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- <text id=89TT1693>
- <title>
- July 03, 1989: American Notes:New York
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- July 03, 1989 Great Ball Of Fire:Angry Sun
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 23
- American Notes
- NEW YORK
- High School Exam Scam
- </hdr><body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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