India Cheating Scandal: 600 Students Expelled at Bihar Schools
More than 600 students have been expelled from school in India amid widespread cheating — with some
having friends scale the walls of exam centers to pass notes through windows, officials said Friday. The
students were among more than 1.4 million high school students taking their 10th grade school finals in
the eastern state of Bihar. Many of those caught cheating had smuggled textbooks or scraps of paper to
be used for cheating, police and education officials said. Friends, parents and other relatives of the teenagers
were seen climbing the sides of some exam centers on Wednesday and Thursday as they tried to
reach the windows of the classrooms where the students were taking their exams. They appeared to be
trying to pass on cheat sheets with answers written on them. Bihar's education minister, P K Shahi, said
the scale of the cheating made it impossible for officials alone to contain and that families should help.
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According to the text, choose the alternative which shows the CORRECT sequence of T (true) or F (false).
I. 600 students quit school.
II. Families tried to help the students to cheat.
III. In the education minister’s perspective, it turned out to be ok the families’ help.
IV. At least 1.4 million students were taking the test.
V. They took this test because they did not have good grades during the semester.
India Cheating Scandal: 600 Students Expelled at Bihar Schools
More than 600 students have been expelled from school in India amid widespread cheating — with some having friends scale the walls of exam centers to pass notes through windows, officials said Friday. The students were among more than 1.4 million high school students taking their 10th grade school finals in the eastern state of Bihar. Many of those caught cheating had smuggled textbooks or scraps of paper to be used for cheating, police and education officials said. Friends, parents and other relatives of the teenagers were seen climbing the sides of some exam centers on Wednesday and Thursday as they tried to reach the windows of the classrooms where the students were taking their exams. They appeared to be trying to pass on cheat sheets with answers written on them. Bihar's education minister, P K Shahi, said the scale of the cheating made it impossible for officials alone to contain and that families should help.
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Resposta correta: alternativa D
Tema central: interpretação de texto (reading comprehension). A questão exige distinguir informação explícita do texto (fatos declarados) de inferências indevidas e diferenças de sentido entre palavras próximas (ex.: expelled ≠ quit).
Resumo teórico rápido: em questões de T/F, verifique:
- Palavras-chave (números, verbos, pronomes, negações).
- Sentido literal x inferência — só marque T se o enunciado estiver claramente sustentado pelo texto.
- Precisão lexical — sinônimos nem sempre equivalem (ex.: expelled = expulsos; quit = desistiram/saíram voluntariamente).
Justificativa detalhada (enunciados I–V):
- I. 600 students quit school. — Falso. O texto afirma que mais de 600 alunos foram expelled (expulsos) por cola. “Expelled” indica remoção pela escola, não que os alunos “quit” (saíram por vontade própria).
- II. Families tried to help the students to cheat. — Verdadeiro. O texto descreve pais, parentes e amigos escalando muros e tentando passar folhas com respostas às janelas — ação para auxiliar a cola.
- III. In the education minister’s perspective, it turned out to be ok the families’ help. — Verdadeiro. O ministro disse que a escala do problema era grande demais para as autoridades sozinhas e que as famílias deveriam ajudar — ou seja, ele aprovou envolvimento das famílias (no sentido de colaborar na contenção do problema, conforme o contexto textual).
- IV. At least 1.4 million students were taking the test. — Verdadeiro. O texto menciona mais de 1.4 million students fazendo as provas do 10th grade.
- V. They took this test because they did not have good grades during the semester. — Falso. Não há no texto qualquer afirmação de que o motivo de fazer a prova fosse desempenho ruim no semestre; trata-se de prova final de 10th grade (rotina escolar), não causalidade indicada.
Por que as outras alternativas estão erradas (síntese): cada uma apresenta pelo menos um dos cinco itens com valor T/F contrário ao texto — por exemplo, A e C começam com F mas divergem nos itens II–IV; E afirma que I e II são verdadeiros, o que contradiz I.
Dica prática: sublinhe números e verbos nos enunciados e compare palavra a palavra com o texto. Pergunte-se: “isso está dito explicitamente?” Se não, não marque T.
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