College candidates beware of these "traps"

  The 2022 college entrance examination is about to kick off, and 11.93 million candidates will enter the final sprint stage, striving to hand over a satisfactory transcript in this life test.

However, some criminals also used their crooked brains at this time to spread false information, create anxiety, commit fraud, and even induce candidates to cheat.

To this end, the Ministry of Education, together with the Central Cyberspace Administration of China, the Ministry of Public Security and other departments, combined with some typical cases that have emerged in recent years, solemnly reminded the majority of candidates and parents to be vigilant and beware of being deceived.

Organizing cheating is a serious crime

  During the college entrance examination, there are often criminals who publish information on "exam assistance" online, claiming that they can provide exam questions and answers for candidates.

As everyone knows, organizing candidates to cheat in national education examinations such as the college entrance examination, providing candidates with test questions and answers, selling and using wireless cheating equipment, etc., are all serious illegal and criminal acts.

[Case]

​​During the college entrance examination in 2019, He Mouhao, a college student, posted an advertisement for "assisting the test" online, and 12 candidates from Guangdong, Shandong, Guizhou and other places paid "registration fees" to him.

He Mouhao contacted college students Nie Mouwu and Peng Moulin (He Mouhao’s classmate) on the Internet. The three worked together. He Mouhao was responsible for contacting and delivering the test questions and the answers to the questions. During the college entrance examination, 12 candidates were organized to cheat.

On June 8, the police acted immediately after receiving the clues and arrested He Mouhao, Nie Mouwu and Peng Moulin on the spot.

The three were sentenced to two to three years and six months in prison respectively for the crime of organizing exams to cheat.

[Regulations] The "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China" clearly stipulates that in the national examination stipulated by law, "organizing cheating", "selling and using wireless cheating equipment", "providing test questions and answers to candidates", "replacing others or letting others take their place" It is illegal to take the test by yourself”.

The "Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in Handling Criminal Cases of Organizing Cheating in Examinations" clarifies that organizing cheating in national education examinations such as college entrance examinations and research examinations will be directly identified as "serious circumstances" and punished by punishment. Fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years and a fine.

[Reminder]

In recent years, local public security organs, together with education departments, have continued to maintain a high-pressure crackdown on all kinds of illegal and criminal activities involving examinations, and resolutely "zero tolerance".

The majority of candidates must enhance their legal awareness, refuse to cheat in exams, and do not try the law by themselves.

Looking for someone to take the test will end up emptying both people and money

  In order to allow their children to be admitted to the ideal university, some parents have tried all kinds of methods, not hesitate to spend a lot of money to find a "way" for their children, or even find a "gunner" to take the test instead.

As a result, people and money are empty, and the consequences are very serious.

[Case]

​​In order to allow Xiao Chen, his nephew with poor academic performance, to be admitted to the undergraduate degree, Li and Xiao Chen's mother decided to spend money to find someone to take the test for Xiao Chen, and promised to pay 50,000 yuan for one copy.

In the end, Liu, a graduate student in a certain school, agreed to take the test for Xiao Chen.

As a result, on the day of the college entrance examination in 2019, Liu was discovered by the invigilator on the spot.

The police immediately opened a case for investigation, and the people involved came to the case one after another.

Li organized candidates to cheat, which constituted the crime of organizing exam cheating, and was sentenced to three years in prison and a fine of 30,000 yuan.

"Gunman" Liu took the exam on behalf of others, which constituted the crime of taking the exam instead. The parents of the student asked others to take the exam for their children, which also constituted the crime of taking the exam instead. They were sentenced to five months of detention and fined ranging from 4,000 yuan to 10,000 yuan.

[Regulations] The "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China" clearly stipulates that in the national examinations stipulated by the law, "organizing cheating" and "replacing others or letting others take the exam on their behalf" are illegal acts.

Moreover, the crime of taking examinations is a typical opposite crime. The criminal law punishes both the candidates and the "gunners" at the same time, and the conviction and statutory sentence are the same.

[Reminder]

Parents who help their children to cheat are not to love their children, but to harm their children.

The majority of candidates and parents should fully understand the harm and legal consequences of taking the test, and take the test with integrity, otherwise they will suffer the consequences.

Mobile phone cheating ruins future

  Some candidates often use the functions of smart phones to search for questions, translate and other functions to assist their learning.

But if you use your phone to cheat on an exam, you're doing the wrong thing.

[Case]

​​During the 2021 college entrance examination, a candidate illegally carried a mobile phone, avoided the entrance security check, and brought the mobile phone into the examination room.

During the exam, the student secretly photographed the exam questions with a mobile phone and sent them outside the venue for answers, but was seized on the spot.

According to the "Measures for Handling Violations of National Education Examination", the student was punished with disqualification from the examination, invalidation of all grades, and suspension of participating in the national education examination.

