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1995

US News
Computer Admissions Test Found to Be Ripe for Abuse

December 16, 1994

NY Times

The Educational Testing Service, which administers the nation's leading standardized admissions test for graduate schools, boasted when introducing a new computerized version a year ago that the test was nearly infallible.
Security flaw cancels graduate record exam

December 16, 1994

Chicago Tribune

Educational Testing Service suspended giving the Graduate Record Examination by computer until Jan. 3 after learning how some students could memorize questions to help others cheat later.
Computerized test hits glitch / Cheating possible on grad exam

December 16, 1994

USA Today

A computerized version of the exam used for entrance to graduate schools has been put on hold after agents from a test-coaching firm showed that it's easy to cheat on the exam.
Computerized GRE at suit's center a test-preparation firm found the electronic version could be duplicated. It told ETS. Now ETS is suing.

January 1, 1995

Philadelphia Inquirer

Educational Testing Service, based in Princeton, has filed a federal suit against Kaplan Education Centers for allegedly stealing questions from its high-tech version of the Graduate Record Exam (GRE).
Computerized GRE pulled after coaching company reveals security flaws

December 16, 1994

Associated Press

Educational Testing Service will suspend Graduate Record Examination testing by computer during the last week of December after learning how some students could memorize questions to help others cheat later.
Kaplan to stop sending test-takers to exams

January 4, 1995

Baltimore Sun

Facing a lawsuit filed by the Educational Testing Service, Kaplan Educational Centers has agreed to refrain from sending test-takers to memorize questions on computerized ETS examinations for the next two weeks, ETS said yesterday.
Computerized graduate school entrance testing reduced

January 6, 1995

Boston Globe

As part of its effort to reduce the possibility of cheating on the computerized Graduate Record Exam, the Educational Testing Service is eliminating about three-quarters of the test dates scheduled in the next five months.
Redesign of computerized admission tests is urged

December 17, 1994

Boston Globe

The news that students could cheat on the computerized version of the national graduate school admission exam because the questions are recycled so often they can be memorized has some people questioning the new high-tech look of the testing industry.
Computerized graduate test to resume

January 1, 1995

The Washington Post

The Education Testing Service said yesterday it will resume administering the computerized version of its Graduate Record Examination (GRE) Jan. 3.
Computerized graduate exam called easy mark

December 16, 1994

The Washington Post

The computer version of the Graduate Review Exam, which more than 100,000 prospective graduate school students take each year, will be shut down for a week this month because officials of the company that administers the test believe it may be too easy to cheat on.
Educational testing service sues exam-coaching firm; courts: suit charges that questions on computerized test were stolen by company that revealed its weaknesses

January 1, 1995

LA Times

Just a few weeks after suspending its computerized version of graduate school admission tests, the Educational Testing Service has filed a federal lawsuit against the company that revealed the program's vulnerability to cheating.
Graduate school exam back on-line at least 'til Jan. 22

January 4, 1995

Chicago Tribune

Yanked from beneath the noses of anxious college seniors late last year, the Graduate Record Examination went back on-line Tuesday, even as continuing security concerns prompted further cutbacks for the test, a widely required passport to graduate studies.
Grad school hopefuls face a cruel yule

December 24, 1994

Chicago Tribune

This is normally high-anxiety season for college seniors, what with deadlines looming for getting applications to graduate school in order.
Giant of Exam Business Keeps Quiet on Cheating

September 28, 1997

NY Times

The man on the telephone said he was a Louisiana teacher and had a stolen copy of the standardized test that Mr. Weston's company, Educational Testing Service, administers to teachers who want to be school principals. As the caller read off question after question, Mr. Weston's skepticism turned to alarm.
Kaplan illegally obtained test questions, suit says

January 1, 1995

Baltimore Sun

A dispute over computerized testing of graduate school applicants has led to a legal battle in Baltimore's U.S. District Court.