Brazil exam cheats caught using " pager " watches .
RIO DE JANEIRO 1996-12-06
Brazilian students have been caught cheating in university entrance exams by using digital watches which gave the correct answers to test questions , a newspaper said on Friday .
Rio de Janeiro state university officials discovered students were paying 15,000 reais ( $ 14,563 ) for the special watches , which operated like a telephone pager to receive correct answers , O Globo said .
Seventy-seven students were found with the watches and disqualified , O Globo said .