There's a reason that for-profit testing centers like Prometric forbid examinees from taking cell phones into the exam rooms - that policy prevents events like this:
School officials banned cellular telephone use after a student was caught using a camera phone to photograph an exam and trying to send it to a friend.
"All we are doing is stepping up the enforcement level, because of the student's flagrant violations," Principal Joe Rice said Monday.
Cheating by using camera phones and text messaging has become a nationwide concern.
Last year, six University of Maryland students admitted cheating on an accounting exam by using their phones to send information to one another via text messaging.
"I'm in detention after being given a flunking score on the exam - can you hear me now?"
Posted by kswygert at May 12, 2004 12:22 PM