Abstract: Academic dishonesty, academic misconduct or academic fraud is any type of cheating that occurs in relation to formal academic exercises. This study primarily focused on cheating of examination in the classrooms through application of different techniques, mostly disguised ones. Qualitative research activity, employing interview and classroom observations as its basic tools of data gatherings were used on sources of the study. Two secondary schools (Jiren and Jimma Secondary schools) were study sites involved in the exploit where purposefully selected students of grade nine and ten with their classroom teachers chosen as resourceful informants.