SAT scores delayed in China and Korea amid suspicions of cheating

The Educational Testing Service, the company responsible for administering the SAT worldwide, has withheld some Chinese and Korean test results due to suspected cheating, The New York Times reported. Academic cheating has been a long-documented problem in both China and South Korea, with eight Korean “SAT brokers” being indicted last year and 900 SAT scores being voided in 2007. The recent instance comes at a particularly bad time, as many students are scrambling to meet early enrollment deadlines and are unable to as their scores are being delayed.