Don’t let hi-tech cheats get away with murder
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Re: “Rectors mull moves to beat exams cheats”, Front page, May 10.
My sympathies go out to the honest students who entered the Rangsit University medical entrance exam but were victimised by what appears to be hi-tech cheating by fellow entrants. These honest candidates might now have missed their chance of clinching one of the 30 places on offer in the faculty.
So how can we prevent the injustice of cheating in university exams?
First, authorities can scan each candidate for hi-tech devices as they enter the exam room and confiscate any “smart” eyeglasses, watches, pens, etc, they find. Students should be armed with their own intelligence, ability, a 2B pencil and eraser, and nothing else.
Second, mobile-phone signals and other communications networks should be blocked within exam areas.
Third, an agency of hi-tech experts should be appointed to train proctors to spot problems like this and nip them in the bud. While such loopholes remain open, exam fraud is causing enormous damage, and is potentially deadly in the case of medical students who get away with cheating.
Sutipunt Bongsununt
