This article is culled from The Excel Guidebook for Students: how to excel in exams, based on ethics compliant principles.
(Fourth Edition). The Exan Guidebook is published by Exam Ethics Marshal International.
- Prevents you from discovering yourself.
- Prevents you from performing well in examinations. Research conducted by Exam Ethics Marshals International in Nigeria shows that increasing incidents of examination malpractice is associated with declining performance of students as measured by credit level passes in senior secondary certificate examinations and admissions and matriculation examinations.
- Prevents you from discover your true talents.
- Deceives you from choosing the wrong profession and vocation for which you have no talents.
- Results in withholding or cancellation of your results by Exam Boards
- Avoid being expelled from school.
- Makes it difficult for you to defend your certificate and pass job interviews.
- Makes it difficult for you to succeed in private enterprise because you do not have the skills, competences and capabilities claimed in your certificate.
- Leads to embarrassment in future endeavours, careers and politics on account of certificates acquired through cheating, fraud, malpractices or forgery.
- Propagates the culture of fraud and corruption in your school, thereby negating the idea of the institution as a place for transmission of moral and ethical values. The institution is therefore turned into a factory for breeding potential fraudsters.
- Breeds and fuels culture of corruption in society as youths are fed and weaned on diets of fraud and dishonesty through examination malpractice.
- Allows incompetent, mediocre and ethics-unfriendly people to ascend into positions of powers and authority with attendant negative consequences for society.
- Promotes the habit of laziness.
- Can land you in jail.
- Prevents you from achieving your destiny.
