Glasses with a camera, a magic pen, and tracing paper…the latest cheating methods

The exam season imposed itself on students’ discussions on the social networking sites “Facebook” and “Twitter”, and youth forums, and the discussions monitored by “Emirates Today” varied, as students talked about how to organize study time, answer the question paper during exams, and the harms of staying up late. On taking the exam, while students shared pictures and videos of the latest cheating methods, including using camera glasses, a magic pen, a computer watch, and transparent sticky notes. And other innovative methods that take advantage of technological development.

On the other hand, the Ministry of Education stressed the tightening of supervision over examination committees to prevent cheating, leaking answers, and confronting students’ various innovations in cheating through various electronic devices, while educators confirmed that the methods of cheating in exams have evolved significantly from what was previously known, and cheating is no longer just a small piece of paper attempted. The student hides it.

In detail, Emirates Today monitored discussions among dozens of students, all of which narrated the significant development of cheating methods, especially with the presence of modern technological tools that facilitate the compression of study materials, as participants shared several pictures and videos spread on YouTube and the Internet, about the latest cheating methods in examinations, and they confirmed that most of these tools are available in the local market and come from East Asian countries and their prices are affordable for everyone, but they are sold in secret.

Participants confirmed that cheating methods have developed significantly, pointing out that cheating using technology began with the advent of mobile phones, using Bluetooth headsets to hear the answer and hiding the phone inside clothes. It has now developed and taken many forms, including compressing study materials, whether on pens or watches, in addition to To develop traditional fraud methods “rivets” and print them on sticky notes on water bottles, whether regular or soft, and shoes.

Students talked about medical glasses used in cheating operations, consisting of ordinary lenses, and in the middle of them a video camera that can only be seen with great difficulty, and at the end of the glasses near the ear there is a tiny wireless earphone that is the color of natural skin, and when a person reads on the exam paper, the camera It directly transmits what is being read, and there is another person outside the exam who transmits it to him via personal computer or smart phone, searches for the answers to the questions, and then teaches the examinee via phone or microphone.

Students also talked about a pen that can be used to write anywhere without any of the writing appearing. A ring is sold with it that emits a laser-like light. Once it is shined on the place of writing, the writing appears and once the light is turned off, it disappears. While there is another type of pen with a metal tip on one side that, when pulled, can be seen. A small piece of paper with a summary of parts of the subject book in small font. Some people also use a modern calculator on which the student memorizes the rules and methods to reach the solution.

Students pointed out the spread of modern wristwatches that include the feature of storing books in the form of pictures, so that the student can photograph the entire curriculum, browse through the pictures, and have a search feature by word. If the observer passes by, at the touch of a button, the camera returns to the watch and is locked with a secret number.

While another student mentioned that the latest methods used to cheat in exams, which were invented by the Chinese and rely on modern and advanced technology, are represented by a small device consisting of cameras and miniature microphones that are installed inside an eraser or ruler, and it communicates with people outside the exam hall, where the student receives During which he answers the answers by hearing them or by watching them via a screen installed inside the ruler or eraser.

Discussions by students on a social networking site indicated that there are methods and means of cheating that some female students prefer that suit their nature, including tiny voice recording devices on which the most important parts of the curriculum and the answers to expected questions are recorded, and the hijab helps to hide them, in addition to cheating with artificial nails, Small sheets of paper are added on which the student writes what she wants under her artificial fingernails, and they are removed when questions arrive, and the sheets are placed in rubber material and tied to the arm, in addition to writing the answers. With a pencil on gum and using an English symbol as a key to answers in Arabic subjects, in addition to using Arabized English by including some numbers as a key to answers, in addition to transparent papers that are pasted on exam seats.

For his part, the social worker, Jamal Salem, confirmed that the methods of cheating in exams have evolved significantly from what was known, and cheating is no longer just a small piece of paper that the student is trying to hide, noting that some students these days tell stories about methods that they use or that their colleagues have used, in which they interfere. Technology does not occur to anyone.

While the chemistry teacher, Salwa Hassan, explained that the means of cheating in exams have kept pace with development and new methods are being invented to camouflage the observers, and students are trying to use many and varied methods to try to cheat in exams, but most of them fall into the hands of teachers, which causes clear disappointment for the student, pointing out: During the Arabic language exam, a student was caught using a bottle of mineral water to cheat after printing some important information on it.

On the other hand, the Ministry of Education confirmed the tightening of oversight measures on exam committees to prevent cheating and leaking of answers via smart phones, and issued strict instructions to monitor exams and confront various student innovations for cheating through various electronic devices. The procedures include searching any student who raises suspicion.

While the Abu Dhabi Education Council affirmed its confidence in exam invigilators and school principals, and that it has all the means to combat cheating and maintain equal opportunities among students, indicating the existence of clear written procedures that impose order and define prohibitions within the committee, which include preventing entry by any means of communication, and how to deal with any… A case of cheating is detected, and it allows the observer to ensure that any student is free of any means that might help him cheat. For their part, officials at public and private universities, who preferred not to publish their names, indicated that surveillance cameras had been installed inside examination halls to monitor committees, ensure their commitment, and prevent any attempt at cheating, after cases of student cheating were repeated in multiple ways, and cheating systems developed in the recent period, indicating that they They had previously placed jamming devices on mobile phones inside exam halls, to prevent the use of phones for cheating, but they discovered new cases of cheating with advanced devices.