The basic reason cheating is happening is that the students have no clue as to what will be asked in the examination. The teachers who teach never teach "inductive reasoning - forming a thoeory from observation " as opposed to typical "deductive reasoning - from theory end up with examples". Indian teaching following the British education system teaches only to memorize and pass the examination and not to think. Lord McCauley destroyed our system of education and thereby made us the slaves of British Raj. The second reason is, students don't understand that Education is for understanding the world around us to survive and not for jobs. Jobs need skill sets which you learn from community service from childhood - being humble, be on time, be helpful, do the duty, ask for help, help others, be part of ateam but also lead when necessary-- which is mental and intellectual skills. Now, if you ignore the law of physics say gravity, if you do not put a ladder on a solid ground at 45 degree angle resting on a solid surface,when you climb your center of gravity will fall out side the center of gravity of the ladder, thus will fall down backward cracking your head. If you do not understand Right angled Triangle and if a staircase is built, the force you need to climb overcoming the gravity will force you have much higher energy or force, Thus, the Right angled Triangles's scalar length from the base to the wall and the angle (theta) at which the hypotenus - the staircase slope both needs to be correct . This is what is trigonometry( triangle plus direction angle theta). Thus, the education has not been taught with real life example and just regurgitated. Not understanding leads to memorization which leads to fear leading to copying. What is the solution? Say for example, one learns three chapters. At most (maximum) one can ask 100 questions in total for those three chapters. If conceptual understanding is there, in general, one can answer any question without resorting to copying. But this is a dream in India. Is is practical? Yes! one IIT Kanpour professor in the USA had successfully implemented student participation in the preparation of examination with 10% he controlled asking applied questions which needs deep thinking.
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