Copying in exams

Prof. Javed Mughal
The formidable curse which I have always warned my students against is the growing spate in the spurt of copying during the examinations now- a- days which has been nibbling into the very infra structure of the educational system and is still likely to continue stretching its obnoxious tentacles into the next posterity. Unless some drastic steps are taken to stem the tide of this fast spreading curse as early as possible, nothing constructive can be expected. Unfortunately most of the parents bitten by the seduction of good percentage encourage their children to take recourse to this malaise but they fail to understand the career-staking impact of their approach on their children. I have found a major tendency of the students towards this anathema in many areas of Doda, Kishtwar, Bhaderwah, Ramban, Rajouri and Poonch Districts of our State. Most of the teachers who entered this pious profession through backdoor-influences are involved in the obnoxious practices like examination fixing and paper leakages to collect money from the students. Woe to the teachers who bears this kind of moral character. The sub-standard lust of the teachers for money at the cost of their honour and the suicidal quest of the parents for good percentage combined with the detrimental innocence of our students have always resulted into the career-staking frustration of the students’ lot during the later stages of their life. So much so, that the responsible quarters have also frequently been found to be the part of this scathing system. The deplorable spectacles of a considerable bulk of the degree holders, transporting themselves into the clime of over-confidence regarding their future (which is bleak in fact) are enough to invite the attention of all those who have a human heart to feel and a rational mind to think of the pernicious impact of the copy- culture on the future of our youths when they, with the degrees and patents attained by the dint of mal-practice in the exams, are seen dejected after finding their names nowhere figuring in the select-lists or coming out of the Interview Commissions or Boards with nothing but a big amount of disappointment. They, for the first time, must be realizing their blunders and recalling the advice of a few good teachers who always advised them not to move into the deceitful world of unfair means during examinations. This minatory malaise not only paralyzes the mental acumen of the taughts but, if microscopically diagnosed, is also responsible for causing the total social structure rock into a false sense of security. Widespread frustration, feeling of insecurity, intellectual degeneration, social degradation and economic dependence is the ultimate fruit of the prevailing copy culture which has assumed an alarming proportion in the current educational set- up. The quality-based education has collapsed into the cold embrace of pre-mature death and quantitative literacy has plagued the students’ life so much so that they are now seen wading through the dead set of teleological psychosis .You can practically visualize the society laden with the fruitless and unpractical literates always blaming the interviewing authorities, Govt. and social system for being unjust in discharging their duties bypassing the fact that it is they who make the system and of-course they have happened to be the insignificant stuff of the society because of their failure to understand the demand of circumstances at one point of time. They are part of the system and none else but they have added to the multidimensional deterioration of educational standard. The parents try to look at the facts through the glasses colored with the parental affection and consequently cannot see the truth in its originality and then start blaming the others. Talent, capability and the spirit of working hard ultimately bless the student with the fruit which they can be proud of in future. Meanest of the means are the people and the teachers, whether in schools or at the higher level of education who, knowingly or unknowingly, add  to the eruption of immoral, illegal and unethical examination culture. My senses stop functioning and the whole body gets paralyzed when I get to know about the teachers commercializing the examinations with the loathsome inclination to extract or extort money from the pockets of the trouble-torn and mealy-mouthed students with the promise to allow them to bank upon the unfair means. The sensible students must try to keep an unattainable distance from this pestilence, taking prophylactic measures by pin-pointing and getting such teachers exposed. It has been noted may times that many teachers get bribes and sell examination centers and throw their image into the abyss of disgrace. I am immensely surprised to note that so cheap is the conscience of the teachers who stoop down to such a detestable level of working. I tried most to raise my voice against it but it is like Shakespearean Tragedy ‘Evil is punished when Good is destroyed’. One I really feels small at the sight of such” black sheep” or scapegrace in the Dept of Education who, in spite of perpetrating the most inhuman and contemptible act of examination fixing, still keep a smiling countenance having no compunction of conscience at their evil deeds. The time-being allowance for unfair-means during the examinations may be transient favour to the students but in the long run it is sure to have a crippling effect on their career. The students and the parents have to understand it earlier than to brood over it later. Nothing is more precious than the self respect which most of our teachers have put to auction in the open court. A teacher is supposed to preserve his dignity and do his duty fairly well being responsible to his conscience. There are some teachers who want to stand against this cult but being outnumbered by the unprincipled host of money-belchers they can do nothing else than rubbing their hands at the sight of this heart-rending spectacle. The Govt. will have to evolve some rigorous strategy to punish the people of educational department with such a criminal mentality and extricate the system from the shackles of this miasmic culture otherwise we will keep on struggling with the educational backwardness even in the wake of 21st century doing nothing for the nation-the nation that is dependant on the shoulders of these youngsters for her respectable survival. All the conscientious lot of the society particularly the parents of the students, who are the Scape-goats at the hands of such a clay-brained component of the teaching system, have to come forward to behead the demon of this Copy-culture.

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