The Ministry of Education on Monday issued amended rules concerning punishments for cheating on national exams in response to a growing trend of using technology to cheat on the tests.

The Chinese have a perception problem that they need to deal with. The problem is that people in America think all Chinese are getting into American universities by cheating.

That’s the question that China needs to answer. Allegations and rumors suggest that the exam content of the recently administered English exam was available on the Internet. The allegations appear to be credible.

The amount of cheating using cell phones and radios on the national tests in China has lead the city of Beijing to adopt countermeasures. Two of these include cell phone jamming and radio traffic monitoring.

- Cheating in China is ubiquitous on tests and falsified applications, but it seems to be pervasive in other areas of the culture, as well.
- How many American companies would cheat, if there was a really, really good chance they could get away with it? A lot more than most of us might like to admit.

I saw an article that tests were administered outside, but it didn’t sink in until I looked at the picture. Student to proctor ratio must be 30 to 1, but in an administration of 2,000 students that would be 70 proctors. This looks serious!

-For years, American college admissions officers have seemed to be saying: “Chinese cheat. It’s just the way they are, and accepting this is part of the cost of doing business in China.”
-In other words, gaining a student who can pay full admission is the goal; gaining someone honest is not.
-I wouldn’t call this a “conundrum.” I’d call it a disgrace, and one that I viewed first hand.