SSAT Scores for Chinese Students Canceled from September 19 Test

SSAT Scores for Chinese Students Canceled from September 19 Test
Oct 21, 2015 By eChinacities.com

All results for Chinese candidates who took the United States high school entrance exam (SSAT) on September 13 were canceled because the examination board had doubts about the irregular number of high-scoring candidates.

The matter is currently under investigation and the SSAT board has not issued an official message.

The SSAT test is the entrance exam for private schools in the United States, and Canada. The most elite private schools in the United States only accept two percent of applicants and are known as the “Little Ivies.”

It is extremely difficult for American students to get a high score on the exam, however a large number of Chinese students earned almost perfect scores. This has led the examination board to question the validity of Chinese students’ scores.

Source: inews.qq.com

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Garbo

Just kick out the students after a year.

Oct 23, 2015 04:41 Report Abuse

Englteachted

Simple, hire and train about 20 qualified Americans to work part time as test proctors.

Oct 22, 2015 09:02 Report Abuse

Garbo

I had met students in China '"studying " for that exam. I asked them where they got the answers . They just smiled . Then I told them that was considered cheating. I told them answers aren't given before exams like they are here.

Oct 22, 2015 02:21 Report Abuse

dongbeiren

I can't make this shit up - I know a girl in China who took the SAT and got a 2130, a really good score that is on the low end of what Ivy League schools expect. I couldn't believe it because her English is not totally fluent so I asked her about her strategy on the reading comp. She told me that she would look at the questions first.... ok fair enough some test prep people suggest looking at the questions before reading the passage. But wait. Look at the questions first because she had already seen a lot of the questions at New Oriental the week before. So the strategy was to pick the answers because she had been given them already. This brilliant strategy apparently worked for about 60% of the questions. The strategy for the other 40%? Go back to the passage, read it and try to answer the questions. It's a shame I can't teach that strategy to my SAT students seeing as I haven't managed to get my hands on the questions ahead of time whereas certain well connected "schools" have them.

Oct 21, 2015 22:03 Report Abuse

RiriRiri

How about a nice cup of "we fucking told you this would happen and now here you are".

Oct 21, 2015 18:51 Report Abuse

talkword

Because who has 2000 USD for a round trip plane tickets to just take a test?

Oct 21, 2015 17:29 Report Abuse

Stiggs

I partly agree with you but, if you're looking to send your kid to the U.S to study it's going to be expensive. Really expensive. I don't think the type of people who do that would worry about another $2000. I don't think they should need to fly to the States to do the test though, if it's worth making the test available to the Chinese public - and it obviously is - then it's worth hiring some reliable people to come to China and run it.

Oct 21, 2015 20:10 Report Abuse

dkappy

Not to mention the crazy-high prices these students pay to even take the test. I also know that for Chinese students taking the IELTS test, scores can be canceled without explanation, students do not receive their money back, and only have the option to pay an additional 500RMB for the IELTS company to look into the matter further.

Oct 27, 2015 18:20 Report Abuse

Guest593844

It sounds like there's a cheating scandal! Why not just make these students test in America? Or why not pay an American test administrator -- who the students have never seen -- to fly over and administer the test. Surely you cannot trust letting these education centers run the test. That's ludicrous. If all the Chinese students tested so well, then why then is China not at the forefront of driver-less cars, trips to Mars, financial systems, etc?

Oct 21, 2015 16:09 Report Abuse