Police broaden probe into alleged SAT test leak

Police said Monday they are widening probe into leakage of the U.S. college entrance exam following a series of scams involving private prep centers in Seoul that receive high tuitions from students in return for guaranteeing high scores, according to Yonhap News.

Police have questioned four people, including an instructor at a private institute, over allegations of stealing a copy of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) at a high school in Gyeonggi Province near Seoul on Saturday.

The 36-year-old lecturer, who taught a test preparation class at a private institute in Seoul, told police that he took the test papers outside the test room to use them as instruction material for his students.

The investigation comes on the heels of a similar case last week, when another lecturer at a private institute was arrested after allegedly obtaining copies of the SAT test from a Thai student who took the SAT in Bangkok last January and sent questions to students who were about to take the same test.

The lecturer confessed that he helped two Korean students in the United States cheat on the SAT exam by sending the materials via email, taking advantage of time zone difference.

The U.S.-based Educational Testing Service (ETS), the organizer of SAT tests, strictly bans the disclosure of all SAT test