Are exams a waste of time? Students searching for success are being tricked online. But some think exam results should not matter anyway.
Fake GCSE papers for sale in TikTok scam
Are exams a waste of time? Students searching for success are being tricked online. But some think exam results should not matter anyway.
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Donna could not sleep. She was worrying about tomorrow's exam. But on TikTok, somebody was offering to help her. If she paid £20, they said, they would send her a copy of the exam paper.
But when she paid, the exam never came. It was a scamA dishonest way of making money, involving tricking people. . Some people have lost a lot of money - one criminal even asked for £4,000 for copies of GCSEThe national exams taken by 15 and 16-year-olds in parts of the UK. and A-levelThe national exams taken by 17 and 18-year-olds in parts of the UK. A-level grades are used to determine university places. exams.
Donna was never sent an exam paper. But some criminals do send papers - just not the right ones. They simply take an old paper and change the date on the front cover.
Many students say they are worried about exams this year. The Covid-19The official scientific name for the type of coronavirus that swept the world from March 2020. pandemic means that lots of teenagers have never sat an exam before, so they are feeling extra nervousWorried or anxious about something that is about to happen. .
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But anyone caught cheating can be stopped from sitting any exams at all.
Now, some say exams might not be a good idea at all. Some say they are more of a test of memory than anything else. When people are stressed, they do not remember everything they know.
Others say that exams actually makes students' education worse. Teachers are more focused on grades than teaching their students how to think and solve problems.
But some people say exams are needed because course workWork done over a long period of time that counts towards student's final grade. cannot be trusted. It is too easy for students to copy answers from the internet or get help from other people.
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Yes! They show you what a student has in their head on one day, rather what they can do over a long time.
No! There are many stressful parts of life. Exams are a good way of preparing for them. And it is the only way to test what people have learnt without too much cheating.
Scam - A dishonest way of making money, involving tricking people.
GCSE - The national exams taken by 15 and 16-year-olds in parts of the UK.
A-level - The national exams taken by 17 and 18-year-olds in parts of the UK. A-level grades are used to determine university places.
Covid-19 - The official scientific name for the type of coronavirus that swept the world from March 2020.
Nervous - Worried or anxious about something that is about to happen.
Course work - Work done over a long period of time that counts towards student's final grade.
Fake GCSE papers for sale in TikTok scam

Glossary
Scam - A dishonest way of making money, involving tricking people.
GCSE - The national exams taken by 15 and 16-year-olds in parts of the UK.
A-level - The national exams taken by 17 and 18-year-olds in parts of the UK. A-level grades are used to determine university places.
Covid-19 - The official scientific name for the type of coronavirus that swept the world from March 2020.
Nervous - Worried or anxious about something that is about to happen.
Course work - Work done over a long period of time that counts towards student's final grade.