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Baccalaureate cheating has become a widespread practice. The majority of fraud cases recorded in previous years involved the mobile phone. This year, metal detectors will be used to thwart fraudsters. Training days on their use are scheduled by education departments, in coordination with security services, starting this week.
Achieving zero cases of cheating in official exams and ensuring that they take place peacefully and without pitfalls, this is the goal expected by the Ministry of National Education. This year again, drastic measures will be taken to limit the phenomenon
For candidates who may be tempted to cheat during this exam, Abdelhakim Belabed’s department insists and reminds of the sanctions that will be imposed on them. Indeed, cheating during official exams can now land you in prison. Fraud during official tests has been punishable, since April 2020, by a prison sentence of, according to the Ministry of Justice, up to 15 years, accompanied by a fine.
Before getting there, the Ministry of National Education intends to deter cheaters and, for this, metal detectors will be used more widely in exam centers. To this end, education directorates across the national territory, in coordination with security services, will schedule, starting this week, training days for the benefit of their employees on the use of metal detectors, and this in anticipation of the baccalaureate examination June 2024 session.
These detectors are planned, this year, at the examination centers, in order to thwart any attempt to introduce any electronic device, such as smartphones and smart watches into the examination rooms, in order to achieve the objective desired and to continue efforts aimed at combating the phenomenon of leaking topics on social networks.
For those responsible for the sector, the use of this system will effectively contribute to putting an end to the phenomenon of subjects leaking onto social networks after their distribution to candidates in examination rooms, knowing that previous field surveys have revealed the involvement of examiners and even certain supervisors who publish the subjects on social networks, particularly on Facebook. The aim is to obtain answers from outside the examination centers and, in other cases, to disrupt the smooth running of the tests.
In this context, education departments claimed to have completed the process of training their employees on the use of metal detectors last week, thus moving on to the penultimate touches for the preparation of the two exams.
Heavy penalties for cheaters
Exam cheating can have serious consequences. Indeed, any person who makes public or discloses the subjects or answers of official school examinations, whether before or during the tests, will be liable to a prison sentence of one to three years and a fine. ranging from 10 to 30 million cents.
Individuals involved in leaking or publishing topics or answers belonging to persons responsible for preparing and organizing official examinations will be subject to a prison sentence of 5 to 10 years, accompanied by a fine of 50 at 100 million cents.
In this regard, the Minister of National Education, Abdelhakim Belabed, pledged to apply the law against fraudsters and subject publishers.
It should be noted that the Ministry of Justice has recently taken, in coordination with the sectors concerned, a series of proactive measures to prevent and combat fraud and leakage of subjects of the official exams scheduled for this June, indicated last Sunday a press release from this ministerial department.
As such, a monitoring and monitoring unit has been set up at each court, under the chairmanship of the Attorney General. The cell also includes as members the director of education, the head of wilaya security, the commander of the territorial group of the National Gendarmerie, the head of the regional internal security service.
This operation aims, according to the ministry, to guarantee the credibility of the exams and preserve the future of students, particularly those who are candidates for decisive exams. The general public prosecutor’s offices will seek heavy penalties against people involved in cases affecting the integrity of the exams.
It should be remembered that more than 1.5 million candidates are registered for the Brevet de l’enseignement supérieur and the baccalaureate exams for the June 2024 session at the national level.
Minister Abdelhakim Belabed announced, during a national meeting on preparations for national school exams, that the number of registered candidates is 818,439 for the BEM, scheduled for June 3 to 5, and 862,733 for the baccalaureate. , scheduled for June 9 to 13. In this regard, he specified that 2,327 candidates with specific needs were identified, including 1,356 for the BEM and 971 for the baccalaureate.
All organizational, human and material measures have been taken to ensure the “smooth running” of the tests, including the establishment of a monitoring system at several levels, in order to guarantee maximum rigor.
Regarding the subjects of the exams, the minister assured that they will be within the reach of the student who has regularly followed his courses until the end of the third quarter of the school year, specifying that the subjects will concern the courses provided to students in person and that all educational establishments will remain open to candidates to collectively revise and prepare properly for these tests.