Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Easy educational success: Cheat and avoid 4's

American students can catch up with their counterparts in Shanghai in furthering their education. The BBC reports how a Shanghai taxi company is keeping taxis with 4's in the license plate off the street so students don't encounter any unnecessary bad luck during this week of exams. You mean avoiding 4's is all Americans have to do? If only I knew this when I was younger!

The BBC also points out that "With more than eight million students sitting [for] the exam, competition is fierce and cheating is extremely common." I wonder what extremely common means. They mention a teacher getting in trouble for selling the answer key last year. Is there also copying from other students? Hacking into the scoring computers? Bribery of proctors?

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