February 13, 2004

Cheating Widespread on Afghanistan Exams

By DANIEL DEL CASTILLO

The government of Afghanistan has invalidated the results of university-entrance examinations for more than 6,000 students in the capital, Kabul, and surrounding provinces following the disclosure of evidence that answer keys were leaked and that corruption was widespread in the testing process.

"Here in Kabul, we have what we call the College Entrance Examination Mafia, and this is a network outside of the Ministry of Higher Education with possible links to some of our teachers and

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