WiFi mics used in exam cheats
p2pnet.net news:- National college entrance exams in China are “make or break,” spawning a string of cheating scandals, says state news agency Xinhua.
Now three people have been arrested for running a money making conspiracy involving wireless mics, it says.
“Police in Jiutai, in the northeastern province of Jilin, became suspicious when a mini-bus remained parked outside a school hosting the exam Thursday, Xinhua said.
“Inside, they found three people, ‘two of them staring at a computer screen and talking into a walkie-talkie’. A student in the examination hall used a wireless microphone to read out the questions and received the answers from the van, Xinhua quoted their confessions as saying.”
The three charged the student 12,000 yuan ($1,500), it says.
Exam papers are considered state secrets before the tests, says Xinhua, adding:
Authorities in neighboring Liaoning province spent 100 million yuan fitting over 8,000 exam halls with metal detectors and cameras to prevent tech-savvy students from cheating on national university entrance tests.
Police had found some 42 pairs of so-called “cheating shoes” with transmitting and reception ability, selling for about 2,000 yuan each, in a flat in Shenyang, the provincial capital, state media said Thursday, adding that they – along with “cheating wallets” and hats – had proved popular this year.
Three men in the southwestern province of Sichuan received suspended jail terms of 8-12 months last year for using pinhole cameras to send out images of the entrance exam papers to be worked out by “hired guns” for 19 students.
Also See:
Xinhua – Three detained for high-tech exam cheating, June 10, 2007
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