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Q: China's answer to Cheating
From a news site in Australia I found this little gem
Bra ban ahead of Chinese exams
More than nine million students have packed exam halls across China for the opening day of the country's university entrance exam - with attempts to stop cheating even leading to bans on metal bra clasps
Students in the northeastern province of Jilin were banned from wearing clothing with metal parts, and education authorities installed metal detectors to clamp down on "wireless cheating devices", the state-run Global Times reported.
Authorities have become increasingly concerned about the risk of examinees using devices such as smartphones - some of which have become smaller and easier to hide - as an illicit aid during tests.
Around 9.12 million high school students were registered across China to sit the crucially important two-day exam, known as the gaokao.
The southern city of Guangzhou introduced dedicated lanes for vehicles taking students to the gaokao, local media said, while parents in China's business hub of Shanghai booked taxis a week in advance for their children.
Parents across the country visited temples to make offerings for their children's success, the Global Times said, while others were shown waiting outside exam rooms with food and drink specially prepared for their children.
The test has come under fierce criticism in China for putting enormous pressure on students.
It's also a symbol of educational inequality, with many low-income students whose parents have migrated to cities barred from taking the exam in their new homes
What next could they ban?
10 years 46 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
Well, really, do most of them even need bras?
crimochina:
yes they do. how else could they get those lumps protruding from their chest area.
When I was 14 and about to make the exam to go to high school in the morning I took the bus, enjoyed the 30 minits ride to another city. Than we write something, reply to questions of teachers, and than we wait outside the school. Almost no one have the parents there ... after we got the reply, that we passed and they will accept us, we was happy, and took the bus back. it was in 1993, there was no mobile phone that days back, so no call home ... And we did not cheat that much 
Traveler:
LOL. So a little cheating is acceptable in your eyes? That's like a thief saying "I'm a good person. I only stole a little money."
Nessquick:
No, we I did not. but my by-sitter got a rubber with some helpful notes on it :-)
And I do not agree with cheating. But as our teacher said : No need to remember everything. You have to know, where to find the info you need. And we do not have point system, they read every individual answers and see, what we really know and how we know it :-)
Traveler:
If some people cheat a little, some cheat a lot and some don't cheat (haha), then everybody is not being tested equally, so the test is worthless.
Nessquick:
You are right, for sure. But there will be always some cheaters, unless there will be some not that much political correct way of banning bra and stressful checking on entrance.
Any idea, how to make the world perfect ? 
