and righteousness is gradually having no say. LET PEOPLE OF CONSCIENCE ARISE!

For the love of God, society and young people.

Blessings,

Rev Seth Kunkpe

Penfromafar…writing to make things right!

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