And the cheating emerged when a pupil, discovering that she had been shown theexampaper in advance, told a teacher, who in turn informed theexam board.
In this scam, a student in New York faxed the contents of an exampaper to another student in Hawaii who was taking the same exam on the same day - but at a later hour.
In particular the assessor's emails focus on the raising of the grade C boundary on the lower tier English exampaper by 10 marks between January and June.
Some also expressed concern that not all students will have the necessary skills to take theexam on computer, and the new GED test won't be offered on paper.
But when it became known that questions in the Lithuanian-language paper for this year's school-leaving exam were on sale in advance, there was an outcry.