After a teenager went on national television to say cheating on the SAT and ACT tests was “easy money,” it appears the companies behind the exams got the memo.
His prosecutor called him an “academic gun-for-hire.” He took payments from other high school students, then took their college entrance exams for them. And Sam Eshaghoff, 19, told CBS it was “easy money.” Eshaghoff was the first of 20 students authorities — among them, a current Indiana University student — arrested in November on similar charges. He [...]
A burgeoning SAT and ACT cheating scandal in New York state has ensnared an Indiana University student. IU sophomore Adam Justin surrendered to investigators in Nassau County, N.Y., on Tuesday. Prosecutors say he’s one of four students who accepted payment from nine other Long Island-area students to take their SAT or ACT exams. Justin is one of 20 students [...]
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