ACT考題泄露 香港韓國考試取消
SEOUL, South Korea — The ACT college entrance exam was canceled on Saturday for thousands of students in South Korea and Hong Kong, after the test’s administrator said it had verified a breach of the testing materials.
韓國首爾——週六，在美國大學入學考試ACT的管理方稱已證實考題泄露後，韓國和香港的ACT考試取消，數千名學生受影響。
The last-minute cancellation affected 5,500 students at 56 test centers in South Korea and Hong Kong, said Edward R. Colby, a spokesman for ACT. Students’ registration fees will be refunded, he said in an email.
ACT發言人愛德華·R·科爾比(Edward R. Colby)表示，最後一刻取消考試導致韓國和香港56個考試中心、5500名學生受到影響。他在電子郵件中表示，學生的報名費將被退還。
“ACT received credible evidence of the breach on Friday, June 10, and made the decision to cancel the test centers soon after,” he said. “This is the first known cancellation of an ACT test administration in an entire country.”
“ACT在6月10日週五收到可靠的泄題證據，不久後便決定撤銷考試中心，”他說。“這是首次出現整個國家的ACT考試被撤銷。”
News of the cancellation reached many students only hours before they were scheduled to take the test on Saturday morning. “Hotel expense, transportation fee, this is totally a disaster,” one frustrated Chinese student in Hong Kong wrote on Twitter.
很多學生收到考試取消的消息時，離他們原定於週六上午參加的考試只剩幾個小時。“住宿費，交通費，簡直是災難，”一名在香港的中國學生懊惱地在Twitter上寫道。
Overseas applications for the ACT and SAT exams are on the rise as more foreign students seek admission to American colleges. As more students take the tests, cheating on the exams has also become widespread in parts of Asia.
因爲希望入讀美國高校的外國學生增加，ACT和SAT考試的海外申請人數呈上升趨勢。隨着參加這些考試的學生增多，考試作弊在亞洲部分地區成了普遍現象。
In 2013, the College Board, which administers the SAT, canceled its test in South Korea after exam questions were leaked. It also canceled tests in China and Macau in January for the same reason. This month, a South Korean court fined students and officials of test-prep institutes up to 6 million won, or about $5,100, for selling stolen SAT test materials on the internet between 2011 and 2013.
2013年，負責管理SAT考試的美國大學委員會(College Board)在考題泄露後取消了在韓國的考試。今年1月，該委員會因爲同樣的原因取消了在中國內地和澳門的考試。本月，韓國一些學生和考試輔導機構的負責人因2011年到2013年期間在網上售賣外泄的SAT考題，被韓國一家法院處以罰款，最高金額爲600萬韓元，約合3.4萬元人民幣。
