<p>In 2002, there was a huge international cheating scandal uncovered abroad:</p>
<p>[GRE</a> cheating revealed abroad](<a href=“http://www.studlife.com/archives/News/2002/09/13/GREcheatingrevealedabroad/]GRE”>GRE cheating revealed abroad - Student Life Archives)</p>
<p>Although ETS subsequently took measures to ensure the integrity of the exam, many programs started discounting high GRE scores from internationals and instead focused on other, more telling aspects of applications.</p>
<p>And just this past July, Reuters posted this:</p>
<p>[Gaming</a> the GRE test in China, with a little online help | Reuters](<a href=“http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/27/us-china-testing-cheating-idUSTRE76Q19R20110727]Gaming”>http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/27/us-china-testing-cheating-idUSTRE76Q19R20110727)</p>
<p>This does not mean, of course, that all test-takers in those countries cheated, only that high scores lose their value as metrics.</p>