Mobile Phone Detector to Curb Cheats

Education authorities in some cities are distributing mobile phone signal detectors to adult college entrance exam supervisors to try to prevent cheating, reports China.org.

"Beijing, Hefei, the capital of Anhui Province, and Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, were among the first to use the device Saturday and Sunday.

No bigger than a cigarette packet, the detector can trace a mobile signal to the phone user within a radius of 30 meters. However, several Beijing newspapers said the detector turned out to be not sensitive enough to catch every text message usage.

Last year, more than 100 students were caught in Beijing's adult college entrance exam using mobile phones to receive test answers. This accounted for 40 percent of the total number of students caught cheating."

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emily | 11:58 AM | SMS and Students |
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