Today is my second day at exam: Histology Technical Practicum. It seem like to be so very easy to do because there are corruptions happen before and during the exam process. Almost students pay US$20 to an 'Extra course' conducted by the prof. It also happened last year. By the way, that course lasted as short as two sessions with a summary of 2 hours that leaved the students 53 Q&A and a bunch of schema papers. Can you imagine how much you can learn in 2 hours? Of course, this is not really a course. In the histology area, there are two categories, one is theory studies and the other is technical practicum. In theory studies, there are 4 teachers to teach. So in exam, there are questions from all the 4 prof. But for practicum, one prof ruled who also teachs theory. That is the one who commit corruption.
The histology technical practicum exam is consisted of peeping through the microscope and draw a schema of what it is on the lame.
All schemas were distributed exclusively to every students who pay extracourse. As the exam started, you can bring whatever you want into your room (but not so public). Then you would have told to draw a lotto that will tell you which microscope you have to peep through. After that, you will be in a new room with 30 microscopes but just to wait the previous students to finish their works. While you wait for your turn, you will be told which will you see in the microscope so you don't even need to give a second peeping the microscope. So why do you have to peep through the microscope in the class? But this is just the first stage.
Then, when your turn comes, you will have to draw a schema. But that is really easy since you have all the schemas that the prof gives. You just need to copy it. Or if you were very dump, you could bring out your papers and copy them to your work. Then 15 minutes countdown alarm will ring. It is enough long for you when you really give no effort on exam. You will have as much as 13 minutes free in the exam class if you got the easiest one. So I think nobody is gonna fail.
Honestly, I also pay for that. But, tragedically, 90% pay excepts for those who really cannot afford to but if they can, they will for sure.
Not just this year but every year. Although, this year is exceptionally very easy. Last year, you could not known what you would see in the microscope untill you sit in the chair looking trough it. But then, someone will come and take a look at your microscope and tell you what it is to draw as he knows that you pay.
In another case, the theory exam of that prof will be quite much easy since you got all the questions along with the answers to you. So what you need to do is to put your effort on the other 3 prof.
All in all, the corruptions happens everywhere in the education system in cambodia but, by the way, just a matter of how much. In University of Health Sciences, it seem that a really tiny amount of corruptions take place compared to other colleges. This corruption may not happen during the other exam days but corruption still existed anyway.
