Exam cheating proves big business
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June 10, 2010, Thursday
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REVELATIONS of an underground industry selling cheating devices and services took center stage as China's national college entrance examinations ended yesterday.
The prospect of gaining a diploma from a top university - guaranteeing a decent job - tempted some to cheat despite tightened security.
The phenomenon created a lucrative market for cheating devices.
Seven students in northwest Gansu Province were found to have used high-tech devices to cheat.
The exam papers of the students caught cheating were given zero marks and police had detained three people who allegedly sold the devices to them, a spokesman with the education bureau of Jingyuan County in Gansu said yesterday.
Supervisors found wireless earphones and rulers and wristwatch-like receiving devices on the students, who were caught in three exam rooms in Jingyuan on Monday and Tuesday.
In central Hubei Province, police detained four people who sold wireless communication equipment on June 4 to help students cheat.
Police confiscated 11 devices worth more than 100,000 yuan (US$14,640), according to the public security bureau of Honghu City.
The suspects allegedly charged a 2,000-yuan down-payment for each set. After the exams, buyers had to pay another 5,000 yuan, bringing the end cost to about US$1,000 per set.
In southwest Guizhou Province, 11 people have been detained over an exam-cheating scheme.
They were caught in a hotel of remote Songtao County along with more than 60 transmitters and three laptops on Sunday, a day before the tests began, said Zhou Baoying, who heads Guizhou's exam and recruitment center.
The 11 are believed to have attempted to transmit answers to examinees from hotel rooms.
They allegedly sold at least 10 cheating devices to examinees in the province's Yinjiang, Sinan and Songtao counties and Zunyi City.
After breaking the ring, education authorities sent more inspectors to Songtao to step up measures to stop cheating, Zhou said.
More than 226,000 students took the exams on Monday and Tuesday in Guizhou.
Some students were found trying to bring cheating devices into exam venues, Zhou said.
"They were stopped," he said. "No cheating was found during the exam, hence no students were penalized."
However, China Youth Daily yesterday reported rampant cheating in Songtao, quoting students who bragged about the fact.
Zhou said the report was unfounded but admitted it was possible that some cheating may have gone unnoticed.
"We did take very strict steps though we cannot guarantee no one cheated," Zhou said.
Previous reports said at least 58 people from eastern Fujian Province and Gansu had been arrested for selling cheating devices.
More than 9.57 million people sat this year's exams and about 6.57 million will be enrolled in the nation's universities as a result.
The Ministry of Education is yet to give the number of students found cheating. In the 2009 exams, 2,219 students cheated, according to official statistics.
The prospect of gaining a diploma from a top university - guaranteeing a decent job - tempted some to cheat despite tightened security.
The phenomenon created a lucrative market for cheating devices.
Seven students in northwest Gansu Province were found to have used high-tech devices to cheat.
The exam papers of the students caught cheating were given zero marks and police had detained three people who allegedly sold the devices to them, a spokesman with the education bureau of Jingyuan County in Gansu said yesterday.
Supervisors found wireless earphones and rulers and wristwatch-like receiving devices on the students, who were caught in three exam rooms in Jingyuan on Monday and Tuesday.
In central Hubei Province, police detained four people who sold wireless communication equipment on June 4 to help students cheat.
Police confiscated 11 devices worth more than 100,000 yuan (US$14,640), according to the public security bureau of Honghu City.
The suspects allegedly charged a 2,000-yuan down-payment for each set. After the exams, buyers had to pay another 5,000 yuan, bringing the end cost to about US$1,000 per set.
In southwest Guizhou Province, 11 people have been detained over an exam-cheating scheme.
They were caught in a hotel of remote Songtao County along with more than 60 transmitters and three laptops on Sunday, a day before the tests began, said Zhou Baoying, who heads Guizhou's exam and recruitment center.
The 11 are believed to have attempted to transmit answers to examinees from hotel rooms.
They allegedly sold at least 10 cheating devices to examinees in the province's Yinjiang, Sinan and Songtao counties and Zunyi City.
After breaking the ring, education authorities sent more inspectors to Songtao to step up measures to stop cheating, Zhou said.
More than 226,000 students took the exams on Monday and Tuesday in Guizhou.
Some students were found trying to bring cheating devices into exam venues, Zhou said.
"They were stopped," he said. "No cheating was found during the exam, hence no students were penalized."
However, China Youth Daily yesterday reported rampant cheating in Songtao, quoting students who bragged about the fact.
Zhou said the report was unfounded but admitted it was possible that some cheating may have gone unnoticed.
"We did take very strict steps though we cannot guarantee no one cheated," Zhou said.
Previous reports said at least 58 people from eastern Fujian Province and Gansu had been arrested for selling cheating devices.
More than 9.57 million people sat this year's exams and about 6.57 million will be enrolled in the nation's universities as a result.
The Ministry of Education is yet to give the number of students found cheating. In the 2009 exams, 2,219 students cheated, according to official statistics.
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