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Chinese students sitting down to
the most important exams of their lives this week needed no reminder of
how high stakes were. But they got one — the promise of jail time if
they were caught cheating on their tests.
It’s the first time that custodial sentences have been stipulated for anyone using underhand tactics to get ahead their gaokao university entrance examinations — essentially China’s equivalent of America’s SAT.School leavers are assessed on their Chinese, mathematics, English and another subject of their choosing, though accusations of mass cheating have been rife in recent years, even involving alleged organized syndicates between teachers and pupils. In 2013, there was a riot at one school when invigilators tried to halt brazen exam fraud.
Already, surveillance drones and metal detectors are deployed to catch those smuggling in illicit radio equipment, while iris and fingerprint scanners ferret out brainy stooges paid to sit the test in lieu of the bona fide student.
Now, though,
those caught cheating will be banned from repeating the test for several
years, while anyone caught facilitating mass cheating or paying someone
else to sit the test on their behalf can face up to seven years in
prison.
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