EXCLUSIVE: ACT cancels test scores in Asia after leak of essay question

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-college-testing-act-exclusive-idUSKBN12Y2NM?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

“ACT recently began shipping some of its test booklets and answer sheets in lock boxes to guard against leaks. But the use of lock boxes still is not universal, according to test administrators.”

– The lock boxes look intimidating, but are, in fact, flimsy and can easily be broken into with a screw driver.

“ACT’s chief rival, the New York-based College Board, which administers the SAT, has been struggling with its own security problems. The College Board recently notified an undisclosed number of test-takers in Egypt that their scores were being canceled for the October test.”

– The SAT can still be stolen at unsecured locations throughout Europe, South America, India, and Africa.

Hurrah!

The cheating is now truly a global phenomenon that will only get worse come 2017.

MARK MY WORDS.

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Must be the Russians.

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Cheating has been going on forever everywhere. It’s just easier to spot the cheating today with all the technology and social media available now.

I’m pretty sure cheating existed in the 80s. But exactly how do you share information with the clunky, expensive fax machines, pagers, VCRs, tape recorders, etc of that time?

70s was worse: 8 tracks!

:slight_smile:

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The notorious South Korean cheaters cheat so much on the ACT that they are being rounded up like cattle into one testing site now. They might as well reduce the number of sittings in South Korea to once a year as well.

ABSOLUTELY DISGRACEFUL.

Starting with the December 10, 2016 test date, all administrations of the ACT test in South Korea will move to a single testing site for the remainder of the 2016-2017 testing year. The move is being made to address repeated test material breaches in South Korea and reinforce ACT’s ongoing commitment to provide a fair testing environment for all students.

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The CB and ACT company should:

  1. Tripe the price of the SAT/ACT in Asia
  2. Use that money to stop recycling tests or hire proctors to deal with security
  3. Option 3 is to stop offering it in any test center that is busted for cheating.
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All tests in a given country should be voided if there’s cheating, maybe? That would put an end to it as the local government would need to step in.

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@markmeyes would it not be a simple measure for colleges to reject applications from South Korea (or any foreign country suspected of pervasive cheating)? Why go to all of this trouble?

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Well, it’s never really that simple, is it?

Would it be so simple as to reject every Muslim from a Middle Eastern country because he comes from a foreign country suspected of harboring terrorists?

Likewise, we cannot assume that the majority of Asians are cheating, although in my mind, hell the **** yes, they are.

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The ACT is totally complicit in this, as past Reuters reports reveal conclusively.