[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Jack_

This is true, a few months back our year had this revision tips session with some organisation that specialises in it and the woman told us (she said she shouldn't be telling us) that there's this special search engine specifically for that purpose that lots of educational institutions use to check for plagiarism. I can't remember the name of it now though.

EDIT: Found it.

http://www.copyscape.com

It's called turnitin, I used it in my degree, loads of the lads on my course said prior to that they copy and pasted regularly.

I didn't say the exams were getting easier, I said learning is exam focussed...
The curriculum is so unchanged that the same questions are cropping up regularly... It's just a matter of coaching students to focus on specific areas of text rather than the play or subject as a whole.