Mumbai: Over half the students admit to cheating at IIT-B

01 September,2016 08:01 AM IST |   |  Pallavi Smart

If you thought only the most dedicated students got into the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B), it might shock you to learn that students here are also known to slack off


If you thought only the most dedicated students got into the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B), it might shock you to learn that students here are also known to slack off.

As many as 56% of the students admitted that they had resorted to cheating for better grades, stated a survey of fresh IIT-B graduates, carried out by the institute's student media body - ‘IITB Insight'. "As the respondents could remain anonymous, we feel the responses are honest and depict the real picture," said Shreeyesh Menon, chief editor of Insight.

Given a chance, 11% of the students would never want to attend lectures, they said, while 32.5% said they would want to attend only before exams. About 38% of the graduates admitted that they would resort to malpractices as they were not interested in the course, while 18% said they thought twice before cheating but did it anyway. However, most of them expressed that they cheated only in assignments and not in exams.

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