The American college entrance examination answers were published online
4hw.com.cn: the American sat university entrance examination (commonly known as the "college entrance examination" in the United States) sent questions and security vulnerabilities. The national fair and open testing center, a supervision and research institution in Massachusetts, revealed that a few hours before the SAT biology test was held in the United States on June 1, the test questions and answers had been published on the website, and the institution also received copies of the test questions from anonymous channels.
It is reported that Bob Schaeffer, director of public education of the institution, said that thousands of students around the world took the SAT test on the same day, and the eastern hemisphere test began a few hours earlier than the United States; On the same day, he received an anonymous phone call from East Asia, which should be from South Korea, claiming that they had a copy of the exam in hand, and the other party sent him the whole document.
It is reported that sat is managed by the 'College Board', and there have been security vulnerabilities before. To prevent cheating, the University Council now transports test questions in coded and locked boxes. But critics point out that locked boxes are easy to crack, and many people make heavy profits from them. Xue fo said, "those who get the test questions can make a lot of money. Although no one has revealed how to do it, it is obviously not difficult."
It is reported that due to the continuous increase of international cheating, act, a competitor of SAT, has banned the use of pencil and paper exams in 2018. Act now only manages overseas computer exams. In addition, other examinations, such as LSAT for law school enrollment, are also developing in the direction of digitization.
According to Pritchard, director of the 'Kaplan test prep' university preparatory course, which prepares millions of students for the global entrance examination every year, he heard of the security vulnerability incident and said that 'students have begun to take the examination. In addition, there has been an ugly case of university enrollment not long ago. Hearing this kind of thing may indeed increase anxiety and worry'.
Officials pointed out that more than 2.1 million students took the sat in 2018. At present, it is unclear how many students saw the answer before the exam, and it is unclear how the National University Admissions Office will deal with this security vulnerability.