ANKARA – Hürriyet Daily News
Turkey’s testing body ÖSYM has abolished the controversial “candidate-oriented booklet system,” which was criticized for leading to a cheating scandal on the recent university entrance exam, or YGS.
The candidate-based booklet system will no longer be used in any exam, including the Undergraduate Placement Examination, or LYS, and the second leg of the YGS, which will be held on June 18-19 and June 25-26, the Student Selection and Placement Center, or ÖSYM, announced Monday.
Security measures were tightened at this year’s YGS exam by ÖSYM after the Public Personnel Selection Examination, or KPSS, questions were stolen last year.
The exam underwent a major renovation with a new system that produced a different booklet for each individual exam candidate, with variations in the order of questions and the multiple-choice answers.
The system was blamed by the majority of educational experts as the major cause of the cheating scandal surrounding the YGS, which took place on March 27.
The booklets will not thus contain the personal information with regard to the exam taker and will each be packaged in the printing house.
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office recently decided to proceed no further with charges over cheating allegations surrounding the YGS while asking for a probe into the much-criticized ÖSYM chief, Ali Demir.
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