There's been a bit of exam cheating going on in various countries as pupils take advantage of technology to get that all important grade. In my day (queue groan from younger readers) we would think about wrting some snippets of possibly useful informaiton on the wooden ruler we were allowed to take in, but trying to get the whole of Shakespeare's Twelth Night on it so I could write down a quote proved difficult.
In Iraq, they have got round this by taking down the internet during the exam. Sounds a bit drastic, but probably easier than policing everyone. In Japan they found some discreet cameras hidden in glasses, with answers relayed by anonymous experts to (I assume) some sort of other hidden device. The lad taking in the VR headset probably didn' get way with it.
But, like all situations like this, the incidents that are exposed are probably only the tip of the iceberg - a bit like the doping in sport example. Everyone (?) wasnts to win, and some go that extra bit further to make sure they do. I'm not sure its fair to compare exams with sports, but the outcomes are invariably the same - success.
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