Mainstream WeeklyCheating and plagiarism are already widespread in India’s higher education sector. AI tools are making the problem worse but could also make things better.
In June 2024, a video clip of mass cheating during MA and MBA exams [1] conducted by the Indira Gandhi National Open University in Bihar raised serious questions about the state’s education system.
It’s the latest in a string of such incidents in Bihar.
In February 2023, a video clip [2] surfaced in Bihar’s Samastipur district, which showed family members of Class X students passing chits to their wards through window grills and telling or showing them answers to questions at an examination centre.
Five years before this video went viral, young men, again in Bihar, were photographed [3] climbing up buildings and passing handwritten chits to students so they could cheat during an exam.
Regrettably, such instances of traditional forms of cheating regularly occur in states such as Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
This is due to a combination of reasons [4]