On July 3, six French college entrance examinees were detained by police on suspicion of cheating in math tests. Up to now, the number of suspects detained in this year's French college entrance examination has increased to 18.
On July 2, 13 candidates, including six minors, who took mathematics examinations in science, economic and Social Sciences and liberal arts, were detained by police in Paris and Marseilles on July 2, AFP reported, citing Paris prosecutors. At present, one person has been released.
According to the report, on June 21, the French Ministry of National Education announced that it had made a report on the grounds of "suspected problem-solving". After receiving the report, the Paris procuratorial organ launched an investigation on the charges of "cheating in the examination, breaking faith and concealing crimes", and entrusted the Paris judicial police's "anti personal crime brigade" to investigate, so as to confirm whether the above-mentioned candidates were informed of the examination questions in advance and the ways to solve them.
According to the French Ministry of education, the incident involved a very small number of senior high school students in three or four schools in the greater Paris area were informed of the test questions in advance through SMS or encrypted communication software. In view of the extremely limited scope of the examination, the Ministry of Education decided that there was no need to cancel the original examination results and arrange for the retest.
According to the 20 minute news, the scale of the incident may be larger than the authorities' assessment. On June 21, after the end of the French college entrance examination for mathematics, there was a rumor among the examinees that hundreds of candidates had known the test questions the night before.
The report quoted a lawyer for the detained examinee as saying that his client received a text message from a friend the night before the college entrance examination. But he did not make such a request to his friends in advance, nor did he know the source of the problem.
Who leaked the question? How many candidates got the questions or answers in advance? What is the scope of the problem release event? The report said that at present everything is unknown, waiting for the police investigation to reach a conclusion.
The full name of French college entrance examination is "senior high school graduation examination", also known as BAC system. It is highly praised by French society as the "national symbol", as well as the symbol of equal opportunity and school democratization. Since 1808, when Napoleon government passed the university organization order, French high school graduation examination system has a history of 210 years. Source: global network