Cheat crackdown before exams start
Source: Xinhua |
June 6, 2011, Monday
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AS millions of Chinese students do some last minute cramming for this week's national college entrance examinations, authorities are cracking down on sales of high-tech cheating devices.
Since late April, police in Changchun, the capital city of northeast China's Jilin Province, have busted eight criminal rings that have admitted to selling devices such as wireless earphones and transmitter-receiver sets that allow users to cheat during exams, said Liang Xiangdong, vice head of the city's public security bureau.
The National College Entrance Examination, or "gaokao" in Chinese, will take place from tomorrow until Thursday. It is the world's largest standardized test and is taken by millions of Chinese students every year.
However, a string of cheating scandals have cast a shadow over the exam.
High-tech wireless earphones have appeared in exam venues in recent years. Earpieces are as slim as a matchstick and can receive audio information.
In 2009, teachers in Jilin's Songyuan City were discovered to be selling wireless devices to students, sparking public outrage.
Last year, seven examinees from Jingyuan County, northwest China's Gansu Province, were caught using high-tech devices to cheat.
Public security authorities in Jilin and Gansu provinces have intensified identification checks in hotels and rented homes near exam venues as they search for vendors of cheating devices.
In Gansu, examinees are forbidden from taking stationery into exam venues and must only use that provided, according to the province's education authorities.
In central China's Henan Province, watches cannot be taken into exam venues, and erasers and rulers will be inspected.
Test venues around the country are installing metal detectors, cell phone signal shielding devices and wireless mini earphones detectors.
The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance this year stated that local authorities must establish funds to build standardized exam venues. About 13,000 such venues are planned for the end of 2012.
This week, 9.33 million students will take the test in 310,000 venues nationwide.
Since late April, police in Changchun, the capital city of northeast China's Jilin Province, have busted eight criminal rings that have admitted to selling devices such as wireless earphones and transmitter-receiver sets that allow users to cheat during exams, said Liang Xiangdong, vice head of the city's public security bureau.
The National College Entrance Examination, or "gaokao" in Chinese, will take place from tomorrow until Thursday. It is the world's largest standardized test and is taken by millions of Chinese students every year.
However, a string of cheating scandals have cast a shadow over the exam.
High-tech wireless earphones have appeared in exam venues in recent years. Earpieces are as slim as a matchstick and can receive audio information.
In 2009, teachers in Jilin's Songyuan City were discovered to be selling wireless devices to students, sparking public outrage.
Last year, seven examinees from Jingyuan County, northwest China's Gansu Province, were caught using high-tech devices to cheat.
Public security authorities in Jilin and Gansu provinces have intensified identification checks in hotels and rented homes near exam venues as they search for vendors of cheating devices.
In Gansu, examinees are forbidden from taking stationery into exam venues and must only use that provided, according to the province's education authorities.
In central China's Henan Province, watches cannot be taken into exam venues, and erasers and rulers will be inspected.
Test venues around the country are installing metal detectors, cell phone signal shielding devices and wireless mini earphones detectors.
The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance this year stated that local authorities must establish funds to build standardized exam venues. About 13,000 such venues are planned for the end of 2012.
This week, 9.33 million students will take the test in 310,000 venues nationwide.
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