The “hidden earpiece,” as you can see in the photo, is actually rather large. This indicates that those who are giving the test are completely indifferent to the cheating. In some cases, of course, the earpiece would be hidden under a hijab or niqab, and no non-Muslim in Britain would dare ask a Muslim woman to take off her headscarf so as to ensure that no cheating was going on. That would be “Islamophobic.”
“UK citizenship tests: Gangs help cheating candidates pass,” by Guy Lynn, Matt Bardo and Syed Fayaz, BBC, February 4, 2019 (thanks to Paul):
Gangs are helping foreign nationals cheat their UK citizenship application test with the use of earpieces, a BBC investigation has revealed.
For a fee of up to £2,000, criminals secretly listen in and, via a hidden earpiece, give the answers to those taking the Life in the UK test.
Such an operation was secretly filmed by a BBC journalist, who was given help to pass.
The test is failed by about one in five would-be British citizens.
The Home Office said it took any cheating “extremely seriously”.
A pass in the test, which assesses candidates’ knowledge of UK laws, history and society, is usually required as part of the process to secure UK citizenship or indefinite leave to remain.
The number of applications for citizenship made by EU nationals rose by 32% last year and the BBC heard some were paying criminals to cheat the Life in the UK test, as anxiety grows over citizenship rights post-Brexit.
One woman told the BBC she decided to cheat after failing first time around, saying she “felt so much panic” about her situation….
The test, which is taken on a computer and has a pass mark of at least 18 correct answers, is supposed to be held under strict exam conditions….
BBC researchers were able to access organised cheating when they went undercover at training academies in and around London, where candidates take classes to prepare for the test.
Masoud Abul Raza runs the Ideal Learning Academy in east London.
He was filmed telling an undercover researcher that he could guarantee a pass.
“You have to spend nearly £2,000. This is the business, it’s completely hidden. But you are getting a result,” he said.
Mr Abul Raza and his gang later provided the undercover researcher with a hidden two-way earpiece, linked wirelessly through a Bluetooth connection to a concealed mobile phone with an open line. This meant the gang outside could hear the audio feed of the test questions and provide the answers.
“Everything will be arranged. He will give you the answer,” Mr Abul Raza told the undercover journalist.
Tony Smith, the former director general of the UK Border Force, was shown the secretly recorded footage and described it as “clear and blatant cheating by an organised crime gang”….
The BBC heard reports of other training academies doing the same thing, with the same method of cheating having been used at testing centres around the UK.
At the English Language Training Academy (ELTA) in east London, Ashraf Rahman told the BBC’s undercover researcher that he had arranged cheating in Birmingham and Manchester, as well as London.
“I’ve been here for five years and no-one gets caught,” he said.
Mr Rahman later denied he arranged cheating, claiming he was just discussing what others did….
Tom says
I guess the next step will be “guaranteed” university degrees so immigrants can get top jobs in the UK. Anyone who believes this kind of cheating isn’t also happening in Canada is living in a dream world.
When people come from societies and cultures where lying and cheating is a common practice to a society that bases its cultural norms on honor and honesty, the latter will always be the loser.
Third world countries are rife with behaviour that the west does not accept as part of society and those from the third world will almost always use their experiences to circumvent western standards of ethical and moral behaviour.
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
observer says
Just as there is technology to down ruddy drones at airports, so there must be some technology to intercept bluetooth devices where UK citizenship tests take place.
Problem is we’ll only be a step-ahead until they pull their next sleight-of-hand trick or of the bag.
Amazing to think people don’t believe in evil…
I recall once being told that if you want to understand the criminal mind you have to begin to +think like a criminal.+ It was mindbending to hear that …….. but today I believe it is true.
The problem in the West is that too few +see+ the criminals in their midst !
gravenimage says
UK: Muslim organization caught helping migrants cheat on citizenship test
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*Disgusting*.
And at a fee of up to £2,000, this is hardly being used by the poverty-stricken.
Georg says
“One woman told the BBC she decided to cheat after failing first time around, saying she ‘felt so much panic’ about her situation….”
Why would she feel “panic” concerning the prospect of leaving a racist, free-market nation of kafirs and returning to a land of her “brothers and sisters?” Doesn’t add up.
Stephen Goldspink says
Why would a muslim or anyone from a non-Christian faith need to cheat? Most of the questions are politically correct and right up their street. I’d need to cheat – I’m 60 years a citizen, born here, but the questions on the test are alien in nature – not about Britishness at all, unless that is aggravated multiculturism.
A_M_Swallow says
The examination conditions will be based on those used in schools when British children sit their ‘O’ level exams at 16. Although a child cheating using a radio link has appeared in comics for decades in real life it was never viable because walkie-talkies were too big, exams were held in silence and normally the school hall was too far from the road.
Measures to eliminate this cheat. Candidates can be searched. The examiners can be given radio receivers covering Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, walkie-talkies and mobile phone frequencies. The test rooms can be converted into Faraday cages – cover the walls, roof, floor and windows with metal kitchen foil and earth it. (This is the third class method that works for a day, proper electromagnetic insulation can be purchased and fitted.)
gravenimage says
Or we could just stop Muslims from flooding in…
IanB says
The only thing that surprises me about this is that the BBC reported it.
gravenimage says
Surprised me, too.
ivan says
I seem to remember the BBC telling Theresa May (as Home Secretary) a few years ago about Pakistanis cheating on tests, they would also lock the school gates and door so that inspectors could not do surprise checks. And she and the Government have done nothing!!!
Paul says
It seems to me these test centres must be set up to accommodate cheating. I recently renewed my Construction Safety certification at a computer test centre in the UK; others were undertaking driving theory tests, and so on, at the same place. None of us were allowed to take ANYTHING into the test room. I had to deposit my wrist watch (old fashioned clock work), comb, handkerchief and car keys in a locker, and literally turn out my pockets and roll up my shirt sleeves to demonstrate I was not concealing anything. If these citizen test places are not doing those sorts of checks, it cannot be accidental.
dan christensen says
Most mosques in Europe routinely assists their muslims, by informing them on every dirty trick in the book to wring welfare money from their host countries.
How to cheat with VAT and taxes – how to lie to the authorities in order to obtain citizenships – how to play victim and so on.
Most muslims are not directly criminal; but count your fingers after shaking hands with one of them.
Better for everybody to kick them all out before the religious civil wars bound to come, than deporting them forcibly after the civil war is won.