Some entrepreneuring students in South Korea engineered a scheme to cheat on the National Scholastic Aptitude Test which is used for college entrance. On Thursday, November 18th over 100 students from seven different high schools participated in exchanging text messages with the answers to the national examination.
The scheme had 40 high scoring students text messaging their answers to second year high school students. The second year students then compared the answers to find the most likely correct answer, then text messaged the results to 50 other test takers.
It probably seemed like a good idea at the time, but I would guess the simultaneous receipt of 40 text messages might have given them away.
The most popular phone used to carry out debacle is pictured right. Can you identify this phone?
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If I was a teacher giving a test I think I might be a bit curious if I saw half the class holding their phones furiously pressing buttons all at the same time instead of writing the test, ya think? What was the teacher doing? Talking on the phone?
The strange thing is, wouldn’t a normal examiner confiscate anything other than pens and calculator – at the very first visual contact of unapproved items?
Kenny
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