MP Mohamed Aboul Enein affirmed that cheating in Thanawya Amma exams is a serious issue and a serious violation of the principle of equal opportunities and equality between students.
In his word before the parliament’s plenary session to discuss a draft law on combating exam violations, Aboul Enein stated that the whole society must join forces to fight this dilemma, adding that cheating is an ethical and educational issue in the first place.
“In order to combat this dilemma at its core, the pattern of exams, the question and curriculum style, the method of teaching and the school style must be changed,” he clarified.
Moreover, the lawmaker stressed that the family, the school, the examination system, the calendar, and the media have a major role in preventing fraud and organizing the educational process.
Aboul Enein also called for the introduction of a continuous evaluation system throughout the school year for students through scientific debates, research work, oral exams, and presentation of topics, adding that modern education is based on an evaluation of 70% during the school year and only 30% in a final exam and that the student has more than one opportunity to obtain better grades.
He proposed that recent exam questions must measure the understanding of students and not to be based on memorization, and demanded to move away from paper exams, and encouraged to apply the idea of electronic exams, provided that each student’s exam is completely different from the test of the rest of his colleagues in the exam committee.
The plan includes 20 students in the committee who goes through 20 different exams randomly chosen from a questions bank so that the students enter their codes or passwords and the computer randomly selects their exam questions, and each exam is different for every student.
