Theft of SAT exam questions probed
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January 26, 2010, Tuesday
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SOUTH Korean police are investigating a local cram school suspected of using paper cutters and electronic devices to copy questions from the leading United States college entrance SAT exam and passing them to students.
The probe, widened yesterday, is one of several in South Korea in the past few years into cram schools thought to have stolen standardized test material.
Police have questioned four people working for an expensive South Korean cram school that guarantees high scores for its students taking the SAT, Scholastic Aptitude Test, that can determine entry into a top US university.
"The four smuggled paper cutting blades in erasers into the test center and worked together to systematically cut out questions from the test sheets," a police official said.
The group includes an instructor at the cram school and three college-aged students who were paid 100,000 won (US$87) to cut out various exam questions and record others on calculators, which are allowed into test centers.
The group, suspected of stealing test material for about five months, used the questions to help other students prepare for upcoming tests. They also sold questions to students in US time zones who would take the same exam several hours later.
The group that administers the exam, ETS, in 2007 canceled SAT scores from 900 test-takers in South Korea who were thought to have received stolen test material from a local cram school.
Parents in South Korea spend nearly US$20 billion a year, or about 2 percent of the country's GDP, on private education and cram schools to help students prepare for college entrance exams.
There are about 100,000 South Korean students at US universities.
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