Hi-tech exam fraud

The rare case of fraudulent examination in this year's University-College entrance examination: A contestant of the Banking Academy uses a mobile phone to copy the answers from outside to read. The cleverly installed headset is only detected when this "lion" removes . a wig. The form of cheating exams through high-tech means, including participating lines, starts to be more alert .

The "black" hand is called hi-tech

The phenomenon of exam fraud by taking advantage of the sophisticated functions of high-tech equipment in the forewarned examinations but it seems that the education sector is still somewhat passive until this year. When the phone test fraud occurs in the first phase of this year's University-College examination, the University and Post-University Department will send an official dispatch to the admissions councils on the ban of using this device.

This year's exam, mobile phones have been gathered in this room to prevent fraud.Photo: Kieu Oanh

Accordingly, candidates are not allowed to bring "crickets" as well as other communication devices into the examination room. Even the superintendent will also be jointly responsible for letting the candidate take this action. The official dispatch also stated that examination officers must not bring cell phones while on duty.

Returning to the "wig team" case above, Vu Viet Duc contestant was born in 1987 (Lang Son village) initially admitted that he spent 20 million dong to hire the organizer to make the answer, read into the examination room via mobile phone. . When caught, the German Nokia is operating in listening mode for over 100 minutes. Also from this "postcard", PA25 used professional measures to clarify the number of incoming calls for Germany. Germany accepted the line to help Germany install the university entrance exam to go outside and outside the problem and call in Germany via mobile phone.

Another case of fraud is also at the test site of the Banking Academy. Another contestant who was discovered by police PA25 used a mobile phone with headphones in the examination room. This action was only exposed when it took place for 45 minutes but the supervisor did not know!

Particularly, the first entrance exam with three subjects in Mathematics A, Ly, Hoa, after finishing, Inspector of the Ministry of Education and Training has announced nearly a dozen cases of phone fraud. When this is still a relatively new and sophisticated form of fraud, this number is probably just the "floating part of the iceberg" (?). Warnings along with strict, determined disciplines for students who violate this form - from the experience gained - will make sense in the following test with blocks B, C, and B that are considered to be favorable. It is more advantageous to deliver solutions and documents through sophisticated, compact handheld devices.

The "model" which creates more favorable conditions for contestants and family members when going to university exams, is an indispensable communication line that has become the "accomplice" of new scams with accents. worries during this year's exam season. Of course, this is not the first time this fraud has been warned. In the 2005 season, a leased line with a mobile phone call was also removed by Bac Giang police.

A "tissue", an MP3 player, a tape recorder . the size of a computer and as small as a "cat gut", the small photocopier cannot be smaller. . so it was "conceded" even when there was a rule that the officers could only bring pens, rulers, and entrance papers to the room.

How to fight fraud?

A CD Rom is enough to hold hundreds of essays that are "copied" from the Internet.( Photo: VNN )

The form of cheating examinations as well as other forms of fraud are becoming more sophisticated with the contribution of high-tech facilities, the ability to copy extremely fast and easily on cyberspace.

When the information on the Internet becomes endless, copy of the gray matter of other people becomes a rare occurrence. Particularly for studying and examination, both in the world and in Vietnam, there are many "plagiarism" games, frauds are uncovered. Sometimes, just surfing on the network for a few minutes can have a project, hundreds of pages. In addition to a few search operations, the rest is just copy and paste.

In Korea there was a story of students submitting a thesis with products downloaded from the Internet. Copying documents online to get their exam products is so popular and infectious that schools have asked students to write essays instead of typing, to prevent sex. The status of the essay is copied online.

To prevent further, many universities here have developed a program to be able to discover "smelly . carp" essays (copy). This program is called 'Korea University Essay Control System' (KUREPOLS).

Talking about this program, the Korean Times said: Based on the summary of students' essays in the form of booklets and programs, KUREPOLS considers every sentence in the essay and compares with the essay of the students. Other students to determine if this essay is fraudulent. After that, the system will randomly pick up a paragraph and compare it with other sources found on the Google search engine. The search results will be transmitted to professors in order from the most 'suspicious' essays, on which basis, the professors will review the essays to make a final conclusion.

In my country, about cheating on examinations is still a long-term headache, especially when high-tech machines and equipment are increasingly "upgraded" and between vast and endless cyberspace, people guarding exams is not easy to point out "thief".

During the exam season 2 years ago, this article writer was told about a contestant from the exam room who came out gloating with the supervisor. This person made a phone call out to "ask for reminders" when he said he had phoned from the toilet.

Thus, being wary of sophisticated forms of fraud may occur, strictly enforcing the assurance of fairness in examinations will contribute to limiting these forms of fraud. But it seems that the regulation of banning to bring mobile phones into the examination room has just been leaked when there are many other digital devices such as MP3 players, recording pens, multi-function computers, Digital photography clock with math formulas . not yet mentioned.

Perhaps one of the highlights of the university entrance exam this year is the phenomenon that can be considered a "flare" of cheating exams through mobile phones, so when mentioning this, Mr. Quach Tuan Ngoc, Director of Trung IT center - Ministry of Education and Training, says: "This is a normal part of the technology era. And the most radical measure is to use anti-technology technology, which is the consideration to deploy wave breakers ( in about 100m), detect waves . at test sites ".

Particularly about the problem of copying theses on the network during the exam season, Mr. Ngoc also said, the market is not much more than a dissertation on the Internet. He commented: " Publish all essays online. Although the internet space is large, it is still easier to monitor and monitor than photo shops ." The reason is: When "plagiarism" is online, "thief" will not be discovered by this person. If it is merely copy and paste, it will be exposed when protected, when questioned .

"The network is an endless space with a wealth of materials for reference when studying, taking exams, making projects, writing essays, but remember to cite sources, be aware of which ones are yours, which are references from other places to show honesty and avoid the unfortunate cases that happen, "Ngoc said.

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