Based on integrity, reject cheating, fulfill dreams in the college entrance exam, live up to youth

Compiled from: Ministry of Education, People's Congress Digital
 
Today marks another year of the college entrance examination. This exam is a major test for many students in China, and parents hope their children can be admitted to their ideal schools. However, as the exam approaches each year, information such as so-called "college entrance exam answers," "exam tools," and "pre-exam predictions" appears online to attract the attention of parents, all aimed at defrauding them of money.

 
 

Case 1: "College Entrance Exam Answers" Do Not Exist; Online Fraud Is the Reality
In May 2021, Anhui police received a report from the public that someone was defrauding parents and examinees online under the guise of "selling college entrance exam answers." After analysis and investigation, police quickly identified a suspect surnamed Huang from Jiangxi Province. In March of that year, Huang entered multiple chat groups via QQ, falsely claiming to have channels to purchase exam answers, and sold so-called "college entrance exam answers" to parents and examinees at a price of 15,000 yuan per subject, defrauding over 10 people across five provinces including Anhui, Shandong, and Hunan, and swindling more than 100,000 yuan. Huang has been criminally detained by police, and the case is under further investigation.
 
 
Case 2: Cheating on Exams Ruins Your Future; Do Not Rely on Wishful Thinking
On the eve of the 2020 college entrance exam, cybersecurity departments of public security organs across various regions successively cracked multiple cases of organized exam cheating. The criminal gangs involved used the internet to recruit cheating examinees, charged high fees, and illegally provided exam cheating services for substantial financial gain. Liaoning police solved a case of organized cheating related to the college entrance exam, lawfully arresting and criminally detaining over 20 suspects and confiscating a batch of wireless exam cheating devices. Police in Tianjin, Jiangsu, Guangdong, and other regions continued to investigate and crack down on manufacturers of wireless exam cheating equipment, destroying multiple production sites and confiscating over a thousand sets of specialized eavesdropping and covert photography devices.
 
 
Case 3: Posting "Placeholder Posts" Before Exams, Promoting "Accurate Predictions" After
Before exams, some social training institutions often set up title bars on website forums, QQ spaces, or self-media platforms, posting blank "placeholder posts" and hiding them. After the exams, they edit exam content obtained online into these posts and publish them. This creates a false impression of having obtained exam questions beforehand or "accurately predicted the real questions," using it as a gimmick for training and promotional publicity, seeking to attract netizens' attention and confuse public perception.
 
 
Relevant legal provisions
[1] Education Law of the People's Republic of China
[2] Article 79[3] If an examinee commits any of the following acts during a national education examination, the staff of the education examination institution organizing the examination shall take necessary measures at the examination site to stop the act and terminate the examinee's continued participation in the examination; the education examination institution organizing the examination may cancel the examinee's relevant examination qualification or examination results; if the circumstances are serious, the education administrative department shall order the examinee to suspend participation in the relevant national education examination for a period of one to three years; if the act constitutes a violation of public security administration, the public security organ shall impose a public security administration penalty in accordance with the law; if the act constitutes a crime, criminal liability shall be pursued in accordance with the law:
[4] (1) Illegally obtaining examination questions or answers;
[5] (2) Carrying or using cheating equipment or materials for the examination;
[6] (3) Copying others' answers;
(4) Having another person take an examination on one's behalf;
(5) Other cheating behaviors that obtain exam results through improper means.
 
Article 80If any organization or individual commits one of the following acts in a national education examination and has illegal gains, the public security authority shall confiscate the illegal gains and impose a fine of not less than one time but not more than five times the illegal gains; if the circumstances are serious, detention of not less than five days but not more than fifteen days shall be imposed; if a crime is constituted, criminal liability shall be pursued according to law; if the person is a state functionary, disciplinary action shall also be taken according to law:
(1) Organizing cheating;
(2) Providing assistance or convenience for cheating by means such as providing exam cheating equipment.
(3) Taking an examination on behalf of another person;
(4) Leaking or disseminating exam questions or answers before the end of the examination;
(5) Other acts that disrupt the order of the examination.
 
"Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China"
Article 284-1 Whoever organizes cheating in a national examination prescribed by law shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also, or shall only, be fined; if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years, and shall also be fined.
Whoever provides cheating equipment or other assistance to another person for committing the crime mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
For implementing exam cheating, illegally selling or providing the test questions or answers of the exam specified in the first paragraph to others shall be punished according to the provisions of the first paragraph.
Anyone who takes an exam specified in the first paragraph on behalf of another person, or allows another person to take the exam on their behalf, shall be sentenced to criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also or solely be fined.

 
 

 
[1] The author's perspective
The college entrance examination is a national exam stipulated by law, and its test questions are classified as top-secret national materials. Therefore, there are extremely strict management measures for the storage and transportation of the college entrance examination questions each year. As can be seen from the above provisions of the Criminal Law, selling or providing test questions or answers in national exams stipulated by law is illegal. Candidates and their parents should not harbor any illusions; the so-called "top-secret college entrance exam answers" sold online are often not genuine, wasting money and potentially ruining the child's future.
 
In Case 3, there is another new scam called "placeholder posts." This involves the scammers having administrator privileges, so they post a blank post before the exam and set it to be invisible to the public. After the college entrance exam ends, they fill in the exam content and set it to be publicly visible, creating a false impression that they had "predicted" the questions before the exam, thereby committing fraud for profit. The author reminds all candidates not to trust such false propaganda to avoid being deceived.
 
Additionally, illegally manufacturing, selling, and using wireless exam cheating devices during the college entrance exam is also a criminal offense, seriously endangering the security of national education exams and undermining social fairness and justice. Cheating on the college entrance exam can result in the cancellation of scores at the least, or criminal offenses at the worst. Do not test the law by selling or purchasing exam cheating devices, lest you ruin your own future and regret it beyond remedy.
 
The college entrance exam is not only a test of one's academic achievements over more than a decade but also a review of one's moral character. Here, the author wishes all college entrance exam candidates to face the exam with honesty and confidence, and achieve ideal results!