I never took the SATs, I was an ACT kind of guy. But a group based in Seoul, South Korea are being charged with "Time Zone Cheating" on the college entry exam.
Two students living in the states are under investigation for reportedly receiving SAT answers hours before the US-based test was set to begin.
You see, the test is also administered in foreign countries in separate languages. Because South Korea is halfway around the world, an advisor in the oriental nation fed two U.S. high school students answers to the exams he received a day earlier.
A man, only identified as Kim, will be charged with interfering with a US-based Educational Testing Service. Not sure what charges will be laid, but maybe he'll lose a finger or two. From what I hear, the far east doesn't take kindly to cheaters and thieves.
The reason the man assisted the students????
The two students had travelled to Korea a year before to receive special training and experiences to help them perform on the tests. Kim said he "felt pressure to see them succeed on the test" after they paid him a combined $26,600 for a dozen classes.
Now, remember when you used to bring a cheat sheet to class or write on the palm of your hand??
Well you have nothing on this Kim guy....
Who hasn't commited Time Zone Fraud? You haven't lived untill you have. When I took the SATs we had to write them in the afternoon becasue everyone in the US and Canada had to write them at the same time. So they needed to be on the same time as the West coast. I guess you can't really do that with time zones that are 12 hours apart.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't matter..this guy went down huge...
ReplyDeleteBut really...the penalty can't be that much for cheating on a test, can it?
I mean..it's not like he's in North Korea or China...that would be a different story and he'd be up shit creek without a paddle..