The head of the police’s Property Crime Unit, Chief Inspector Mohamed Jamsheed, has claimed that an investigation into the conduct of a Cambridge Mathematics examination taken last year at a Shaviyani Atoll school concluded that an invigilator had assisted students with their papers.
The examination process at Milandhoo school was subjected to a police investigation after the University of Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) awarding body annulled the grades of mathematics students in the island.
”Most of the students have confessed that they copied with the help of this invigilator, who told them the answer for the last question in the paper,” said Jamsheed.
The answer given to the question by all students in the Milandhoo School Hall was consistent but wrong, which made the CIE markers raise concern.
One person from the island whose name cannot be yet disclosed was arrested and is still in pre-trial detention, said Jamsheed adding that some of the students in the island had denied the allegations of copying.
Three exam monitors at Milandhoo School were suspended after the issue was handed over to police.
A student who sat for the examinations told local newspaper Haveeru that the students “were tricked as someone changed the contents of the papers [after completion].”
Milandhoo school was ranked second in the Maldives last year in terms of the strength of its O’Level exam results.
Deputy Education Minister Dr Abdulla Nazeer said earlier this week that the affected students were expected to be able to resit “the next available exam”. “I don’t think there are any restrictions,” he said.
Nazeer added that the Education Ministry had pledged to investigate the matter “as thoroughly as possible”, and take action if malpractice was identified.
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