Chinese Universities Ban Bras to Crackdown on Exam Cheats

Chinese students have been banned from wearing bras in a move to stop cheating in one of the world's toughest exams.

Students will have to go through a metal detector before the university entrance exams, known as gaokao, as authorities crack down on the use of hidden gadgets like wireless listening devices. 
Any items of clothing containing metal - including bras with underwires or metal clasps - will set off the detector causing students to be stopped from entering the test.

Students with pacemakers or other metal implants in their body, including fillings, will have to provide a certificate from a hospital.

Those who fail a second test will not be able to sit the competitive exam, which will be sat by around 9million students today and tomorrow - and is seen as a make-or-break in terms of getting ahead.

The move is being pioneered by education authorities in Jilin Province, in north east China, who have dubbed it the 'silent gaokao' because the aim is that no students will set off the metal detector.