【Regulations】The college entrance examination is a national education examination stipulated by law.

The "Measures for Handling Violations of National Education Examinations" clearly stipulates that the use of communication equipment during the examination shall be deemed as cheating in the examination, and the results of each subject registered for the examination at that time shall be invalid.

The "Education Law of the People's Republic of China" clearly stipulates that if candidates bring or use cheating equipment or materials in national education examinations, if the circumstances are serious, the education administrative department shall order them to stop taking the relevant national education examinations for more than one year but not more than three years; it constitutes a violation of public security. Management behaviors shall be punished by public security organs according to law; if a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law.

[Reminder]

In order to prevent and crack down on the use of mobile phones to cheat in the national education examination, in 2022, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will jointly deploy the departments of education, public security, communications, and radio management in various places to take various measures. Measures to carry out the special treatment of "fighting mobile phone cheating".

The majority of candidates must know the law and abide by the law, take the test with integrity, and do not take chances, so as not to destroy their future.

Look for the authoritative official logo

  Before the exam every year, some individuals or training institutions take the opportunity to register fake public accounts to spread rumors from unofficial sources in order to attract attention.

[Case]

​​The 2020 college entrance examination was postponed for one month due to the impact of the epidemic.

From time to time, there are self-media on the Internet taking the opportunity to spread some so-called information on the arrangement of the college entrance examination. For example, if the self-media used the title of "The Arrangement of the 2020 College Entrance Examination Room in a certain city", it spread and spread false information on the Internet about the "2020 College Entrance Examination Room Setup Plan in a City", which was misleading. society.

The city's education bureau determined that the news was false information.

[Regulations] According to the "Regulations on the Administration of Internet User Account Names" and "Regulations on the Administration of Internet User Public Account Information Services" of the Central Cyberspace Administration of China, the Internet user account names registered and used by any organization or individual shall not spread rumors, disrupt social order, or damage society. Stable; public account producers and operators shall not maliciously counterfeit, imitate, or misappropriate organizations and other people’s public accounts to produce and publish information content, and shall not fabricate false information, distort the truth, or mislead the public.

Those who violate laws and regulations will be dealt with severely in accordance with the law.

[Reminder]

In 2022, the Ministry of Education, together with the Internet Information and Public Security Departments and a number of Internet companies, will continue to carry out the special action of "lighting the official website logo of authoritative examination and admissions institutions", so that the majority of candidates and parents can timely, comprehensively and accurately understand the college entrance examination of authoritative institutions information.

Candidates and parents should look for the official logo of the authority when searching for information about the college entrance examination online.

Do not believe false advertising

  There are exclusive "internal resources", "proposition experts" to teach, and "one-time pass" is guaranteed... Such admissions advertisements often appear in the publicity of various test training institutions, and many parents believe it to be true. In fact, these advertisements are to varying degrees. Exaggerated propaganda, fictitious teachers, false advertising and other violations and laws.

[Regulations] The "Advertising Law of the People's Republic of China" clearly stipulates that education and training advertisements shall not contain the following content: (1) Any explicit or implicit statement about entering a higher school, passing an examination, obtaining a degree or qualification certificate, or about the effect of education or training. Guarantee commitment; (2) Express or imply that relevant examination institutions or their staff and test-taking personnel participate in education and training; (3) Use the names of scientific research units, academic institutions, educational institutions, industry associations, professionals, and beneficiaries Or image for recommendation and proof.

[Reminder]

Candidates and parents should not believe in false advertising, which will not only cause property damage, but also delay valuable review time.

College entrance examination answers are not available for purchase

  Every year, criminals sell the so-called "real college entrance examination questions" and "top-secret answers" on online platforms or communication groups, advertised as "highly accurate", "refunds for breach of contract" and other tempting information, and require users in the name of "advance deposit". Pay first, and some send viruses to users' computers or mobile phones in the name of sending "sample test papers" to extract user information.

[Case]

​​In March 2021, Huang entered multiple QQ chat groups, falsely claiming that he had channels to buy college entrance examination answers, and sold the so-called "college entrance examination paper answers" to parents and candidates at a price of 15,000 yuan per subject. He defrauded more than 10 people in five provinces including Anhui, Shandong, and Hunan, and defrauded more than 100,000 yuan of money.

At present, Huang has been criminally detained by the police according to law, and the case is under further investigation.

[Regulations] The "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China" clearly stipulates that it is illegal to "illegally sell or provide test questions and answers to others for the purpose of cheating in the examination".

[Reminder]

The college entrance examination questions belong to the state's top-secret materials, and their storage and transportation are subject to extremely strict management measures.

The majority of candidates and parents must keep their eyes open, distinguish between true and false, and beware of fraud.

(Jin Haotian, our reporter)