Mother, 67, caught trying to take exam using daughter’s ID

A 67-year-old woman was charged on Wednesday after being caught showing up to take the state university entry exams with her 25-year-old daughter’s ID.

Police said they had received a complaint in the morning about a woman who went to take the exams in the place of her daughter at a Larnaca high school.

The woman presented her 25-year-old daughter’s ID. But according to the police, there was no record of the daughter even expressing interest in taking the exams or that anyone else had filed an application on her behalf.

People wishing to go to state universities in Cyprus and Greece, need to take the Pancyprian exams, organised at the end of each school year as they are the same ones pupils take to graduate high school.

The woman was charged in writing and will be called to present in court at a later stage.