SAT tests canceled over leaks
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THE company that oversees the registration process for the SAT has canceled college entrance exams scheduled for today in the Chinese mainland and Macau because some students might already have seen copies of the test papers.
The College Board, the New York-based testing firm, revealed the cancellations on Thursday.
Stacy Caldwell, the firm’s vice president for college readiness assessments, said officials told students on Wednesday.
The College Board said 45 testing centers were affected, but it could not immediately say how many students were due to take the tests this weekend. Those students will likely be advised next week about a makeup exam, which will probably be scheduled in a month or so, Caldwell said.
College Board officials would not say how many students might have accessed the SAT tests in advance, or how they did so, citing security concerns.
“Any piece of information we provide, folks use that to try to figure out ways around the system,” Caldwell said.
It was not immediately clear how many students were affected, but it’s likely that both Chinese and international students had been preparing to take the test.
As per Chinese government rules, SATs in China’s mainland are administered primarily in international schools, where few students of Chinese nationality are enrolled. Mainlanders generally take the test by traveling to other countries, or to Macau and Hong Kong.
To further complicate the issue, many international students could be Chinese students with foreign passports, said Beijing-based education consultant Jiang Xueqin.
Chinese parents are known to have secured foreign passports for their children to enroll at international schools.
“The culture is you do everything to get ahead,” Jiang said.
The latest scandal would further hurt Chinese students, who are known to have fabricated personal essays and inflated grades when applying to American schools, he said.
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