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Students use email to cheat during 'e-Commerce' exam
by Mainichi Shimbun
04/12/2002
Twenty-six students of highly respected Hitotsubashi University have been busted for using a mobile phone e-mail service to cheat during an exam, red-faced university administrators admitted Wednesday.
The incident, which took place in July during an end of term exam for the "e-Commerce" course, came to light because the cheating students made virtually the same mistakes in their incorrect answers.
One of some 550 students sitting the exam reportedly sent his answers to a fellow student via a mobile phone e-mail service, and his answers had quickly spread around the examination hall.
However, a lecturer in charge of the course noticed that nearly 30 students made identical mistakes and ordered them to resit the exam.
Fifteen students turned up for the reexamination. One of them was able to get a pass mark this time but 14 others returned a blank paper.
They admitted to the lecturer that they cheated during the original exam.
Administrators of the top Tokyo institution failed 26 students -- the student who sent his answers via e-mail, 15 who failed in the resit and 10 others who refused to take the exam again.
Original article appeared at Mainichi Daily News
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