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SAT, ACT Testing to Require Photo IDs to Prevent Cheating
The SAT and ACT have undergone multiple changes over the years, but new security requirements will be enforced this fall as an effort to prevent cheating. Beginning in in the fall of 2012, students taking the SAT or ACT will have to submit photographs of themselves when registering for the popular college entrance exams.
The Washington Post reports that the key security upgrade is due in part to a cheating scandal that rocked several elite Long Island high schools last fall. (According to USA Today, seven New York teenagers were arrested in September 2011 after hiring a brainy college student to take the SAT in their place. In hopes of earning high scores on the entrance exam, the college student was paid between $1,500 and $2,500 to take the test while posing as the teenagers.)
Photos Required to Register for SAT or ACT
The submitted photos, which can be uploaded at the time of registration or mailed to the testing agency for scanning, will be printed on the students
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Melissa Rhone earned her Bachelor of Music in Education from the University of Tampa. She resides in the Tampa Bay area and enjoys writing about college, pop culture, and epilepsy awareness.