The Law School Admission Council, the official administrator of the Law School Admission Test, or LSAT, became intimately aware of the threat in 1997, when a University of Southern California test taker ran out of the exam room with his test book. A proctor chased him, but couldn't stop him from hopping into a getaway car.
Hours later, the thief sent the LSAT answers to two test takers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa -- where the test was just commencing -- via electronic pager. The proctor became suspicious when she noticed the test takers frequently looking at their pagers. She let them finish their exams, then contacted the LSAC, which turned the case over to the Los Angeles Police Department.
All three students were prosecuted in California Superior Court on charges of conspiracy to commit robbery. They were sentenced to a year in jail each and forced to pay $97,000 in restitution to the LSAC.
The LSAC retains experts in electronic surveillance equipment from Securitas Security Services USA Inc. to provide staff to administer tests, carry out security investigations and alert testing companies of the latest cheating gadgetry and trends.
But, for now, it doesn't use electronic detection devices. Jim Vaseleck, executive assistant to the president of the LSAC, notes that astute proctors, not gadgets, foiled the USC plot.
"We instruct test takers and train proctors that folks are not allowed to bring electronic devices into testing centers," he says.
Plus, he believes that low-tech cheating schemes, which can be combated only with astute proctors, remain a bigger problem. He notes incidents where test takers carved exam answers into No. 2 pencils, selling them on the black market for close to $1,000, or lined up different-colored M&Ms on a desk to correspond to answers of multiple- choice questions. "Electronic devices present more of a nuisance than a security problem," Mr. Vaseleck says.
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- Knock
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Pretty funny story, I got this from the LSAT blog.
- MrKappus
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I'm trying to figure out how somebody would explain the meticulously arranged four rows of ~25 M&Ms.
- Knock
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Probably just did it on a question by question basis. IE: each color represents a different letter; one person moves that color m&m to a pre-determined location on the desk, and if his friend/co-conspirator was lucky enough to be in the proximity, he/she can just bubble or circle answers in their test booklet as they go along.MrKappus wrote:I'm trying to figure out how somebody would explain the meticulously arranged four rows of ~25 M&Ms.
- MrKappus
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Hahaha that makes...a lot more sense. Clearly I'm not an outside-the-box thinker.
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Knockglock, I would do the girl in your avatar for a 180. It would be difficult, and a huge sacrifice, but I think I could muster the courage.
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- DC_Sportsfan21
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Re: Would you go this far for a 180?
no, chance I would do something like that too risky
- Knock
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Pfft. Me first, get to the back of the line!kalvano wrote:Knockglock, I would do the girl in your avatar for a 180. It would be difficult, and a huge sacrifice, but I think I could muster the courage.
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It's okay. I came up with similar and other brilliant schemes in high school lol.MrKappus wrote:Hahaha that makes...a lot more sense. Clearly I'm not an outside-the-box thinker.
- quickquestionthanks
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I'm just shocked they had such a shitty plan.
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The pager thing was dumb. Way too obvious.
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It would be cheaper just to study the old-fashioned way.
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Ya, but it probably wasn't as obvious as it sounds. You could assign A-F to 1-5 then send ~11 or so answers at a time as your return number. Would only need to look 2-3 times a section, which could be pulled off. I love how they were in Hawaii, though...I hope they flew there just for that.A'nold wrote:The pager thing was dumb. Way too obvious.
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