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Are French students bigger cheats at exams than English students ?
French students are more resourceful than ever when it comes to avoiding having to learn their lesson. A study recently carried out showed that 70.5% of students have admitted to cheating at some point and mostly by creating a crib sheet for their exams.
According to this survey, cheating starts very early: over 48% of students who took part in the survey, said they started cheating during their secondary school years (between 11 and 14). During their primary school years, there were less than 5% and one in three did it when they were at the Lycée (between 15 and 18). It would appear that when students get to University, they start being more reasonable with only 11.4% confessing to the crime.
In the UK, 4400 students were caught cheating at GCSEs and A level exams last year, a 6% increase on the previous year. But this figure is still very small given that it only affects 0.03% of exams taken.

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There are discussions about the fact that CCTV cameras could be used in examination halls to catch cheats and prevent unfounded complaints against invigilators.
If students are less likely to cheat at exams as they get older it is probably due to the fact that, unlike the Pythagorus’ formula of 4th form math tests, the information needed to write an 8 page essay is hardly going to fit on a scrap of paper.
What is more interesting however, is that professors are rather more relaxed about exam cheats and tend to concentrate more their efforts on plagiarism cases which have seen a real increase with the arrival of the internet.
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Furthermore, more than 1 in 3 has resorted to copy and paste to prepare a class presentation.
It would be interesting to ponder something once said by a Philosophy professor: “When I see the amount of work you had to put in to write your lesson on such a small piece of paper and placed it in the back of your ruler (the old version of a crib sheet), I tell myself that you have revised and that it is unlikely that you will be using your crib sheet…”
So are French students bigger cheats?
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