Security Breach Exposes Hundreds of New SAT Questions

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Security Breach Exposes Hundreds of New SAT Questions

Aug 10, 2016

BIG OL’ BREACH: On August 3, Reuters reported the SAT had suffered a majority security breach: hundreds of confidential questions from the new SAT had been sent to Reuters from someone with access to the test, including 21 reading passages and about 160 math problems. Reuters did not publish any of the questions in its article, but did speak with College Board spokeswoman Sandra Riley, who called this a “a serious criminal matter.”

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