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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 3:49 am Post subject: TOEIC Test Cheating |
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TOEIC Test Cheating Detected
TOEIC test cheating has been widespread among examinees....
YTN, a 24-hour cable news channel, reported on Monday that its reporter posing as a TOEIC exam-taker, was able to receive answers on 155 questions out of a total 200 during the Sunday's test through cell phone text messages from an unidentified person. The reporter met the person two weeks ago before the test, who promised to deliver answers through a cell phone or small wireless hearing device. In return, he demanded three million won ($3,090) if answers were sent by cell phone text messages, or four million won if hearing devices were used in the cheating.
... Two employees from the International Communication Foundation, which conducts the tests in Korea with YBM/Sisa institute, sneaked out copies of the test to private language schools in return for money before tests were actually conducted.
By Lee Hyo-sik, Korea Times (February 27, 2006)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200602/kt2006022717031311950.htm |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 4:24 am Post subject: |
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I know what they should investigate: TOEIC Test Sucking Discovered
Seriously, who writes those things? They're godawful. My girlfriend just took one, and if she gets over 90% I'm going to accuse her of not understanding English. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:26 am Post subject: |
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| What's shocking is that YTN seems to think their reporter got a good score. 155 out of 200 is nothing to get excited about. |
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Xerxes
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Location: Down a certain (rabbit) hole, apparently
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:42 am Post subject: |
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| My god! This is disgusting news. Bad for the many Korean students that take the tests legit. ETS is going to be all over this one, and it won't be just TOEIC. It will also be TOEFL, SAT, AP. All those tests are delivered to testing centers a week before the test. The whole country will be suspect. |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 8:15 am Post subject: |
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| Xerxes wrote: |
| My god! This is disgusting news. Bad for the many Korean students that take the tests legit. ETS is going to be all over this one, and it won't be just TOEIC. It will also be TOEFL, SAT, AP. All those tests are delivered to testing centers a week before the test. The whole country will be suspect. |
Is the whole country already "suspect?"
Revamped GRE Will Be Longer And Feature Stronger Security Changes to Be Made by Next October, Will Address Cheating
... Security has been a big issue for E.T.S. since a 2002 incident in which an undetermined number of students in China, Taiwan and South Korea raised their G.R.E. verbal scores by logging on to Web sites in those countries and memorizing questions and answers posted by previous test takers. Later that year, two Columbia University undergraduates were arrested for using high-tech transmitters to send out test questions.
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V125/N48/48gre.html
Korea exam hit by mass cheating
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4064769.stm
Cheating on Police Exam
After the recent cheating scandal on the aptitude test for university admission, another shocking cheating case has been uncovered. In the state-run recruitment exam for police officers, some applicants were involved in organized cheating.
by Yong-Kyun Jeong, Donga.com (December 31, 2004)
http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=2005010178698
Teachers, Principals Involved in Manipulating Students' Scores
Police on Thursday arrested two former high school officials and booked four teachers without detention on charges of taking bribes from students' parents to manipulate high school scores in 2001-2002.
by Chung Ah-young, Korea Times (February 24, 2005)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200502/kt2005022418082211970.htm
A Country of Liars
by Kim Dae-joong, Chosun Ilbo (July 3, 2005)
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200507/200507030027.html
Not Walking Globalization Walk
By Dennis Florig, Korea Times (January 8, 2006)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/opinion/200601/kt2006010821145054060.htm |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:14 am Post subject: |
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| Xerxes wrote: |
| My god! This is disgusting news. Bad for the many Korean students that take the tests legit. ETS is going to be all over this one, and it won't be just TOEIC. It will also be TOEFL, SAT, AP. All those tests are delivered to testing centers a week before the test. The whole country will be suspect. |
I do not have a link, but published news articles have outlined the long acknowledged gulf between the T.O.E.I.C. scores and G.P.A. s of Korean and Chinese graduate students and the amount of knowledge of the English language and major field of study brought by them to leading graduate schools in the U.S.
Go to Kangnam or Sinjeong or likely any other neighborhood in Korea. You will probably not look very long before discovering lots of places teaching pilfered copies of up-coming S.A.T., T.O.E.I.C., etc., tests.
After witnessing most of the so-called minority students get 'A' grades for clearly inferior work at Wesleyan University (Ct.), University of Toronto, and Dalhousie, one can not stop wondering if the Speech and Thought Police have intimidated the teaching and administrative staffs of such institutions so much that profs are afraid of awarding grades to non-caucasians on the basis of merit and merit alone. In your heart of hearts, you know the answer to this question already - don't you, Dear Reader? |
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anyway
Joined: 22 Oct 2005
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| I don't know about the speech and thought police, but I do know that international students pay through the nose to study abroad. That means one of them equals the same tuition as 2-4 domestic students. Of course, professors are going to be more lenient. Especially adjuncts who could be shown the door as a result of their principles. Tenured might give damn, but they're getting paid either way. |
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Moldy Rutabaga
Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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| ETS is going to be all over this one, and it won't be just TOEIC. It will also be TOEFL, SAT, AP. All those tests are delivered to testing centers a week before the test. The whole country will be suspect. |
Old news, unfortunately. ETS does not fool around; they no longer administer the GRE in Korea by computer because of cheating problems. I had to take the GRE last month in Bangkok while on holidays because it is only given twice a year in Korea now on paper only. Nice to know ETS thinks higher of Thailand.
Ken:> |
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Xerxes
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Location: Down a certain (rabbit) hole, apparently
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Moldy Rutabaga wrote: |
Old news, unfortunately. ETS does not fool around; they no longer administer the GRE in Korea by computer because of cheating problems. I had to take the GRE last month in Bangkok while on holidays because it is only given twice a year in Korea now on paper only. Nice to know ETS thinks higher of Thailand.
Ken:> |
That solution, having students go over seas to take the friggin SAT or AP tests, will really make studying in the US an activity confined to the upper income classes, for Korea. That's depressing. At least when the test was administered here, the kids could at least look forward to a scholarship chance, however slim that was.
Whoever is doing the cheating in such an instutional style, I hope that they are satisfied and well paid for selling out a bunch of kids for generations to come. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Xerxes wrote: |
| Moldy Rutabaga wrote: |
Old news, unfortunately. ETS does not fool around; they no longer administer the GRE in Korea by computer because of cheating problems. I had to take the GRE last month in Bangkok while on holidays because it is only given twice a year in Korea now on paper only. Nice to know ETS thinks higher of Thailand.
Ken:> |
That solution, having students go over seas to take the friggin SAT or AP tests, will really make studying in the US an activity confined to the upper income classes, for Korea. That's depressing. At least when the test was administered here, the kids could at least look forward to a scholarship chance, however slim that was.
Whoever is doing the cheating in such an instutional style, I hope that they are satisfied and well paid for selling out a bunch of kids for generations to come. |
They can always go to a Canadian university. |
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