12 exams postponed in Turkey due to cheating allegations
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Kopya iddiaları sebebiyle 12 sınav ertelendi
09/08/2010 13:03:18
Professor Ünal Yarımağan, the head of the Student Selection and Placement Center, or ÖSYM, has rejectedallegationsthat the center did nottake into accountsa policeprobeinto cheatingclaimsbefore holding akeyexam.
According to the Anatolia news agency, Yarımağan confirmed that the ÖSYM hadprovideinformation to police about itsinvestigationinto allegations of cheating on the university entrance exam, or YGS, but said there had been no results after that andthusno need to cancel the test.
The ÖSYMmeanwhileannounced Tuesday thepostponementof 12 exams after the Ankara PublicProsecutor'sOfficeseizedthe center's computers to investigate cheating allegations in several central exams.
The cheating allegations firstsurfacedabout the Public Personnel Selection Examination, or KPSS, which was held in July. It was claimed that the questions weredistributedto a group of peopleprior tothe test. Allegations ofirregularitiesthen spread to other critical tests, including the university entrance exam and the open-education faculty exams.
After the new claimsemerged, the Ankara Public Prosecutor's Office this weekextendedthe investigation into past exams as well.
"As the computers at our center's test preparation unit wereimpoundedby order of the Ankara Public Prosecutor's Office, theconfidentialityof questions on 12 exams that were planned to be held before the end of 2010 has beencompromised. The questions for those exams must bereprepared,' the ÖSYM said in a statement.
Those 12 examsincludethe Medical Specialization Examination, or TUS, which was to be held Sept. 18 to 19 and the KPSS for high school , whichgraduateswas to take place Sept. 26.
The ÖSYM also said there is noproofthat YGS questions wereleakedprior to the exam.
Professor Davut Aydın, the rector of Anadolu University in Eskişehir province, said in a press statement Tuesday that theallegedcheating case on the open education exam was limited to oneindividual. Last weekend, one person was caught during the exam with an answer key. The media stories about the event weremisleading, Aydın said, adding that the cheating was notorganizedbut individual.
Three more people were meanwhiledetainedin the southernprovinceof Adana as part of theongoinginvestigation into an alleged gangaccusedof replacing unsuccessful examcandidateswith other people who could pass the test for them.
12 exams postponed in Turkey due to cheating allegations - Kopya iddiaları sebebiyle 12 sınav ertelendi
Professor Ünal Yarımağan, the head of the Student Selection and Placement Center, or ÖSYM, has rejectedallegationsthat the center did nottake into accountsa policeprobeinto cheatingclaimsbefore holding akeyexam.
According to the Anatolia news agency, Yarımağan confirmed that the ÖSYM hadprovideinformation to police about itsinvestigationinto allegations of cheating on the university entrance exam, or YGS, but said there had been no results after that andthusno need to cancel the test.
The ÖSYMmeanwhileannounced Tuesday thepostponementof 12 exams after the Ankara PublicProsecutor'sOfficeseizedthe center's computers to investigate cheating allegations in several central exams.
The cheating allegations firstsurfacedabout the Public Personnel Selection Examination, or KPSS, which was held in July. It was claimed that the questions weredistributedto a group of peopleprior tothe test. Allegations ofirregularitiesthen spread to other critical tests, including the university entrance exam and the open-education faculty exams.
After the new claimsemerged, the Ankara Public Prosecutor's Office this weekextendedthe investigation into past exams as well.
"As the computers at our center's test preparation unit wereimpoundedby order of the Ankara Public Prosecutor's Office, theconfidentialityof questions on 12 exams that were planned to be held before the end of 2010 has beencompromised. The questions for those exams must bereprepared,' the ÖSYM said in a statement.
Those 12 examsincludethe Medical Specialization Examination, or TUS, which was to be held Sept. 18 to 19 and the KPSS for high school , whichgraduateswas to take place Sept. 26.
The ÖSYM also said there is noproofthat YGS questions wereleakedprior to the exam.
Professor Davut Aydın, the rector of Anadolu University in Eskişehir province, said in a press statement Tuesday that theallegedcheating case on the open education exam was limited to oneindividual. Last weekend, one person was caught during the exam with an answer key. The media stories about the event weremisleading, Aydın said, adding that the cheating was notorganizedbut individual.
Three more people were meanwhiledetainedin the southernprovinceof Adana as part of theongoinginvestigation into an alleged gangaccusedof replacing unsuccessful examcandidateswith other people who could pass the test for them.