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Two students were found guilty of fraud last week after one student asked his friend to sit his exam for him.
Qiu Shi Zhang, a third year economics student, asked his friend Xin Zhang to take his finance exam for him on Friday, May 11th. However exam invigilators caught Xin after they realised that he did not resemble the photo on the exam card. Xin was detained after Qui's tutor was summoned with police to verify whether the student was one of his pupils. Qiu was also detained after he was found outside the exam hall.
You now appreciate that this has been a rather nasty thing of fraud, totally unacceptable
The two were sentenced at York Magistrates Court on Wednesday last week. Joan Visick, chairman of the magistrates, said: "You now appreciate that this has been a rather nasty thing of fraud, totally unacceptable."
John Howard, mitigating, explained how Qiu had believed he had come close to a breakdown after he struggled with his economics course. He asked his friend Xin to sit the exam for him via the internet.
He said: "Xin is studying something completely different. According to him, the only reason he came was to get the tick to say his friend had gone through the examination. Xin sat there not really knowing what to do."
The pair were sentenced to 100 hours of community work each and ordered to pay £35 of court fees. Howard said that both the pair's academic careers lay in ruins and their years in university were a waste.
A spokesman for the university said: "Qiu Shi Zhang has been suspended and excluded from the university pending the outcome of the university's investigation into academic misconduct. The internal investigation will take into account the result of today's court proceedings."
