Egypt’s Ministry of Education identifies student responsible for copying physics exam

  • Date: 12-Jul-2020
  • Source: Egypt Independent
  • Sector:Education
  • Country:Egypt
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Egypt’s Ministry of Education identifies student responsible for copying physics exam

The Egyptian Ministry of Education's online fraud team on Sunday identified the student responsible for copying questions from the Thanaweya Amma physics exam and uploading them on social media.

The team is also checking the identity of another student accused of uploading the chemistry exam's questions on social media, one hour into the exam.

The ministry's operation chamber is verifying the copies, and aims to take legal action against the student based on Egypt's prevention of fraud act.

The Egyptian parliament's Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee on June 28 approved a draft law submitted by the government on combating exam violations.

The law increase the penalties for printing, publishing, broadcasting, and promoting, by any means, exam questions and their answers, or any evaluation systems in different education stages, Egyptian and foreign, with the intention of cheating or disturbing the general examination system.

It sets a penalty of imprisonment not less than two years, and seven years at maximum, as well as a fine of no less than LE100,000 and at maximum LE200,000.

Any attempts to perform these acts will be met with a one-year imprisonment and/or a fine of no less than LE10,000 and LE50,000 at maximum.

A student caught cheating or attempting to cheat will be