<p>As you know, Collegeboard administers the same test for all countries.
Thanks to the time difference, people in later time zones can actually get help from other countries, and have other people take the test and tell them some of the answers. I personally don’t know of any incidents, but I think this could happen.
This time, it was an even serious problem.
All the information needed was that this test was going to be the same as another test, which the questions and answers were accessible through various methods.
The following is an e-mail I happened to find in the internet. I don’t know the source, I found it posted on another site.
Seemingly a SAT prep institute teacher from an asian country e-mailed
other asian students studying in the US (I think those who took the summer course at this institute or so)
I believe those asian students in US were able to get a very unfair advantage
over other students. I hear that this specific asian country will have over 100 students benefitting (scoring over 2350), and another set of groups from US benefitting (having even more advantage since stuff like this e-mail were sent to them, they could aim for 2400)</p>
<p>Here is an excerpt of the text:</p>
<p>1.Predictable foresee
2.Contaminate backfire : to have opposite effect one intended , with bad or dangerous results </p>
<p>3.Dispassionate devoid…
4.Mythical - Possibility
5.Mollified<br>
6.Flotsam<br>
7.Disposition - cantankerous
8. mercurial = unpredictable </p>
<p>Passsage1 wide
Passage 2 detail<br>
2. canoe trip </p>
<p>1.Desolate<br>
2.Hybrid
3.Stringent<br>
4. Positive<br>
5.Bucolic
6.Wrongheaded - chicanery </p>
<li>eliminated
2.Lax harsh
3.Succinct enlightening<br></li>
<li>a preeminence<br></li>
<li><p>Unequivocal </p></li>
<li><p>Movement </p></li>
<li><p>slang </p></li>
<li><p>venus </p></li>
<li><p>gloomy </p></li>
<li><p>ephemeral </p></li>
</ol>
<p>Dual passage </p>
<p>Comic book Passage 1 anti education( negative)
Passage 2 positive </p>
<p>Writing Part </p>
<p>Do individuals take more responsibilites of solving the problem than the government? </p>
<p>Section 4 ( 25 min. 35 Questions )</p>
<p>Improving Sentences ( 11 Questions) </p>
<p>Identifying Errors ( 18 Questions ) </p>
<p>Improving Paragraphs ( 6 Questions) </p>
<p>Section 10 ( 10 min. 14 Questions ) </p>
<p>Improving Sentences ( 14 Questions) </p>
<li><p>spend --time/money/energy —ing rather than —ing</p></li>
<li><p>both --------and ---------- </p></li>
<li><p>neither---------nor ----</p></li>
<li><p>For all ---- = With all — = In spite of ------</p></li>
<li><p>intervene in ------/ interfere with ------- </p></li>
<li><p>as a means of ----ing </p></li>
<li><p>at the risk of ----ing </p></li>
<li><p>effort to V / ability to V / ability in N </p></li>
<li><p>offer to V / offer of N</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Section 4 </p>
<li><p>spend time /money -------ing rather than -----ing</p></li>
<li><p>A, A’, B </p></li>
<li><p>-------ing, S + V … </p></li>
<li><p>to V </p></li>
<li><p>S + V + O + pp by X</p></li>
<li><p>S + V + that -------------- and/but that -------------</p></li>
<li><p>----------ing -----, S + V --------</p></li>
<li><p>S+ V …, with each of the members ----ing </p></li>
<li><p>S+ V …, because S’ + V’ </p></li>
<li><p>For all ----- : Despite </p></li>
<li><p>both A and B </p></li>
</ol>
<p>Section 10</p>
<li><p>so that —would — </p></li>
<li><p>pp. …S + V …</p></li>
<li><p>not -----until </p></li>
<li><p>at the risk of ----ing </p></li>
<li><p>effort to V </p></li>
<li><p>N whose N’ + V</p></li>
<li><p>will / would </p></li>
<li><p>ability in math and in foreign language </p></li>
<li><p>Through his novels,</p></li>
<li><p>Because S + V , S’ + V’ </p></li>
<li><p>the music of X ----------- that of Y </p></li>
<li><p>S + V , thus —ing </p></li>
<li><p>----ing</p></li>
<li><p>conclusions … and they </p></li>
</ol>
<p>% Error Detection — Section 4 </p>
<li><p>Cindy, Leroy, and me were so startled… </p></li>
<li><p>she writes early in her career </p></li>
<li><p>saw and believing </p></li>
<li><p>neither Leslie or her younger brother Philip </p></li>
<li><p>published more than 40 years after it has been — </p></li>
<li><p>workers are essentially a slave laborer </p></li>
<li><p>the revenue ----- they ------ </p></li>
<li><p>No error </p></li>
<li><p>the managers …holds us </p></li>
<li><p>the combination of strength and being agile </p></li>
<li><p>whose obsession with saving time and money are absurd </p></li>
<li><p>arrived to New York </p></li>
<li><p>No error </p></li>
<li><p>flights ----------continues </p></li>
<li><p>offer for assistance —> offer of assistance </p></li>
<li><p>No error </p></li>
<li><p>Ambiguous pronoun </p></li>
<li><p>No error </p></li>
</ol>
<p>30-35. Film Remakes </p>
<p>ECCAEB </p>
<li><p>purists those who ----</p></li>
<li><p>reviews </p></li>
<li></li>
<li><p>contrast </p></li>
<li><p>recognize — as —</p></li>
<li><p>Austen, too, V —</p></li>
</ol>
<p>this e-mail address was on the post as well.
perhaps the person with this e-mail has something to do with the whole
unfair process</p>
<p>also the e-mail talked about a new course opening at an institute and
that the writer hoped to have students enroll.</p>
<p><a href=“mailto:hs2260@columbia.edu”>hs2260@columbia.edu</a></p>