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NATION, Page 23American NotesNEW YORKHigh School Exam Scam
For high school students in New York State, the Regents exams
are a crucial rite of passage: doing well greatly improves their
chances of getting into college. Last week thounsands of students
learned that much of their cramming would go to waste, when the New
York Post splashed the answer sheet to the Regents chemistry exam
across its front page. An angry state education commissioner,
Thomas Sobol, postponed the test.
The Post claimed that thousands of bootleg copies of answers
to various Regents exams were being sold for as much as $2,000 a
copy. A reporter was able to obtain the chemistry answer sheet in
15 minutes by placing two telephone calls. This was not the first
case of exam scam. A former yeshiva student was recently arrested
for selling copies of tests last year. If convicted, he could be
sentenced to twelve years in prison.