Published: 11 May 2007
Exam papers will be tagged this summer in a crackdown on cheating, one of the country's biggest exam boards reveals today.
Edexcel, which marks 13 million question papers a year, will install a radio-controlled device in bags of exam papers held by schools.
The tag will tell it how many papers should be inside and whether there has been an attempt to open the bag before the exam starts.
In addition, the board's name is written in microtext (invisible to the naked eye but detectable through a special magnifying device) around individual papers, to deter photocopying of the paper - and its sale on the open market. A paper can fetch £200 the day before an exam, officials said. continue...
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