<p>SO WHO THE HELL CHEATED AGAIN!? News reports confirm that the authorities are ONCE AGAIN investigating several SAT academies in South Korea that had access to the October 2013 SAT exam well in advance (apparently they knew it was going to be the March 2013 US exam) and leaked the answers to hundreds, if not several thousands of students.</p>
<p>Please post source.</p>
<p>Does that affect the US curve in any way?</p>
<p>In China, there is the same rumor, that someone reported the cheating to CB, and the Oct scores might be cancelled. I don’t know how many people will be affected. It is said that the authorities might cancel the scores of test-takers in Hong Kong Expo, the test center.</p>
<p>@glasscube Do you have the same test for North America? I have no idea about that… it is said that college board might lower the scores for composition… really have no idea…</p>
<p>There’s nothing on the internet, which shows that a bad reputation is always suspect.</p>
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<p>While your question regarding the source is valid, you can safely assume that the OP resides in Korea. Fwiw, when the test was canceled a few months ago, the news did NOT interest the english speaking media, and the news was buried. The only articles were local … but the cancellation was real. </p>
<p>Regardless of the decision to cancel or not, the facts that remain are:</p>
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<li>The tests are routinely reused abroad,</li>
<li>The large SAT outfits have procedures to capture ALL the administered tests through bribery, outright theft, or organized memorization of questions.</li>
<li>Cheating on the SAT abroad is rampant</li>
<li>It is a disgrace that little has been done so far to bring an end to this. The College Board will never do what is right, namely suspend all such tests abroad OR have everyone playing on a level field. As it stands, they use recycled tests abroad out of fear (justified) that the leaking of the test given earlier would impact the much larger cohort in the US.</li>
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<p>The ONLY solution to this problem remains in the hands of the colleges. It should be up to them to take the foreign results with a huge grain of salt, and only offer an admission subject to a retake of a similar test offered by the school. A test that wouldmostly check the English mastery of the student and identify discrepancies with the SAT scores. </p>
<p>The honest students should NOT fear a second test. Cheaters should!</p>
<p>So why don’t colleges complain about this? Could it be that they don’t care? Do they offer the same levels of financial aid to foreign students or are these students paying the full amount, helping to fund the financial aid offered to domestic students. (I know some colleges say they give the same level of aid to international students. But I don’t think that’s common, even if it’s true.)</p>
<p>And suppose you ran a college and decided to give your own test. When would you give it? Where? You don’t have sites all over the world. Maybe you could contract out the job to some private corporation who could even develop the test for you and then administer it internationally…oh, wait. Never mind.</p>
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<p>The video link is in Korean, but how funny that this particular Korean media outlet, one of the biggest in Korea, should actually use this thread in its evening segment as a type of partial evidence to literally “highlight” the cheating that took place on the October test! You’ll see what I mean at 0:57 of the video clip! For some reason, they had the decency to at least blot out my name but not so with sosomenza, the very one who questions the legimitacy of my claims or sources. puhaha</p>
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<p>Apparently, the scandal was all over the Korean news but nowhere to be found on any foreign site. Obviously, since this issue is domestic, it would take some time for foreign newspapers to pick up on it, as was the case with the test cancellation in Korea in May. But here is a brief translation of the 2nd link and newspaper report above, which is in Korean:</p>
<p>Controversy surrounding leakage of SAT test questions “AGAIN”…March/October Tests Overlap</p>
<p>There is once again controversy surrounding the leakage of test questions on the American college admissions exam SAT. </p>
<p>On the 9th, based on the claims of test participants and various academies, an undisclosed number of SAT academies in the Kangnam district were known to have had ilegal access to the March test, which they had used to teach in their classes knowing full well of the high possibility that the test would be used again in October.</p>
<p>Although ETS, which administers the SAT, strictly prohibits the disclosure and leakage of test questions other than the ones that they released officially, it seems that such gross negligence on the part of the ETS is a hallmark characteristic of the agency rather than a rare occasional mistake. </p>
<p>This is not the first time that answers have been illegally obtained or disclosed to students in Korea. In February, Seoul prosecutors obtained search warrants and evidence to indict 6 academies for illegal releasing test answers, which consequently led to the cancellation of the May test in Korea, the first time the SAT has ever been cancelled for an entire nation.</p>
<p>There are also rumors that foreign language high school students who had access to the October test beforehand had sold 4 questions to their underclassmen for $320. </p>
<p>The prosecutors are currently investigating the matter and one can only hope that the ship is righted this time around.</p>
<p>Sorry for such a title, but this had to be done.
There are official reports that say Korean SAT academies (Gangnam ones) have gotten U.S. March test illegally and this October international SAT was exactly the same one. So a handful of Korean students just took unfair advantages of the test…</p>
<p>Of course, those academies who vandalized SAT questions should be penalized, but isn’t Collegeboard a little too shortsighted?
I mean, what if some people took March U.S. test and then took October international test? They pretty much got a same test twice, and this in my opinion is a considerable benefit than other test takers.</p>
<p>Why would Collegeboard even RECYCLE a PREVIOUS TEST in the SAME YEAR? Is Collegeboard really relieved in the fact that America and Asia are far apart and International test is about 7 months later?</p>
<p><a href=“International : News : The Hankyoreh”>International : News : The Hankyoreh;
Check this article.</p>
<p>I took the march and October tests and they definitely weren’t the same. All of the passages were different or I would have noticed.</p>
<p>So you mean that you took US March test
and International October test?
That’s completely different from what I’ve heard from test takers in Korea.</p>
<p>"There are also rumors that foreign language high school students who had access to the October test beforehand had sold 4 questions to their underclassmen for $320. " hahaha</p>
<p>How about a unique SAT for each time zone? :D</p>
<p>Some FLHS’s, IHS’s, Kangnam Academies and Daechi Academies have been cheating for years.</p>
<p>CBoard likely has no choice but to cancel this test and it absolutely sucks for the honest students who NEED this test for EA/ED.</p>
<p>Nothing will happen to these schools, nor their students.</p>
<p>Wow, just incredible… I’m really surprised at this! That totally sucks for other students. I wonder if those academies would get some kind of penalty for their deeds!</p>
<p>A while back I talked to a student from China who scored 2300+. He said that you can buy there a compendium of ALL SATs administered since March 2005.</p>
<p>This situation is absolutely ridiculous for those who DIDN’T cheat, especially for seniors whose October scores may be their only shot at college! Mind you, we cannot take the SAT I in November anymore, at least not in Korea, so cancellation of the October 2013 test, should it really happen, would be an absolute nightmare for many seniors if College Board does not give some type of retest. </p>
<p>I think what is more likely to happen is that College Board will deny any responsibility in the matter and double the test-taking fees only for Korean students so that they can least extract a massive profit from this fiasco. In the end, it’s always about money and business!</p>
<p>And no, the academies are not being penalized much, if indeed any punishments are being meted out at all! If you look at the 6 academies that were investigated and charged with leaking illegal test questions in May, every single one of those academies is still up and running and has become even more popular amongst parents and students. Perhaps they were given orders to shut down or were fined, but I guarantee you that NOBODY who got caught cheating went to jail!</p>
<p>WHAT AN ABSOLUTE FIASCO!</p>
<p>They pimp the SAT tests in Korea like they slang crack cocaine in the black ghettos of America!</p>