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By Abubakar Muhammad Bello

Examination they say is the test of knowledge, lecturers, teachers, tutors, mentors sets examination for students or their subjects to answer in order for them to know how good is the students paying attention with what they taught them in class.

Examination Malpractice means cheating in exam hall either with cheap note or write-ups all over you body, using of mobile phones etc.

 In Nigeria, examination malpractice has become one of the bad side crippling the country education system as people cheats in both internal and external examinations.

 In this article, we will take a closer look at examination malpractice causes, how it affects students and solutions for it.  

Definition of examination malpractice, Examination malpractice can simply be defined as academic dishonesty or academic fraud. In fact, both of these notions can be used interchangeably. So, what is the definition of examination malpractice?

This is any type of cheating during the examination process. It does not only refer to students, but to staff too. There are a lot of different types of examination malpractice, but the most general ones are:

Plagiarism: reproduction of someone's work without any sort of attribution or references to the original author. Fabrication: falsification of data, information or reference sources.

Lying: giving wrong info to the educational staff.

Cheating: an attempt to take in helpful material for the exam but in a way that the instructor or the examiner does not know about it, including the use of cheat sheets.

Bribery: getting the right answers or marks for money. Sabotage: an attempt to prevent others from passing the exams.

This includes, among other things, tearing pages from their books, deliberate damage to someone else's work etc.

Professor-teaching misconduct: deliberately giving incorrect grade to the student's work or encouraging academic fraud.

when a students cheats in an examination hall it shows how poor the student is in terms of learning and it brings out the bad side of the students and make them not to concentrate with academic activities.

The federal and state government should implement a law that will jail any student that is caught cheating in an examination hall, with this measures i think there would be drastic reduction in examination malpractice as no one would like to go to jail.

Schools are to employ more securities that will always monitor and invigilate the students when they are writing their examination.