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We are bigger cheats than we think: iLIVE

16 August 2012 - 02:49

By RSA Teacher, by e-mail

Pupils read from photocopies at Rutandale Primary School in Thohoyandou, Limpopo, in this file photo from 2012 because their textbooks had not been delivered halfway into the year.

Image: LAUREN MULLIGAN Pupils read from photocopies at Rutandale Primary School in Thohoyandou, Limpopo, in this file photo from 2012 because their textbooks had not been delivered halfway into the year.

"We're all liars and cheats - that's the truth" (August 14) says: "On average people got four out of 20 questions correct when the papers were marked by someone else.

"However, when the participants were allowed to mark their papers themselves, [they got] six right. Virtually everyone cheated but only by a small margin."

Small margin? It's a 50% increase.

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