Following the official release by the Cameroon General Certificate of Examination Board of the 2012 results for both the Ordinary and Advanced Level Exams on Tuesday July 31, some students and officials who took part in this year's session though out the national territory
are facing several sanctions levied by the Board in relation to examination malpractices.
For the Advanced Level, a total of 53 students have been sanctioned for varying reasons. The South West Region registered 27 sanctioned candidates, followed by the North West Region with 20 penalties, while Centre and Littoral Regions registered two and four fraudulent cases, respectively. Exhibits withheld by the Board show that these students were involved one or more misconducts amongst which were collusion, having two birth dates, fraudulent documents, pre-prepared material, attempting to incite other candidates to rebellion, insubordination and the use of obscene language.
Consequently, they faced penalties such as Subject Result Cancelled (SRC) as well as bans ranging from one to three years from GCE Board exams and activities. The Ordinary Level recorded the greater bulk of malpractices, which also met with sanctions from the Board.
Concerning the Technical Advanced and Ordinary Levels, 23 sanctions were recorded. Similarly, the reasons being cheating, stealing, impersonation and collusion.
Apart from students, some exam officials are equally gnashing their teeth because of fraud and professional misconduct. They include the Chief of Centre, Government Technical High School Alou (Lebialem Division of the South West) who will serve a three-year ban because of late start of three subjects during the May-June 2012 written session; while the names of two officials from Bilingual Grammar School Molyko-Buea Marking Centre equally feature on the list for fraud. One is to serve a three-year ban, while the other has been banned indefinitely from GCE Board activities. His motive: changing eight (08) marks out of 14 on the examiner's sheet, in favour of students.
