Credit card like electronic device used for cheating in Dhaka University entrance exam

It looks like a credit card but is not one.

Inserted with a SIM card, it becomes a miniature mobile phone that James Bond might fancy using.
 
It helps those taking exams to communicate with someone outside the centre and seek answers, a modern innovation to facilitate cheating.
 
A fast track mobile court on Friday sentenced a student to two years in prison for using this device during the entrance tests for Science faculty in the Dhaka University.
 
The punished student Hasibul Hassan Shamu passed HSC this year from Nilphamari Government College. 
 
While taking the entrance test for admission at the centre in Mohammadpur Model School, Shamu managed to evade the invigilators for quite a while. 
 
But in the end, he was caught by one of them, Mizanun Rahman, who teaches commerce in the Dhaka University.

A small Bluetooth earphone is used with the device, which feeds answers to the student from accomplices outside.

Shamu told DU authorities that two DU students— Farhad Mahmud of Institute of Information Technology and Physics Department’s ‘Shubho’— gave him the device.

During an interrogation at the DU proctor’s office, he claimed that he used to take ‘private tuition’ from Farhad (Mahmud) and a deal of Tk 500,000 was struck between them for supplying answers to the entrance test questions.

“We are trying to track down these two students named by Shamu,” DU Acting Proctor Amzad Ali told bdnews24.com.

As many as 71,000 aspirants took the entrance tests on Friday to fill up 1,660 seats in Dhaka University’s science faculty.

Ali said two more were detained in the campus for allegedly planning cheat using similar devices for Jagannath University entrance exams, which was held on Friday afternoon following the DU test.