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Forty-two students in the southwestern city of Gwangju contributed 20 million won for a college exam cheating scheme involving 141 students and mobile phones, police said yesterday.
Each of the 42 was reported to hand over from 300,000 to 500,000 won to finance the elaborate scam of the national college entrance exam on Wednesday.
An arrest warrant was also issued to six students who stage-managed the scam, the first time of its kind for cheating in the college entrance exam.
Police were investigating but could not confirm allegations that the cheating was done in previous years, that other kinds of cheating schemes were used, and that some parents condoned the cheating plan.
"The statements of those questioned were sort of rumors and there was no evidence confirmed," said Kim Young-wol, investigation director of the Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education.
Several reports on cheating for consecutive years persisted, however. "Some of the students who were involved in illegal acts this year played a 'helper' role last year for students who were taking the exam," a student questioned by police was quoted as saying by a local newspaper. Under the scheme, exam takers sent the answers via mobile phones to younger students stationed at inns outside the exam center. The outside helpers selected the most favorable answers and sent them back to students taking the exam.
All mobile phones were supposed to have been submitted to the authorities before the exam, but officials did not enforce this strictly.
Some raised possibilities of a substitute exam-taking scheme. A police investigation was spurred by an online advertisement, posted prior to the exam, that offered taking the exam in return for money.
"The exam cheating was done not only with mobile phones," wrote Lim Seong-hyun on the Web site of the Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education on Sunday. He said a person proposed him to be a substitute exam taker in exchange for a large amount of money.
The authorities, including the Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education, came under heavy criticism for not preventing the organized mobile phone scheme despite several reports warning that such a scam was being planned. The Ministry of Education and other authorities said yesterday they would set up a committee to seek countermeasures against future cheating.
Education Minister Ahn Byung-young said the government is considering banning anyone caught cheating in the national college entrance exam from re-applying for the test for three years.
Ahn, speaking to a meeting of the National Assembly's Education Committee which discussed the snowballing cheating scandal, apologized for the concern caused among the public.
Lawmakers of the ruling and the opposition parties criticized the ministry for failing to prevent such a incident in advance.
"The weak measures that the ministry took after roughly acknowledging the possibility of students' cheating worsened the problem," Rep. Jee Byung-moon of the ruling Uri Party told the committee.
The ministry should be ashamed for failing to earlier recognize such large-scaled cheating was to take place when it had been planned several weeks before the exam day, said Jee.
"Students using all possible measures in order to achieve their goals show what can happen in a society that revolves around good grades and strong school fraternities," he added. "It is deeply concerning that even youngsters are losing their morals."
The lawmakers asserted that the present university entrance exam system should be reformed after a thorough review.
Under the present system, students get to take one single entrance exam on the same day and the result of the exam works as a crucial factor in deciding their future.
"Anyone could be tempted to cheat if his or her life is to be decided by one single exam," said Uri Rep. Bok Ki-wang. "It is important that we punish the cheaters and those related. But more importantly, we should question the education system which has caused this."
Rep. Lee Ju-ho of the main opposition Grand National Party agreed, saying a system with more evaluation steps should be established to measure the ability of students. "It is erroneous for universities to select students by their score in one test," he said.
Opposition lawmaker Ahn Sang-soo asserted bringing back a system that allows universities to hold separate entrance examinations. "Today's happening occurred due to the problematic system that makes millions of students all over the nation take one exam on the same day," he said.
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Q1. Which education and exam system could be faultlessness compared with abroad nations?
Q2. do you agree the national cllege entance exam in korea?
Q3. Do you remember any tricks or astute cheating skills in your schooltime?
Q4. how about your thinks that away for enter the cllage batter than now?
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Each of the 42 was reported to hand over from 300,000 to 500,000 won to finance the elaborate scam of the national college entrance exam on Wednesday.
An arrest warrant was also issued to six students who stage-managed the scam, the first time of its kind for cheating in the college entrance exam.
Police were investigating but could not confirm allegations that the cheating was done in previous years, that other kinds of cheating schemes were used, and that some parents condoned the cheating plan.
"The statements of those questioned were sort of rumors and there was no evidence confirmed," said Kim Young-wol, investigation director of the Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education.
Several reports on cheating for consecutive years persisted, however. "Some of the students who were involved in illegal acts this year played a 'helper' role last year for students who were taking the exam," a student questioned by police was quoted as saying by a local newspaper. Under the scheme, exam takers sent the answers via mobile phones to younger students stationed at inns outside the exam center. The outside helpers selected the most favorable answers and sent them back to students taking the exam.
All mobile phones were supposed to have been submitted to the authorities before the exam, but officials did not enforce this strictly.
Some raised possibilities of a substitute exam-taking scheme. A police investigation was spurred by an online advertisement, posted prior to the exam, that offered taking the exam in return for money.
"The exam cheating was done not only with mobile phones," wrote Lim Seong-hyun on the Web site of the Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education on Sunday. He said a person proposed him to be a substitute exam taker in exchange for a large amount of money.
The authorities, including the Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education, came under heavy criticism for not preventing the organized mobile phone scheme despite several reports warning that such a scam was being planned. The Ministry of Education and other authorities said yesterday they would set up a committee to seek countermeasures against future cheating.
Education Minister Ahn Byung-young said the government is considering banning anyone caught cheating in the national college entrance exam from re-applying for the test for three years.
Ahn, speaking to a meeting of the National Assembly's Education Committee which discussed the snowballing cheating scandal, apologized for the concern caused among the public.
Lawmakers of the ruling and the opposition parties criticized the ministry for failing to prevent such a incident in advance.
"The weak measures that the ministry took after roughly acknowledging the possibility of students' cheating worsened the problem," Rep. Jee Byung-moon of the ruling Uri Party told the committee.
The ministry should be ashamed for failing to earlier recognize such large-scaled cheating was to take place when it had been planned several weeks before the exam day, said Jee.
"Students using all possible measures in order to achieve their goals show what can happen in a society that revolves around good grades and strong school fraternities," he added. "It is deeply concerning that even youngsters are losing their morals."
The lawmakers asserted that the present university entrance exam system should be reformed after a thorough review.
Under the present system, students get to take one single entrance exam on the same day and the result of the exam works as a crucial factor in deciding their future.
"Anyone could be tempted to cheat if his or her life is to be decided by one single exam," said Uri Rep. Bok Ki-wang. "It is important that we punish the cheaters and those related. But more importantly, we should question the education system which has caused this."
Rep. Lee Ju-ho of the main opposition Grand National Party agreed, saying a system with more evaluation steps should be established to measure the ability of students. "It is erroneous for universities to select students by their score in one test," he said.
Opposition lawmaker Ahn Sang-soo asserted bringing back a system that allows universities to hold separate entrance examinations. "Today's happening occurred due to the problematic system that makes millions of students all over the nation take one exam on the same day," he said.
Question
Q1. Which education and exam system could be faultlessness compared with abroad nations?
Q2. do you agree the national cllege entance exam in korea?
Q3. Do you remember any tricks or astute cheating skills in your schooltime?
Q4. how about your thinks that away for enter the cllage batter than now?
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