BEIJING, April 9 (Xinhua) -- China is considering to
enact a law for examination security as examination cheating widely exists, said
an official with the Ministry of Education.
Dai Jiagan, director of the National Education
Examination Authority (NEEA) under the Ministry of Education, said examination
security is one of the most issues of concern among the Chinese people, as
examination equality is the bottom line of social equality.
However, examination cheating is rampant and is
becoming well-organized together with high-tech means.
The NEEA disclosed that police spotted eleven
wireless communication vehicles outside a venue of national college entrance
examination last summer. In the vehicles, some "qiangshou" -- persons employed
to answer the exam papers for some students, were busy answering exam papers and
launching the answer through mobile phones.
However, police did not know how to deal with the
exam cheating organizers and the substitutes due to the law blank.
Exam papers of the national college entrance exam are
regarded confidential documents, but there are no regulations on when they are
declassified.
Therefore, some people easily took out the exam
papers from the exam spots soon after the examination begins, as most people
deem the exam papers are declassified automatically half an hour after the exam
begins.
Not only in the national college entrance exam,
cheating also widely exists in the country's other national exams, such as
college English tests.
Facts prove that a law on examination security is
urgently needed.