New York high school students caught being paid to take SAT and ACT tests on behalf of others
In late 2011, an investigation revealed that a large group of students from Long Island were involved in an elaborate scheme to cheat on the SAT and ACT tests. Twenty students were ultimately charged (5 for taking tests posing as other students and 15 for paying those students to take the tests as them), but officials say that as many as 50 may have actually been involved.
The students caught used fake IDs to gain admission to testing centers and were paid anywhere from $500 to more than $3,000 by their “customers.” As a result of this discovery, both the SAT and ACT tests substantially revised their testing procedures in 2012 to stop cheating of this nature in the future.
