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Tim Thorpe (Blog) - June 24, 2006 3:03 PM
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Cheaters are going to great lengths to escape detection, landing some in the hospital as a result

Reuters reports some Chinese students looking to secure a coveted spot in the highly competitive higher education system in China have gone to new lengths to cheat on their university entrance exams in order to capture their spot, landing some in the hospital as a result.

Universities have gone to great lengths including installing video cameras and mobile phone and radio blocking technologies in an effort to thwart those who would cheat on their entrance exams leading some students to go to extraordinary lengths, landing some in the hospital, in order to be accepted in to higher education. Every year in China 9.5 million students compete for only 2.6 million university vacancies leading to stiff competition among eager college hopefuls.

One student attempted to sneak an earphone in that was so small it slipped in to his ear canal and perforated the eardrum. Another student had to have an earpiece surgically removed after it became lodged in his ear; a third had to undergo surgery to repair a hole in his abdomen after the device he was wearing exploded.

Cheating at universities has been on the rise in recent years as students increasingly utilize technology to accomplish the task. Colleges have had to adapt their testing standards to meet the new challenges.


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College students?
By Vertigo101 on 6/25/2006 2:10:27 PM , Rating: 2
If this is the alleged 'cream of the crop' of Chinese kids, may God have mercey on their souls. They sound like idiots.




RE: College students?
By icered on 6/25/2006 2:16:54 PM , Rating: 2
Not really. It sounds more like desperation.


RE: College students?
By ahkey on 6/25/2006 2:33:45 PM , Rating: 3
Or ingenuity even.


Yea , thats desperation
By wingless on 6/25/2006 4:06:04 PM , Rating: 2
This shows they value education a helluva lot more than American students....theyre gonna own us in 20 years.




RE: Yea , thats desperation
By mogwai403 on 6/25/2006 7:49:18 PM , Rating: 2
When I was in China 15 years ago and did a year in junior high, I was overwhelmed with the amount of materials which we were suppose to 'memorize'.

Then when the forced-feed students get into the universities and got a taste of freedom of not studying, they can't resist the idea of not going to class and slacking off. Basically, no self-control.

Once they decided to give up a few lectures, then a few more, they were simply not ready for their destinated exams. They will, however, do anything to pass that paper.

Education is suppose to motivate people to learn, not force.


RE: Yea , thats desperation
By Trisped on 6/26/2006 2:12:59 PM , Rating: 2
They also focus to heavily on memorization. Instead of teaching them how to figure it out they tell them the answer and make them remember. This is nice, because you can do your work faster, but if something new comes along you won't have the tools to figure out how to fix it.


Imaginative cheating
By DrDisconnect on 6/26/2006 8:44:42 AM , Rating: 3
A kid sitting next to my daughter removed the label on his bottle of iced tea and wrote answers on the inside of the label and put it back on the bottle. The answers weren't visible until he drank the contents to avoid any checks when he entered the exam. A sharp teacher saw him contemplating the meaning of life in his ice tea however. They checked my daughters iced tea too after that. Fortunately that one of the few things she's smart enough not to do.




Worldwide problem
By stmok on 6/26/2006 6:11:58 AM , Rating: 2
Cheating just isn't just an issue in USA and China, its a worldwide problem.

USA college kids use PDA and other small devices.
China college kids use their own little gadgets. (with some disasterous consequences)

Aussies use the Internet without a thought (direct copy and paste, without making references to where they got it from).

Its up to the point where some Universities are using document scanning and comparison software to check if written works are not just blind "copy and paste" off someone else. (Yes, I've seen it work, and its pretty darn effective!)

The root cause of the issue seems 2 fold.

(1) We aren't taught ways to handle the tremendous amount of imformation in a short period of time. That is, if you think of your memory as a storage solution, its a bloody mess as there is no FAT or journal type system being installed. No organisation or structure. We aren't taught the shortcuts, but the old tedious ways. (rope learning, etc)...Its inefficient, and places a lot of pressure for people to do well.

(2) The sudden shift to freedom to do whatever we want, as we go to colleges and Universities. It should be a gradual process, as we learn the importance of independence and responsibility.

The way I see it, if there's a problem, go right back to the start and find out the root cause of it, and solve from there.




Build more schools?
By xKelemvor on 6/26/2006 9:02:32 AM , Rating: 2
I wonder how many universities and such are under way being built in China...

You'd think with that many people, the demand would be a reason to have more.




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