Parents helped foil an attempt to cheat on examinations during the first day of nationwide university entrance exams, media reported yesterday.
A man standing outside a Tainan classroom on Friday caught the attention of waiting parents by making frequent calls on the phone, a Chinese-language newspaper reported.
The parents called the police, who detained and questioned the man. The 25-year-old suspect -- identified only by his surname, Lin -- admitted he had been collecting exam questions and answers from four students taking the tests, the paper quoted officials as saying.
Ou Shan-hwei, director of the testing site, said officials confiscated notes Lin was taking about the test questions.
"The notes were very detailed, so it looks like a group of people were involved," Ou told a cable news station.
The suspect said that he passed the information on to a friend who was planning to open a cram school, the paper reported.
The friend wanted to use his knowledge of the tests to help recruit students for his new cram school, the paper said.
Media reports said telecommunications police were stepping up their supervision of students yesterday, the second day of the tests.
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