Taking the Exams with Integrity

2015-12-15

Hunan Daily on July 8th (by the reporter Yu Rong and the correspondent Chao Jinwen)

The freshman Sun Zhaoyi in the Law School, Hunan University of Commerce, “tasted the fresh food” in the final exams at the end of the semester in July, 2015. She and her classmates took the first “Exam with Integrity” organized by the university. Walking out of the classroom, she thought her greatest experience was that “the efficiency of answering the questions was higher than at ordinary times”, without the teachers’ monitoring.

This year, forty-eight exams were organized by the university for students from twelve classes to experiment the “Exam with Integrity”, in which there was no invigilator, except a teacher who handed out the exam papers. By doing so, the university aimed at strengthening the students’ consciousness of integrity.

The students who volunteer to take the “Exams with Integrity” must sign up a letter of commitment for the exams at the class meeting before the exams. The whole class would get awarded marks in such activities as the comprehensive appraisals and evaluations, advanced classes and outstanding individuals, if they keep their promise in the exams. If any one of the students cheats in the exams, then the whole class would have no qualifications to take the “Exam with Integrity” any more, and would get deduction of their marks.    　

Sun Zhaoyi told the reporters that “some students would rather leave those test questions which they didn’t know how to answer and take the risk of failing in the exams than to cheat in the exams and to blacken the honor of the whole class”.