CAMBODIA 2009 - Through my work place's window, I watched out to see crowd of students and their relative leaving the school gate to home or maybe party. It was time to finish the high school exam, one interesting exam in Cambodia of all lives and they are just waiting the result by 21st of August as well.
During the exam days, it was so silence outside each school I passed by, my wondered questions came out from my mind if the exam fair enough? I still keep to find out the bad points of such exam because it doesn't mean that if most of the students pass exam with most good score will show that the exam was fair but the atmosphere during the exam will show one part among big mistakes.
What I found out, the exam was faced new challenge with technology. Some students using mobile phones to call or MMS the exam to outside and got result through calling or MMS back. I got knowing this through one person who has a relative did the exam said that she gave two expensive mobile phones to her brother in order to send MMS outside and got back. Some groups of students also said they got call from students from exam room to ask help solving their exercises and answer to them.
So from this point of view, I feel very ashame to such activity that the controllers could not deal. These info just got from what I had seen and heard, I would see what will the press in Cambodia say about the exam, what will the ministry evaluate the result with a reasonable in the fact we found out? During the correction will there have any bribe, little or much?
After the result announces, I'll keep asking those questions to the students to findout if what I heard and saw during these days happen every where in Cambodia or not.
