<p>South</a> Korea cheating scandal hits university bids - CNN.com</p>
<p>A first - an ENTIRE COUNTRY has all of its SAT test scores nullified over blatant, rampant cheating.</p>
<p>I wonder how many previous students from Korea cheated like this and as a result, got higher scores and took spaces away from legitimate US or other foreign applicants?</p>
<p>Where’s Xiggi?</p>
<p>I am a little concerned that this will somehow affect students in the US. Below is a message that I wrote to College Board (I have not received their reply yet):</p>
<p>I am extremely concerned that my daughter’s June 2013 SAT subject test scores will be adversely impacted by the mass cheating situations in Korea for May 2013 tests. Since the whole Korea had its SAT scores cancelled in May 2013, they will need to retake the tests in June 2013. The SAT subjects are graded on curves, and since we all know that the Koreans do much better on Math and Science subjects than students in US (hopefully not because of cheating!!), therefore abnormally high participation of SAT in Korea for June 2013 will skew the scores that are graded on curves. In other words, US students that took June 2013 subjects will see lowered scores, especially for Math Level II, Physics, etc.
This is obviously a grossly unfair situation for the hard working kids in US that took the June tests. They should not be the ones that got penalized for the the mass cheating in Korea.</p>
<p>I didn’t think that foreign test takers got the same test as those in the U.S., so that complaint might not even be valid.</p>
<p>CSIHSIS, I hope you are right. DS took the SAT today.</p>
<p>If in fact some of the higher scores from Korean applicants from the past have been due to cheating, that might be negated in June. I am sure there is a lot of diligence going on in Korea now to make cheating is minimized in June. If that is the case, then US kids ought not to worry… if they are prepping as hard as their Korean counterparts and the cheating is pretty much eliminated, then no worries.</p>
<p>This article is from early May. There was already a long thread about it. I think the entire test was cancelled, not the scores.</p>