60,000 cameras monitor Uni-examination.

Big Brother is always looking for: Ten million Chinese students must register with the university entrance examination of film cameras can. Because the authorities also fear the flu pigs, will be measured every day fever - an extreme degree.

 

It is probably the largest mass examination of the world since Sunday hatch back a good ten million Chinese on the national entrance examination to universities in the country. The candidates are 18 years old, the tests in China "Gaokao" referred to can be found on three consecutive days.

Because the "Gaokao" as the test is distributed over the weal and woe of the future careers provides access students and parents sometimes illegal means. In the spring of this year, some parents even threatened
Prison sentences because they had tried their children with technology and provided answers to examination by the locks.

This year, driving the authorities, according to a BBC report on additional technical equipment to students as overambitious parents to cheating and to prevent spiking in exam rooms installed 60,000 employees of the Ministry of Education cameras.

Extra rooms for students with flu symptoms

While in Germany the examination in the federal states on various dates to take place and it has always been due to shoddy preparation
Roadside comes, everything in China is centrally planned. The exam questions are considered state secrets and to be in Examenstag guarded by armed policemen kept safe.

In addition to the annual fraud trials are available at this year's "Gaokao" another problem: the fear of the beginning of May and arrived in China pig flu. The National Education Examination Authority and wants to play it safe. Each exam room will be twice a day, disinfected, and each of the ten million examinees must test before his body temperature can be measured, reported the state news agency Xinhua. For participants with flu symptoms, there are also separate examination rooms.

Before about 8000 test centers year by year, the agitated parents of examinees. They fear and worship their children may be performing well. The candidates seem to see the somewhat calmer: "The test was not as cruel as all previously claimed," said Ma about Yang, 18, on Sunday the government newspaper China Daily in Beijing. "It felt like a completely normal exam," he told about his tests in Chinese and mathematics.

Fewer participants than last year

The number of participants in the study this year was surprisingly dropped. The Ministry of Education reported that the number of test takers is less by 400,000 than the previous year. Reason is the continuing economic crisis in China remains
tense situation for graduates in the labor market.

"The myth that a university degree a safe workplace, is there," said an employee of a recruitment of the Beijing Institute of Technology, the "China Daily". In fact, were from the 5.6 million graduates from Chinese universities in 2008 are still around one million, almost one fifth, without work, Xinhua reported.

About 60 percent of school-leavers, the most "Gaokao participate, create it now to a university in China. The only places in the top universities in Beijing or Shanghai, however, is a safe way to a good job. Pupils whose parents can afford it, so many years looking for their salvation rather at universities in the U.S. and Europe. The only other remains buffalo - and despite flu panic and monitoring a good exam result.