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In an attempt to keep students from cheating their final exams, Chinese education authorities have installed metal detectors in exam centers to clamp down on “wireless cheating devices”, and that even includes the ban on metal bra clasps.
The students in the northeastern province of Jilin have officially banned students from wearing clothing with metal parts when they’re about to take their exams. “The machines won’t even forgive the tiny clasps in girls’ bras. In fact, female students are best advised to wear undershirts instead so that when they pass through security, no ‘zizi’ sound is made,’ state-run Global Times said.
The authorities have become increasingly concerned about the risk of examinees bringing in smartphones into exam halls as they are now seen as a device to cheat on their exams. Smartphones have no reportedly become smaller and easier to hide, and they’re even hard to find during illicit aid tests.
Every year, the cheating scandals irritate the Chinese public, shocking them with the increasingly sophisticated methods being used to cheat on their exams, including hiring lookalikes to sit for their exams.
In 2008, it was reported that some girls in the Jiangsu Province set up mini-cameras inside their bras so they could transmit images of the exam paper to the person waiting elsewhere to provide answers.
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