Word is that it was recycled–June '16 US, a test that has been pretty widely available on Chinese sites. That’s just what people here in Asia are saying.
Will the College Board never learn?
We should thank Manuel the Malevolent, whose nefarious criminal acts of corporate espionage and theft have depleted an already short supply of CB tests, and the New Oriental Cartel, which has been brazenly posting questions of unreleased exams on its website and distributing leaked tests throughout China to members of its criminal organization.
‘Bad actors’ trying to game SATs
China’s largest private education company has been subverting efforts to prevent cheating on the SAT college admission test, Reuters found. New Oriental Education & Technology has regularly provided items from the tests to clients shortly after the exams are administered. Because material from past SATs is typically reused on later exams, the items New Oriental is distributing could provide test-takers with an unfair advantage.
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HEY.
Are you sure the test was widely available on Chinese websites? I can’t find it anywhere after looking through at least 20 different Chinese websites.
And how come that Reuters guy isn’t writing any article about it?
I’m not sure, no. Just what I’ve heard. I also wonder if Reuters is on it or not.
The problem is that College Board / the ACT are taking advantage of non-profit status to rake in the money. We need to follow the South Korean model. ONE test administered by the government.
Maybe Reuters is not on the story anymore or maybe that guy quit.
If that’s the case, the College Board and ACT can recycle all the tests they want from now on and pretend like there is NO MORE CHEATING. That’s what they’re good at doing anyway.
In fact, maybe New Oriental paid off Reuters ten million dollars. Now we’re reading all these stories of how the Chinese infiltration of American universities is a great boon to the US economy and how the redesigned SAT is a great predictor of college readiness.
So what’s going on?
Will the College Board cancel all the scores of test-takers from China and Korea next week?
Can we expect an executive order from Trump demanding that the scores be invalidated?