Washington Free Beacon, How China Cheats Its Way Into US Law Schools:
Chinese LSAT preparation companies have violated the security of remotely administered exams for years, allowing Chinese nationals to access stolen questions and take the place of qualified Americans, the CEO of a U.S. test preparation company told the Washington Free Beacon.
The CEO, Dave Killoran of PowerScore, revealed that a Chinese whistleblower, frustrated with how easy cheating on the LSAT appeared to be, contacted him in May of this year with what he claimed were stolen questions.
The CEO, Dave Killoran of PowerScore, revealed that a Chinese whistleblower, frustrated with how easy cheating on the LSAT appeared to be, contacted him in May of this year with what he claimed were stolen questions. “After a review of those questions, I quickly determined they were actual LSAT questions,” Killoran said. …
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, LSAC has allowed students to take the test remotely. In China, online testing has spawned an industry of companies that bypass LSAC’s “remote security measures,” allowing cheating agents to take the test from anywhere in the world by posing as students and using fake IDs. …
Killoran told the Free Beacon that to solve the problem, LSAC must stop online testing entirely until it can find a more permanent solution. … An August announcement from LSAC indicates that the organization is aware of the problem. It said it would suspend online testing in China for all LSATs after the October sitting, citing increased concern “about organized efforts by individuals and companies in mainland China to promote test misconduct.”
Rick Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, told the Free Beacon that U.S. law schools should be “banging on the door of the State Department asking for a federal watchlist of nations that host or encourage this kind of fraud to help create a legal mechanism to help universities defend themselves against fraud.” The snag, he said, is that law schools “don’t care enough.”
