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A 52-YEAR-OLD FRENCH woman faces prosecution after being caught trying to sit a baccalaureate English exam in place of her daughter.
Kitted out in typical teenage attire including Converse trainers and low-waisted skinny jeans, the woman made it into the exam hall at a Paris high-school on Wednesday.
But despite the disguise, an exam supervisor who had overseen the 19-year-old daughter when she sat her philosophy paper earlier in the week soon realised she was an imposter and alerted the principal.
Police were called and the woman now faces fraud charges. The consequences for her daughter could be more serious as she could be banned from taking public exams for five years.
Introduced by Napoleon in 1808, the multi-subject baccalaureate is the main school-leaving exam in France and has to be passed by students wishing to go to university.
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Poor kid, imagine the pressure at home to be perfect.even lie to do it! Fubar
Where u get that idea? Could have been that the daughter didn’t want to do the exam and the mother went instead so that the daughter wouldn’t waste her chance…
Read again what ya just wrote tom!
It’s not cheating unless you get caught :)
Go job bob! I’m bob too! We are bobs
I used to be bob.
Not getting your point… But my point is in no place in the article does it say the reason that the woman did this, your assuming that the daughter was pressured to be perfect I’m simply pointing out that there could be an alternative reason so we shouldn’t jump to conclusions on things we don’t know the full story of.
So u think the mother took the exam to give her daughter more options. And after they sat down they would discuss these after? Maybe, but unfortunately if it swims like a duck…etc.
Imagine having the confidence to pass as your teenage daughter *sigh* won’t happen in this house lol
Hey Barbara, if you wore that blue cardigan again you’d pass ;-)
Many’s a 52 year-old French woman would pass the test for me…
Im guessing the teenage skinny jeans blew her cover…as well a a few buttons!!
Ah ha ha, you foolish woman. I ‘d imagine cheating is quite handy these days with smartphone s. in my day I had to stick my notes down my tube socks and use the lav s a few times.
Phones are banned in exam halls in most colleges now.
Cheating is banned too Darragh, doesn’t mean its impossible ;)
Scan Coke/Lucozade/Sports Drink label, open scaned image in Photoshop, replace original text with cheat sheet, print. Glue to corresponding bottle. Simples…..
The mother dressed as a teenager by wearing converse… is it only teenagers that wear them?? how old is to old for converse? ??
What a mum she’s cool
Are we sure this wasn’t Robert’s Ma?
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