It's Over

Well, it's finally over. See that empty desk in the lower right hand corner of the picture? Thats gonna be my empty desk as I leave the exam early.

Thats right, no need to study hard for my upcoming exams any longer. It seems that the increasing competitiveness of university entrance has finally gifted us with High-Tech Cheating.

According to this article all I have to do to ace my exams is fumble around for a spare few thousand dollars to hire some Chinese "guns" to do the work for me. Imagine the carnage of a few muscular Asian 'gun men' using their ancient martial art of Lei Tai to run into your exam room and beat answers out of weeping academics with chain whips. Far from this, however, these guys actually hide in a van outside schools where "a student in the examination hall used a wireless microphone to read out the questions and received the answers from the van".

Awesome.

But how does one simply carry a wireless microphone into an exam? Well, "'cheating shoes' with transmitting and reception ability" allow you to read out the questions into a small microphone. Surely they could have been a little more imaginative with their merchandise? We all know Agent 86 from Get Smart used the old phone-in-a-shoe trick to overcome the plans of the evil Chaos agents, and this was back in 1965. Personally I'm gonna hold off until they bring out microphone implanted skateboards, or at least something equally less obvious to take in with me.

So good in fact are these Chinese masterminds, they have even began almost boasting to the police "adding that they (the shoes)-- along with cheating wallets and hats -- had proved very popular this year". Yeah, nothing beats committing a crime than committing a crime that brings monetary gain. Although there is the opportunity cost of spending the next 12 months in a Chinese prison to weight up.

Ahhh exams... so glad I don't have to worry bout them for another year after this.

Oh and also be mindful if you ever need to search the word 'exam' in google images, the first few entries involve rectal and testicular exams... maybe not the type of exams you'll need cheating hats and wallets for.

Beros.