One Chinese city has taken it to the extreme by using drones above exam hall to catch any cheats during national exam into higher institution.
The drone will work by looking out for any suspicious radio signals from 500 metres above the hall, to stop students getting information via a hidden earpiece, reported People’s Daily Online.
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The new anti-cheating technology will be used in Luoyang in central China during the ‘gaokao’ university entrance exams, which are sat by more than nine million teenagers across the country every year.
The drone, which can fly silently, will be able to pinpoint the exact location that a suspicious radio signal is being received and tell invigilators via a tablet device.
It can stay in the air for up to half an hour and uses 360 degree rotation to scan an area.
There is intense pressure on studnets sitting the two-day exams because there are only 6.5 million university spaces, meaning roughly one-third of the students will miss out on a place.
Last year Chinese authorities released pictures of the James Bond-style technology used by students during the competitive exams.
These included sophisticated vests that link up to a button-hole camera hidden in a pen or watch, used to beam out images of the exam paper to someone outside the hall with a receiver.
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The person outside then looks up the answer to the question, and relays it back to a mobile phone hidden on the pupil in the exam hall.
The speech is picked up via the mobile, and then sent on to a hidden earpiece.
Officials have launched a crackdown on those helping students to cheat during the ‘gaokao’.
In the past, criminal groups have been found to be selling stolen exam papers and launching cyber attacks on exam board websites.
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