U.S. agency looking into leakage of SAT test papers in Seoul

SEOUL, May 22 (Yonhap) -- A U.S. institution in charge of administering the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), a standardized college admission test, said Friday it is looking into an allegation that some SAT questions have been leaked by South Korean students.

Local media reports alleged that some South Korean applicants for an SAT test
held in Seoul on Jan. 24 smuggled out test papers and sent scanned copies by
e-mail to their acquaintances in the U.S. who were about to take the same exam a
few hours later.
The U.S.-based Educational Testing Service and the College Board (ETS), the
organizer of SAT tests, strictly bans the disclosure of all SAT test papers.
The allegation of test paper leakage, designed to capitalize on a time difference
of about 10 hours between South Korea and the United States, has prompted ETS
officials to launch a probe in Seoul.
The copied exam sheets are also believed to be widely circulating among private
English institutes in downtown Seoul, according to ETS officials.
"The ETS headquarters are currently looking into the allegation of SAT exam paper
leakage allegedly involving South Korean students," an official at ETS Korea told
Yonhap News, asking not to be named.
ETS will announce its probe result as soon as the ongoing investigation is
completed, the official said.