MSU report says girls beat boys in cheating in exams

Vadodara: “Number of girl students caught adopting unfair means while appearing in the exams have gone up,” said Prof M N Parmar, convenor of MSU’s unfair means committee, which disclosed a report on “copy cats” found during the first half exams conducted at the university campus.
The report alarmingly revealed that as many as 67 girl students were caught adopting unfair means during the examination, while only 59 boys were found cheating.
However, Parmar further said that exam reforms introduced by the university along with awareness programmes have resulted in lesser number of copycats.
“Overall the number of such cases have reduced significantly. Earlier, we would find more than 200 cases, which came down to 170 last time and this time we have 130 such cases,” he said.
Explaining why cases of cheating have gone down over time, Parmar said that many students now know that if they fail in a particular subject in the month of June, they can appear again in the month of October. “This is much better instead of wasting an entire term if they are caught cheating,” he added.
While most of them were found to be using traditional methods of using chits, writing answers on clip boards and body parts, some were novel methods were revelations even for the hawk-eyed faculty.