More
than nine million students packed exam halls across China for the
opening day of the country’s university entrance exam on Friday —with
attempts to stop cheating even leading to bans on metal brá clasps.
Students
in the northeastern province of Jilin were banned from wearing clothing
with metal parts and education authorities installed metal detectors in
exam centres to clamp down on “wireless cheating devices”, the
state-run Global Times reported.
Authorities
have become increasingly concerned about the risk of examinees using
devices such as smartphones — some of which have become smaller and
easier to hide — as an illicit aid during tests.
Around
9.12 million high school students were registered across China to sit
the crucially important two-day exam, known as the gaokao, reports have
quoted the education ministry as saying.
Officials aimed to crack down on “sales of high-tech gear for cheating, and gaokao-related fraud”, the Global Times said.
Some
measures to ensure students reach the annual test on time can be
extreme. Pictures posted online showed an amphibious fire engine
ploughing through water to deliver a boy dressed in school uniform to
the exam in a remote part of Inner Mongolia.
The
southern city of Guangzhou introduced dedicated lanes for vehicles
taking students to the gaokao, local media said, while parents in
China’s business hub of Shanghai booked taxis a week in advance for
their children.
Parents
across the country visited temples to make offerings for their
children’s success, the Global Times said, while others were shown
waiting outside exam rooms with food and drink specially prepared for
their children.
The
test has come under fierce criticism on China for putting enormous
pressure on students, and as a symbol of educational inequality, with
many low-income students whose parents have migrated to cities barred
from taking the exam in their new homes.
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