A Cursory Look at Examination Malpractices in Nigerian Schools

It is an incontrovertible and veritable fact that the objective of education is invariably to prepare future leaders for the inevitable challenges in the society and by implication develop them to suit manpower requirement. This training definitely requires or involves examination and assessment from time to time, in order to ascertain the level of knowledge and competence of the students. Examination as it stands is as old as the educational system itself. It is explicitly the act of giving the students or candidates a test to determine a student’s promotion from a lower class, to a higher one. Globally, this is the basic prerequisite for climbing the educational ladder. It could come in form of a written, oral or practical test. Definitely, every examination has laid down principles or stipulations that must govern people’s conduct and behavior during the conduct of such examination ethics. Any wrong conduct discovered during the conduct of such examination is what is called examination malpractice. Apparently examination malpractice tantamount to academic and illegal act that has punitive measures attached to it. In our contemporary Nigeria, the incidence of examination malpractice has escalated tremendously, due to the students’ fear of failure, lack of confidence, inadequate preparation, laziness and a lackadaisical and unenthusiastic attitude to what brought them to school. This paper shall examine these issues. © (2024), (Elite Scientific Publications). All rights reserved.