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as exam-room cheating. The statistical findings show that between 3-5% of exam
candidates are likely to be cheating with almost none of these pupils being caught.
A recent trend has been for more friends, helping their peers to see questions in
advance. This has been prompted by increasingly high demands on the learners to
perform well. If the supervision in exam rooms becomes lax, cheating is always on
the rise. Cheating appears to be a global phenomenon with little cultural variation.
Originally it was thought that cheating was more typical for the so called "face-saving"
cultures where the observable behaviour is not the same as unobserved actions.
Wherever the stakes are high and there is an advantage and an opportunity to cheat,
it seems to happen everywhere. Highly industrialised and poor nations think alike.