Computer-assisted exams in 5 years, but it won't prevent cheating

By 2010 the Civil Service Commission (CSC) expects to complete the transition of administering examinations from pen-and-paper to computers. CSC chairman Karina David, however, admitted she’s wary of syndicates that help some civil service examinees cheat in the exams. “Ultimately, in the next five years, we hope to make all our civil service examinations computer-assisted," David said. Still she admitted that not even computerizing the examinations can deter some syndicates from encouraging cheating. She said there are some applicants who enter the CSC offices daily to take the “walk-in exams." “We thought at first that it would be easier to cheat the pen-and-paper exams than the computer exams. It turns out that the syndicates found a way to go around it," she said. David said one of the CSC’s biggest headaches is the review centers, with many of its personnel stealing the content of CSC’s exams. She said they have gone to the extent of going to the printing presses where the exams are printed. David said cheating continues to take place in all regions, but it is more rampant in Regions 5, 10, Metro Manila, and the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. – GMANews.TV