Indian students get banned from wearing shoes to their examinations
We've heard of being banned from wearing peaked caps during your exams, but never shoes...
When it comes to not being prepared for a test or exam, many people can firmly say that the feelings of anxiety can literally take over every atom of your being. Sometimes people get so stressed out that they do silly things.
Cheating isn't uncommon when it comes to examinations, especially when you have so much invested in the exam. This was the case for some students in India who were taking the teaching exam.
"Some 1.6 million men and women travelled from their homes over the weekend, great distances in some cases, to take the exams in 4,000 centres — all for just 31,000 jobs in Rajasthan. A job as a teacher is highly coveted, and this has created very competitive exam days," National Post reports.
Of course, with the pressure, some students were tempted to take the 'easy' way out and engage in cheating.
Due to the high profiled nature of becoming a teacher, the officials implemented quite a rigid security process to make sure that fairness was being applied to everyone equally.
"Their efforts were rewarded when a group of people were found acting suspiciously outside the exam hall on Saturday evening, likely testing out the reception for the Bluetooth devices they had hidden in the soles of their shoes. The devices were going to be able to receive calls that would then be sent wirelessly to tiny receivers hidden in the student teachers’ ears." (National Post)
If you are wondering how this works exactly, well the plan was said to include an accomplice, who would stand outside and call the bluetooth device embedded in the student's flip flops and dictate the answers through an ear piece.
Investigators found that around twenty-five students had bought the 'cheating bluetooth flip flops' from a gang for 600,000 rupees, which is roughly around R123,000.
There have been situations where imposters pose as student teachers to write the exam on behalf of the real students, even some cases where students procure the exam papers somehow and it is leaked.
But as time passes, they are becoming more and more tech-savvy in their approach to cheating.
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