On May 30, 2015, a Chinese website in the United States reported that a Chinese student flew from Texas to Southern California to take the TOEFL test because the TOEFL test on the same day in the United States used the same set of questions and the test started at the same time. When the test in Texas, which is in Central Time (EST), opened at 10:00 in the morning, it was only at 8:00 in the Pacific Time (PST), and there were still 2 hours before the test started. Candidates in Texas can take a break to find a way to pass questions and answers to candidates in California. Moreover, some candidates who are in mainland China even travel thousands of miles to Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore and other Southeast Asian countries to cheat.
In October 2014, ETS received an e-mail from an examiner in Bangkok, Thailand after the SAT test was over. The e-mail stated: "A Chinese girl secretly checked the iPhone answers and was caught by us. These answers are from Australia earlier in the day. The same exam held.” Australia is three hours earlier than Thailand. The SAT is also called the American College Entrance Test.
ETS was dumbfounded by this cheating method. In order to prevent jet lag cheating, ETS revised the topics. For example, there are now four essay topics in the writing section of the SAT, corresponding to the eastern United States, the western United States, the European test area, and the Asia-Pacific.
But even in two different regions, the repetition rate is still "high", which is far from preventing Chinese candidates from cheating. In the TOEFL test, this jet lag loophole was plugged in 2013. China is already the largest "supplier" of foreign students in American universities (31%), but ETS never announces the number of cheating by Chinese students. What we can know is that in addition to "jet lag cheating," Chinese students have also moved the cheating methods of local exams to overseas exams. These "conventional methods" still give Americans a headache. Chinese candidates will hire all kinds of gunners, who use synthetically forged, similar to their own ID cards to take the exam.
The World Journal, the largest Chinese-language media in the United States, reported that on November 9, 2013, a girl who took the TOEFL test was caught on the spot with a cheat sheet on the inner thigh. The girl initially claimed that she did not cheat, and then changed her slogan as "It’s all in China. "(Everyone does this in China).
This film is adapted from real people and real events, and the director himself smiled at the cheating of the teacher: I only dare to think but dare not do it.
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