A police investigation into cheating during this month's national college exam has been launched in central China.

 

Police in Henan Province said they were interrogating the parents of two college students and investigating teachers. Police are also investigating in Hubei Province, as students from there were reportedly paid to sit the exam, known as gaokao, on behalf of others in Henan.

 

The scandal, exposed by an investigative program on China Central Television on Tuesday, sparked fresh concerns about flaws in the exam, which involved more than nine million students on June 7 and 8.

 

Cheating scandals are a common occurrence each year in China.

 

Five people believed to be college students were paid by organizers to sit the exam, according to the report. The organisers claimed everything would be okay even if the substitute students were caught.

 

They sat the exam in Qixian and Tongxu counties in Henan, where fingerprint recognition was used prior to entering classrooms. The organizers provided fingerprint films of the real students for the substitute examinees.

 

Despite measures to prevent cheating, this latest scandal has sparked fresh concerns about flaws in the system and corruption.

 

Gaokao is seen as the most important opportunity for students to change their fate. Some poor performing students take risks and turn to cheating.

 

Prior to this year's gaokao, police in Jilin, Jiangsu, Shandong and Hubei provinces busted a number of gangs accused of organizing methods to cheat, such as manufacturing and selling wireless devices, said the Ministry of Education. 

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