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FistFace
Joined: 24 Mar 2007
Location: Peekaboo! I can see you! And I know what you do!
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 Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 7:58 am Post subject: SAT test papers leaked in Seoul and sent to USA |
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/05/117_45470.html
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US Looking Into Leakage of SAT Test Papers in Seoul
A U.S. institution in charge of administering the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), a standardized college admission test, said Friday it is looking into an allegation that some SAT questions have been leaked by South Korean students, Yonhap News reported.
Local media reports alleged that some South Korean applicants for an SAT test held in Seoul on Jan. 24 smuggled out test papers and sent scanned copies by e-mail to their acquaintances in the U.S. who were about to take the same exam a few hours later.
The U.S.-based Educational Testing Service and the College Board (ETS), the organizer of SAT tests, strictly bans the disclosure of all SAT test papers.
The allegation of test paper leakage, designed to capitalize on a time difference of about 10 hours between South Korea and the United States, has prompted ETS officials to launch a probe in Seoul.
The copied exam sheets are also believed to be widely circulating among private English institutes in downtown Seoul, according to ETS officials.
"The ETS headquarters are currently looking into the allegation of SAT exam paper leakage allegedly involving South Korean students," an official at ETS Korea said.
ETS will announce its probe result as soon as the ongoing investigation is completed, the official said. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Can you even take the paper-based test in the US anymore? |
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Intrepid
Joined: 13 May 2004
Location: Yongin
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| Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 7:08 pm Post subject: About time |
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This is common knowledge among the Apgujeong hagwon crowd. It doesn't even have to include leaking, the test takers here just "hoo-gi" the test, send vocab and the essay question to the US, and the kids who otherwise wouldn't be able to get a good score are on their way, having flown to San Francisco or wherever to take the same test.
Much bigger problem, and equally well-known in those circles, is hiring another person to take the test. ID checks at most test sites are a joke, here. |
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T-dot
Joined: 16 May 2004
Location: bundang
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| Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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Anyone surprised?
The proctors are a joke and have no idea what they're doing.. They lose track of time, they dont know no idea how to handle disturbances, and have no idea about the rules of the test they are administering. |
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moosehead
Joined: 05 May 2007
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| Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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| aren't all the tests varied tho? I can't imagine they would be the same. |
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FMPJ
Joined: 03 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 12:47 am Post subject: |
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| moosehead wrote: |
| aren't all the tests varied tho? I can't imagine they would be the same. |
They really aren't, sadly. The College Board is partly to blame for this: if they used some of their $50 million "non-profit" revenue to only give unique, non-recycled exams, stuff like this wouldn't be possible.
That said, the people involved in this nonsense are dirtbags and I hope they get caught--not that there's any legal recourse other than a public shaming, but still. |
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madoka
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 12:55 am Post subject: |
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| FMPJ wrote: |
| That said, the people involved in this nonsense are dirtbags and I hope they get caught--not that there's any legal recourse other than a public shaming, but still. |
Not true. LSAC (creators of the LSAT) showed that you could sue test violators into oblivion. They sued one man from USC for $500,000 for violating their test. Also in the early 90s I remember reading about the criminal prosecution of a man in Los Angeles who was caught giving out test answers for $$$. I have no idea under what theory he was prosecuted for though.
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Found a link for it, which described:
If convicted, (the cheating ringleader) faces a maximum prison term of 10 years and a $500,000 fine.
Though it did not specify under what charge. Whatever it was, the FBI got involved and busted him. He guy was caught cheating on the TOEFL among other tests. |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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| Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 6:17 am Post subject: |
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Just ban Koreans from taking the SAT for 1 year.
Problem solved.
Of course it won't happen. |
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Intrepid
Joined: 13 May 2004
Location: Yongin
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| Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 6:40 am Post subject: The GRE |
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| Ilsanman wrote: |
Just ban Koreans from taking the SAT for 1 year.
Problem solved.
Of course it won't happen. |
Actually, it did happen with the GRE. You can't take the computer-based GRE in Seoul any more, because people kept posting the questions online--you might know how the GRE/TOEFL/GMAT publish a "bank" of questions every month, and then one's computer test is drawn from that bank. The GRE bank was much smaller than that for TOEFL, and so it was immediately "cracked"--and Koreans who spoke no English all seemed to know "asperity" and "usufruct" and other GRE words... |
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T-dot
Joined: 16 May 2004
Location: bundang
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| Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 7:12 am Post subject: |
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| moosehead wrote: |
| aren't all the tests varied tho? I can't imagine they would be the same. |
they are different.
I think there are 3 versions given out to a designated area. So, people in the US do take the same test as the Korean students.
No way to guarantee the American kid ends up with the exact same test the Korean kid takes. |
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