More than 60,000 children were given the wrong grade in A levels, GCSEs and key stage tests last summer but this was exposed only after schools and parents lodged more than 350,000 appeals.Half of papers were marked inaccurately in some subjects, according to a report from the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), with the number of challenges made to last summer’s exam and test results double that of the year before.
Chaotic attempts to mark the key stage tests (formerly known as SATs) taken by children at 11 and 14 delayed the results for more than a million children by at least a month.In addition to the delays many schools received boxes of unmarked scripts, some were given results intended for different schools and others found that similar papers had been marked with wildly varying grades.

Cheating at exams is becoming more and more popular amongst student. A recent study conducted revealed that 2.5/4 of all students cheat at some point in there academics. As technology is becoming essential part of our lives, it has also impacted on the ways student cheat in exams. So these students are using different gadgets for doing so. Some of popular technological ways students adopting these days are sending text and photos. Some of instructors taking steps to stop these kind of activities thus they clearly convey the message of n’t using cell phones during exams. A C-Guard can be used for stoping these activities.
iPod invention had made it more simpler as Sparknotes are publishing there notes in a format that can be opened in iPod thus helping the students to carry on these kind of activities. Well most of the universities have clear code of conduct against these type of incidents like automatic failure. So the cheating process is becoming more and more easy with the tech inventions. The question whether some one should adopt these kind of geeky ways to get away in exams or not. So come up with your replies.

Doing a PhD should be fun, rewarding and be seen as a privilege. It's the only time in your life that you can spend 100% of your working time learning to do research, finding out new things, having freedom to pursue new areas and getting paid for it, without any administrative or other responsibilities. Those who stick it out do so because, despite the relatively poor pay, long hours and lack of security, it is all we want to do because of the intellectual satisfaction it brings, the excitement of discovery, the freedom to make your own work schedule, the opportunities for travel, the pleasure of being in an international community of like-minded people and (for some people) the possibility that we might actually help the human condition!

1. Choose a supervisor whose work you admire (find out first what work they have done and are doing, and search PubMed to see how productive they are!), located in a department or institute with good infrastructure (equipment, patient samples, seminar series etc), and who has enough grant funding not to limit your project too much.

2. Get involved and take responsibility for your project. T

3. Work hard. Don’t think you can get away with a 38-hour week. You will need to work long days all week, and for part of most weekends.

4. Read the literature, both in your immediate area, and around it; both the current and the past. You can’t possibly make original contributions to the literature unless you know what is already in there.

5. Plan your days and weeks very carefully. I

6. Be creative. Think, think, and think some more about what you are doing, and why, and whether there are better ways to go. Don’t just see your PhD as a road map laid out by your supervisor.

9. Be proactive, not reactive, in your approach to research. Seek information and advice, and don’t assume that it will just diffuse into your head.

10. Go to as many seminars as you can and all of them in your general area. But don’t just sit at the back like a sponge, or fall asleep; sit up the front and ask questions of the speaker in question time, or afterwards, and of your supervisor and others in the lab.