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Postgraduate exam changed at the last moment
(Shenzhen Daily)
Updated: 2005-01-24 08:43 Some questions for the 2005 postgraduate entrance
examinations were changed at the last moment, the Beijing Times reported Sunday.
A postgraduate examinee does some last-minute
studying on his way to the examination room in Hefei, Central China's
Anhui Province, January 23, 2005. Some 1.2 million students took
this year's postgraduate entrance examination, a 24.1% rise from last
year. [newsphoto]
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The English-Chinese translation segment of the English test paper was
nullified as soon as the examination started at 2 p.m. Saturday.
Examinees were issued a sealed package containing the new questions worth 10
of the 100 total points.
The change of questions did not influence the examination schedule. Students
were busy answering questions and few had time to compare the old questions with
the new ones.
Examination organizers said they changed the questions according to a
requirement by the Ministry of Education. The ministry did not comment on the
change.
Some students suspected that the original questions were wrong, while others
thought the questions might have been leaked.
Some 1.172 million people sat the two-day postgraduate entrance examinations,
up 227,000, or 24 percent from last year. The examinations ended Sunday.
More university graduates are turning to postgraduate education, hoping that
further education could help them land a decent job.
Swindlers were trying to make money from desperate examinees, a Beijing Youth
Daily report said.
On Friday, the day before the examinations, advertisements appeared on the
campuses of Beijing University, Renmin University and Beijing Normal University
offering examination questions and answers for 10,000 yuan per test. Students
need to sit a total of five tests at the examinations. Three were organized by
the government, two by postgraduate education institutions.
The advertisements claimed to have obtained the questions through "special
channels," and published a contact telephone number.
A man surnamed Wang answered the call, promising to provide the questions and
answers after receiving the money.
The Ministry of Education said the advertisements were placed by
swindlers.
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