Guaranteed to pass the JLPT for 300,000 yen… “Astonishing trick” image of cheating support by a Chinese crook.
Answers are sent to your Apple Watch immediately after the test starts. ......
The display on the Apple Watch, embedded in a large eraser, shows the numbers to be filled in on the mark sheet – the “answer”. With the push of a button, the screen quickly transformed into an image that assimilated with the eraser’s design, making the display almost invisible.
This is a “cheat support video” sent to us by a Chinese vendor.
Within the community of people living in Japan that exists on the Chinese chat application “WeChat,” since around May of this year, posts with the phrase “Bao Man Fen” (meaning “full score guaranteed”) have been appearing in abundance. The word “JLPT” is invariably accompanied by the word “JLPT. This is the abbreviation for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test, which was most recently administered on July 2. When the author, posing as a test taker, sent a message to one of the posts, he received the following reply.
On the day of the test, all correct answers to all questions will be sent via SMS during the test. The fee is 300,000 yen; 150,000 yen must be paid by three days before the test date and the rest within three days after the test.
The video at the beginning of this article shows how to receive the answers. Isn’t this a new kind of scam? I thought so at the time.
However, on the day of the test, during the time for the N1 reading comprehension question, the highest level of the JLPT, several numbers were shared in the WeChat community that were believed to be the correct answers to all of the questions. Among them, there was indeed one posted by a vendor with whom the author had corresponded. Is this a vendor demonstrating his/her competence in order to attract customers?
This is not a “trivial matter in a private test. The problem of cheating in the JLPT is not a matter of trivial concern to us Japanese, since passing the N1 test is eligible for points under the “Highly Qualified Personnel Point System.
Foreigners who score over 70 points are granted a five-year status of residence as a high-level human resource, which allows their spouses to work, and after three years they can apply for a permanent residence permit, among other preferential treatment.
Under the advanced human resources point system, 15 points are awarded to those who pass N1.
