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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
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<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.
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</body></article>
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