Students Face Pat-Downs at National Exams
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Students Face Pat-Downs at National Exams
Students Face Pat-Downs at National Exams
by Janelle Retka and Phan Soumy | August 23, 2016 | អានជាភាសាខ្មែរ
Waiting in the courtyard of Phnom Penh’s Sisowath High School, 18-year-old Yang Poumony smiled as she clutched her pencil bag early on Monday morning, counting the minutes until the start of the national high school exam.
“It’s very nerve-wracking and also exciting,” she said.
A student takes the national high school completion exam at Sisowath High School in Phnom Penh on Monday morning. (Siv Channa/The Cambodia Daily)
The two-day exam that determines university eligibility is high stakes for the 93,752 students registered to take it. Following a 2014 reform to overhaul a faltering education system, it’s also taking place amid heightened security.
Students entering the testing grounds are patted down in search of smartphones, cheat sheets or calculators, in stark contrast to years past in which answer sheets could be bought and proctors could be paid to turn a blind eye.
In the first year, the passing rate fell to 41 percent, confounding students, parents and teachers. But an increase in the success rate to 56 percent last year was widely seen as an example of students and teachers making the necessary improvements.
Knowing she could only count on herself, Ms. Poumony said she studied from morning to night in preparation for the exam, unlike her older sister, who took the exam a year ahead of the crackdown.
“It still had corruption, so she easily passed it,” she said. “I think it’s a bit unfair, but if I can pass this test, I know I’m quality enough to be in society. So I don’t think I’m jealous of her.”
Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron, who oversaw the exam’s reform, told a reporter at the high school that even students who fail this year’s exam “deserve to get praise.”
“I think this year, we can say the students are much better than last year,” he said, citing the absence of “big bags” that had been used in past years to smuggle in cheat sheets. “This year, we have not seen that.”
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by Janelle Retka and Phan Soumy | August 23, 2016 | អានជាភាសាខ្មែរ
Waiting in the courtyard of Phnom Penh’s Sisowath High School, 18-year-old Yang Poumony smiled as she clutched her pencil bag early on Monday morning, counting the minutes until the start of the national high school exam.
“It’s very nerve-wracking and also exciting,” she said.
A student takes the national high school completion exam at Sisowath High School in Phnom Penh on Monday morning. (Siv Channa/The Cambodia Daily)
The two-day exam that determines university eligibility is high stakes for the 93,752 students registered to take it. Following a 2014 reform to overhaul a faltering education system, it’s also taking place amid heightened security.
Students entering the testing grounds are patted down in search of smartphones, cheat sheets or calculators, in stark contrast to years past in which answer sheets could be bought and proctors could be paid to turn a blind eye.
In the first year, the passing rate fell to 41 percent, confounding students, parents and teachers. But an increase in the success rate to 56 percent last year was widely seen as an example of students and teachers making the necessary improvements.
Knowing she could only count on herself, Ms. Poumony said she studied from morning to night in preparation for the exam, unlike her older sister, who took the exam a year ahead of the crackdown.
“It still had corruption, so she easily passed it,” she said. “I think it’s a bit unfair, but if I can pass this test, I know I’m quality enough to be in society. So I don’t think I’m jealous of her.”
Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron, who oversaw the exam’s reform, told a reporter at the high school that even students who fail this year’s exam “deserve to get praise.”
“I think this year, we can say the students are much better than last year,” he said, citing the absence of “big bags” that had been used in past years to smuggle in cheat sheets. “This year, we have not seen that.”
full-story....https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/stud ... ms-117035/
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Re: Students Face Pat-Downs at National Exams
they finally realised that a corrupted education system does no good for everyone
Money is not the problem, the problem is no money
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