For the First Time, SAT Test Gets Canceled in an Entire Country

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<p>SAT canceled in South Korea due to wide-spread cheating.</p>

<p>Some 1,500 South Korean students who dream of attending elite American colleges are scrambling after the U.S.-based administrator of the SAT cancelled the scheduled May 4 session of the exam because of allegations of widespread cheating. It’s the first time the SAT test has been called off in an entire country.
Officials decided to cancel the exam after discovering test questions circulating in test-prep centers in the country, according to the Wall Street Journal. The College Board, which administers the SAT in the U.S., and the Educational Testing Service (ETS), the nonprofit organization that develops, publishes and scores the tests, issued a statement, saying they had made the “difficult, but necessary” decision to cancel the exam. “This action is being taken in response to information provided to ETS—the College Board’s vendor for global test administration and security—by the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office regarding tutoring companies in the Republic of Korea that are alleged to have illegally obtained SAT and SAT Subject Test materials for their own commercial benefit.”</p>

<p>For</a> the First Time, SAT Test Gets Canceled in an Entire Country</p>

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<p>How the heck did they get questions before the test?</p>

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<p>ETS and the College Board, shockingly, reuse tests because apparently 360K is too much to pay to make tests.</p>

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<p>It’s known that they reuse tests, but not often. Not all tests are reused as it only happens rarely I believe. Even so, how would they know the questions beforehand? It’s not like they knew which test it was going to be.</p>

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<p>From what I understand, almost all of the International tests are reuses (not sure if I’m right or not), and some test prep centres send in entire teams to memorise questions, or otherwise obtain these questions. Then, I’m sure it only takes the leak of a few questions on the real SAT to figure out which reuse it is.</p>

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<p>The test was likely leaked after delivery to the country. See [thread=1503407]this thread[/thread].</p>