考试中:作弊与反作弊的斗争

似乎随着考试的越来越多，学生的压力也越来越大，作弊的情况也越来越严重。很多的专家都认为我们应该组织学生富人作弊行为，从学校到社会大家都应该一起改善这种情况。

When all is said and done, over 9.3 million students will have taken this year's gao kao.

The Ministry of Education says examinees, who are found cheating or plagiarizing, will be disqualified from the exam and will be prohibited from signing up for next year's exam as well.

Zhang Yakun is a teacher from a junior high school in Beijing.

She says punishment is not an effective way to stop students from cheating.

"Severe punishment on the behavior is effective. But sometimes the teacher, the school and the parent would rather not believe that the students are cheating, because they attach high expectations on exam results."

Zhang Yakun says for many students, cheating is like drunk driving. They know it is prohibited, but they feel lucky if they escape getting caught.

"Normally when I catch a student cheating, I don't see a repentant, but a face saying "I'm so unlucky.' Deep in their mind, they don't think it is really something seriously wrong."

Wu Zunmin, a professor of education from East China Normal University, agrees.

He says students should not be the only ones to blame. Schools should promote honesty. More importantly, the whole society should take responsibility.

"Being honest, like other moral standards, cannot be fully accepted by students only through school education, especially when they see dishonest behaviors in society. When they see there are many ways to achieve good academic results not by hard studying but through various cheating methods, they choose to cheat."

The expert adds that society should not take academic merit as the only yardstick of success. Moral quality is more important, especially for students.

For CRI, this is He Fei.