Japan student admits to leaking university entrance exam questions two years in a row

A 19-year-old college pupil has admitted to leaking questions from Japanese unified college entrance examinations she took for 2 years in a row, investigative sources stated Saturday.

Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Division had despatched recordsdata on the lady, who lives in Osaka Prefecture, to public prosecutors on Feb. 10 on suspicion she fraudulently obstructed enterprise of the Nationwide Middle for College Entrance Examinations by leaking world historical past questions throughout this 12 months’s unified exams.

In line with the sources, she informed investigators that she leaked questions in the same method final 12 months.

The Tokyo police additionally despatched papers to prosecutors on a 28-year-old system engineer dwelling in Yokohama who’s believed to be her conspirator. He was additionally concerned in final 12 months’s fraud, the sources stated.

On the morning of Jan. 15 this 12 months, the primary day of the two-day unified exams, the 2 suspects allegedly leaked the photographs of questions utilizing the Skype app’s chat perform throughout the take a look at.

The girl turned herself in to Kagawa Prefectural Police in late January, simply after the incident got here to mild.

She stated she leaked questions as she needed to enter a well-known non-public college in Tokyo, the sources stated.

The girl defined that she contacted the person on-line earlier than final 12 months’s unified exams and used a smartphone throughout the checks to seize pictures of query sheets.

The person is believed to have transformed the movies of query sheets she took into nonetheless pictures and obtained greater than ¥100,000 as a reward.