"Wigged out" students caught cheating
You've probably considered it, you may have even given it a whirl just to see if it'd fly; using technology to your advantage in testing situations is most often regarding as cheating, as was the case when proctors recently busted a ring of Vietnamese test-takers attempting to cheat on their college entrance exams. More than 20 hopeful students paid between $1,250 to $3,125USD to get wired up with wigs and shirts that would allow them to communicate questions and answers via mobile phones without being discovered. The potential gain was apparently worth the risk, especially since only 10 percent of applicants in Vietnam get accepted to universities. Once again we see that crime doesn't pay, but we can't help but give props to the high-tech hijinks.
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korey @ Jul 21st 2006 10:02AM
I used to sell sparknotes in school im expelled now for a year helping 75 students pass the midterm
-_- @ Jul 21st 2006 3:16PM
ha-ha!
c'mon, folks. can't you people just realize that cheating only works HERE, in the good ol' us of a?!
why? 'cause we're the only ones too dumb to not be able to catch it. students today are growing up with technology unkown to their parents, therefore, the parents have no clue how to make sure things like this don't happen; but other places in the world, most everyone is technology-proficient, so it's no problem to catch electronic cheaters.
Pacey @ Jul 22nd 2006 11:46AM
Any class I could have my TI-92 out, I did.
I had every formula for math and physics in it and all my class notes in it.
emarrs @ Jul 22nd 2006 1:06PM
hopefully they had went the extra mile in choosing a phone WITH bluetooth, so they could just transfer the pics of the correct answers, instead of texting them. didnt china or south korea catch a bunch of kids texting answers a year or so ago?
srw985 @ Jul 22nd 2006 2:03PM
i know people say that they're scams, but after adding a signal booster sticker to my phone ( well 3 actually), i can get a signal pretty much anywere, inluding the most hidden classrooms where normally its impossible to get a signal.
Rico @ Jul 24th 2006 2:02PM
I beg to differ, "-_-" (comment #2). I'm from the Philippines, and when PDAs were new here, lots of people got away with cheating. They'd pretend to use the PDA as a calculator, switching to their notes when the time was right. :-) People still get away, even if we have one of the highest cellphone usage rates in the world, simply because our older teachers don't realize the capabilities of today's smartphones/PDAs.
So I guess the technology generation gap applies here too.
Rico @ Jul 24th 2006 2:05PM
Your comments: I beg to differ, "-_-" (comment #2). Here in the Philippines, when PDAs were new, lots of people got away with cheating. They'd pretend to use the PDA as a calculator, switching to their notes when the time was right. :-)
Even today, when we have on of the highest cellphone usage rates in the world (http://www.newsflash.org/2003/05/tl/tl012150.htm), this trick is still possible. Our older teachers simply don't realize the capabilities of today's gadgets.
So I guess the technology generation gap
applies here too.
JimReaper @ Apr 11th 2008 4:19PM
How many didn't get caught?
hello @ Apr 12th 2008 8:48PM
how would they know when they didn't get caught?
Ray Michael @ Jan 29th 2009 4:41AM
i normally put notes on my ipod or record them and pop in a single earbud and listen away