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A 52-year-old mother who �dressed like a teenager� to sit her daughter�s end of term English exam has been arrested in France. The middle-aged woman wore low-waisted skinny jeans and Converse shoes to sit the English language baccalaureate in Paris. But a sharp-eyed invigilator who had seen the 19-year-old daughter taking her philosophy paper a week earlier realised the woman was an imposter and called police. She was arrested when the exam ended so as not to disturb other students taking the paper this week, a Paris police spokesman said. He added: �The mother was dressed in the casual clothes a typical teenager would wear. �She was held briefly in custody and freely admitted what she had done. She said she was better at English than her daughter.� The mother now faced fraud charges and a fine of up to �7,000. The daughter faced being banned from taking all public exams for five years, police said. The baccalaureate was introduced by Napoleon in 1808 and is France�s main school-leaving exam. Students usually take five subjects which they must pass if they wish to go to university.