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20 Students Nabbed in NY SAT Scam

Mary Papenfuss — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:02:00 CST

Twenty students linked to five Long Island high schools have been charged with being part of an SAT test-taking scam. They were accused of accepting payments to take the SAT and ACT college entrance exams posing as other students over the last three years. A principal at one of the...

SAT Prep Classes Exaggerate Improvement, Study Finds

Katherine Thompson — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:27:46 CDT

Many test-prep companies make impressive-sounding guarantees about students’ SAT performance, but an independent study finds that the courses offer little real improvement. Part of the problem may be tutors’ use of too-hard mock tests to judge students’ baseline performance, producing a false inflation that’s used to justify thousands of dollars...

Throw Out SAT, Say College Deans

Jason Farago — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:28:11 CDT

Colleges should make admissions decisions without requiring the SAT or ACT, says a group of deans led by Harvard's admissions chief in a yearlong study that concluded standardized tests distort students' high school experiences, exacerbate class disparities, and enrich only the billion-dollar test prep industry. Instead, say the admissions officers,...

SAT, ACT Cheats Get Off Easy

Rob Quinn — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:44:46 CDT

College hopefuls caught cheating on their ACT or SAT exams are likely to face few consequences, the Los Angeles Times reports, due to policies under which the administering agencies simply cancel suspicious scores on the college-admission exams. High schools and colleges are kept in the dark about potential wrongdoing, and...