Lookatvietnam – As more and more Vietnamese students prefer pleasure to work, they have to hire other students to learn for them. The services of doing home exercises and essays for others, therefore, have been developing well.

Doing exercises

“I did not do the drawing. I asked a friend of mine to do the exercise, and I had to pay him VND 30,000,” Tung said honestly.

He added that previously, his friend just helped him with the exercises free of charge. However, as there have been more and more exercises, Tung now has to pay for the work.

As such, Tung just has to spend money to learn and pass the subject of technical drawing. “VND 20,000 and more for home exercises, and VND 10,000 for class exercises,” Tung said.

Tung is not the only student, who hires others students to learn for them. A lot of students have been relying on ‘services’ to follow their training courses. A lot of students especially hire people to go to class for them. The duty of the people is just saying ‘yes’ when lecturers take roll-call.

Ha Van Dao, Nguyen Binh Nguyen, and Le Trung Tuan, students of Hong Bang University also related that they had to prepare a presentation for their political economy class. They heard that some members of the class could ‘provide services’ of making slides with PowerPoint and decided to hire the members to do the presentations for them.

“It cost VND 100,000,” Nguyen said.

“We always played truant, so we did not know what to do with the presentation. As this is a very important exercise, we had to spend VND 100,000 to get good marks,” he added.

At first, the service providers just required cups of coffee or meals for the help, but then they set higher requirements, and even money in return for the services.

“I have to spend a lot of time and effort to do exercises for them. They are too lazy to do their homework so they get their just deserts,” said Nguyen Tuan Anh, a student of Hong Bang University, one of the ‘service providers.’

Anh revealed that he could earn a lot of money a month, as there are too many ‘orders’ from lazy students.

Tuyet Han, a student from Ton Duc Thang, also said that the lazy students have to accept any prices she asks for because the students do not want a mark of zero which will force them to repeat the grade.

“I have received an order from a classmate who asked help write an introduction about yourself in English,” Han said, revealing that she will get VND 100,000 for the job.

“The job proves to be very profitable, as students nowadays prove to be very lazy,” Huynh Thi Bao Chau, a student of the HCM City Open University noted.

VietNamNet/Tien phong