What is the aim of teaching English as a foreign language? And what is the aim of exams? Like last year, students this year are challenging the authorities in Egypt by posting the exams online, just after the exams start, and leaking answers during the exams. One believes that the aim of leaking exams is not cheating, but rather challenging the educational system to show how unintelligent it is. The admin of the page that posts leaked exams on Facebook said that it was a challenge for them to keep posting exams. They also warned the Ministry of Education that they would continue to do so if no action was taken to better the educational system. People might have different opinions towards such actions, but little will disagree that the Egyptian educational system is not successful and needs a lot of reform. As a teacher of English, I was really astonished by the level of the English exam on June 10th, 2014. It was the Final English Exam for third Secondary students, and there was a question that I called “silly and stupid”. Find the mistake and correct it: “The…
