article_snippet: Blatant cases include staff suggesting the correct answers to pupils during exams, scribbling pupils during exams in pencil on completed coursework so that pupils can then write over pupils in pen, and whispering to candidates in spoken language tests.
article_snippet: A timetable clash that meant several candidates sat an A-level English Literature paper in the morning when it was officially scheduled for the afternoon, allowing a teacher to enter the exam hall, look at an A-level English Literature paper and pass information to candidates taking the test later; .
article_snippet: - A member of staff who was in the exam room during a GCSE Geography paper suggesting possible answers to pupils when pupils raised pupils hands; .
article_snippet: - A number of candidates who admitted they had been given information about a confidential GCSE English question papers by the head of the exam centre; .
article_snippet: A teacher who had made additions in pencil to a number of supposedly completed 'high level, controlled' science assessments and returned the answers to the pupils so the pupils could make corrections, which the pupils did in different coloured pens;
article_snippet: - A teacher conducting a GCSE Italian speaking test who was heard on the official recording whispering words in Italian to the candidate and, presumably in an attempt to hide the cheating, pausing the recorder a number of times, in breach of the rules.
article_snippet: Blatant cases include staff suggesting the correct answers to pupils during exams and scribbling Blatant cases in pencil on completed coursework so that pupils can then write over pupils in pen .
article_snippet: Neither the JCQ nor the exam boards were prepared to give further details about the examples yesterday, but the report did record the penalties meted out to the guilty teachers – usually a ban from involvement with exam papers, or access to exam rooms for between two and five years.
article_snippet: Showing how widespread the problem is, schools recently investigated include St John's in Marlborough, Wiltshire, where a teacher was said to have briefed pupils during what should have been a silent coursework assessment, and Small Heath primary in Birmingham, where a now former head changed pupils' SATs papers to improve pupils' results.
highlights_snippet: Cases include staff suggesting right answers to pupils during exams .
  
highlights_snippet: Also scribbled in pencil on coursework so pupils can write over it in pen .
  