College entrance exams were conducted last month in China for over 9.5 million students. In the last few years there have been many high profile organized cheating incidents, and this year was no exception. Once again students tried to give themselves an edge by turning to technology. Here are a few pictures of some of the gadgets being used.
Speaking of cheating technology; in Bulgaria a medical student named Georghe Dimitriov used a government walkie-talkie (which belonged to his father) to cheat on an exam. Cheating became the least of Georghe's problems as his exam just happened to coincide with a trip to Bulgaria by President George W.
As Georghe was gathering test answers from his accomplice, United States Secret Service agents happened upon the conversation. Thinking they might be on to a terrorist plot agents raided the university and discovered Georghe in a bathroom scribbling notes.
Georghe was detained for 24 hours -- found innocent of a terrorist plot -- but failed the exam.
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1 > Chinese Arrest Three in Wi-Fi Exam Cheating Caper
Campus Technology - Chatsworth,CA,USA
...The Chinese news agency Xinhua reported that three people have been arrested for using Wi-Fi microphones to cheat on national college entrance exams. The exams, which are "make or break" rites of academic passage, are considered state secrets before the tests, Xinhua reported...
2 > Cheating the system
Texas A&M The Battalion - College Station,TX,USA
...My name is Kevin, and I'm a cheater. I won't specify any classes or rat out any accomplices, but I cheated in high school and I've cheated in college. Cheating is a near-irresistible force....
3 > Cheating Cheaters of the Chance
Washington Post - United States
...As Washington area students complete final exams, teachers are using whatever means possible to expose cheaters, or at least scare them off before they try. Although cheating has been monitored at least since the advent of the No. 2 pencil, many teachers and students say enforcement has become more aggressive than ever. No longer do teachers simply rearrange chairs or walk around the room to proctor a test....
4 > Hanoi police nab man for organizing university exam fraud
Thanh Nien Daily - Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam
...Nguyen Van Vinh, 27, was caught red-handed by the police while delivering forged entrance exam admittance forms and identity cards to his henchmen. Vinh, from the central Nghe An province, promised to secure university seats for ‘clients’ for a payment of VND40 million, half of it in advance. He would forge documents, swapping the photos on the candidates’ ID cards and exam entry forms for those of his men who would then take the test on their behalf....
5 > Why some teachers cheat
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
...Of all the questions parents are asking about Uniondale's test-fraud scandal, one is especially vexing: Why?
Why would a teacher or administrator risk a job to boost test scores by cheating?
The answer isn't as obvious as it seems. It's not simply money. Long Island schools don't give pay incentives to educators who raise test scores.
"Any time a test becomes a high-stakes event, when educators are judged on how well kids score, then there's pressure for educators to look good," said W. James Popham, a testing expert at University of California, Los Angeles....
6 > Experts called to sniff out fraud
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
..."We use the results that are in the data, but we have a special kind of analysis to tease it out," said John Fremer, president of Caveon, a company that started four years ago to help schools, companies and the military find test fraud. Some of the techniques Caveon uses would surprise test-takers. With "erasure analysis," for example, an electronic scanner or a human reviews answer sheets to see how many answers were changed. Then computers crunch the numbers to look for unusual patterns....
7 > The Pervasiveness of Cheating
South Korea
...In its modern form, the "gaokao" winnows out the superior from the average. Some students see it as their only way out a life of poverty and dismal future. Yet with close to 10 million applicants competing for 5.7 million slots at various national universities, the pressure to perform is overwhelming and has in many cases led to suicides. ...
8 > How To Cheat With Your iPod
The Gadgets Page
...The end of the school year is looming, which means this is the big final test of the year. How are you going to study? Do you even have to study? When you can carry the breadth and depth of human knowledge in your iPod, should you be required to memorize all those dates and names? Isn’t it more important to know HOW to find information from reliable resources? Isn’t it more important to know WHICH information should be included?...
9 > An exam so crucial, life in China grinds to a halt
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
...Unlike the United States, where standardized test scores are just one factor weighed by universities, how Chinese students do on the gaokao determines everything. Students list their top three schools and their major and hope their score is high enough to win a place. Extracurricular activities do not count, and neither do high school grades. And forget writing about volunteer work; there are no essays to persuade admissions officers. The Ministry of Education says only 5.7 million students - or 60 percent of those who take the test - will be able to enter college....
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