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The Japan News/Yomiuri
The Japan News/Yomiuri
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The Yomiuri Shimbun

University student provides details of national exam ruse

The Marugame Police Station in Kagawa Prefecture, where a female university student turned herself in on Thursday (Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun)

The 19-year-old university student who turned herself into police said she acted alone in the suspected leak of test questions during the national unified university admission exam on Jan. 15, and used a hidden smartphone to record the test questions, according to police sources.

The student, who lives in Osaka Prefecture and turned herself in at the Kagawa prefectural police's Marugame Police Station on Thursday, told investigators: "I did it alone. I gave into temptation [to cheat] as my grades hadn't improved."

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