electronic cheating aids in classrooms as tech-savvy students take up
national college entrance exams.
The authorities in China have detained some people suspected of
selling electronic cheating aids such as wireless headphones and
two-way radios.
"Chinese police have detained 62 suspects for selling electronic
devices used for cheating, as well as falsified examination documents,
in the run up to the country's national college entrance exams,"
Xinhua quoted the ministry of education as saying.
This year about 9.33 million students will participate in China's
national college entrance exams between June 7 and 8.
Police and educational bureaus across the country have coordinated
their efforts to crack 45 cheating-related cases so far, including
busting a ring of illegal businesses selling cheating aids such as
wireless headphones and two-way radios, the ministry said in a
statement on its website on Sunday.
In the latest case, local police in China's Xiamen city in Fujian
Province, detained two suspects on June 4 for advertising the sale of
electronic cheating aids and counterfeit examination documents.
These documents were said to contain content from the upcoming entrance exams.
The National College Entrance Examination (NCEE), or "gaokao," is the
world's largest standardized test, taken by millions of Chinese
students every year. However, a string of cheating scandals featuring
the use of high-tech devices have cast a shadow over the test.
Last week, the ministry vowed to exercise an "iron hand and zero
tolerance" on cheating during the annual tests, saying special efforts
will be made to crack down on organized cheating schemes.
Examinees, if found to be cheating or plagiarizing during the exam,
will be disqualified from taking the exam and will be prohibited from
signing up for next year's exam as well, according to the ministry.
About 0.02 percent of students who took last year's college entrance
exam were later found to have cheated, according to figures from the
ministry. IANS
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