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this article is about a phenomenon which threatens the integrity of the educational evaluation, mainly the national examinations, such as Baccalaureate and BEM. We found that the majority of the researches agreed that the main causes of cheating in exams are: hard courses, hard exams, time pressure, improving one’s chances, and fear of failure. Whereas the reasons which make the learners do not cheat: religious beliefs, moral values and fear from sanctions. After that I set the methods used by cheaters, all those techniques can be divided into two main groups: classical methods and methods based on technology. Finally, I tried to give solutions to the problem; good arrangement of the exam rooms, avoiding questions which make cheating easier like multiple choice questions, reinforcing the religious and moral values in the curriculums. Nowadays, cheating has become a serious problem in our schools, and mainly with the emergence of new means of communication, and the growth that witnessed in the last decades. In fact, the Internet and social media facilitated the cheaters’ task, and created a new kind of problems which need creative solutions. These factors pose a serious trouble that we should confront on both educational and technological sides. When I was looking for literature review to my article, I found that cheating in exams in not related to undeveloped countries; since even advanced countries are suffering from this phenomenon as well; learners cheat in Malian schools, and they do in British ones too.
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