September 10, 1999

Turkey Finds Flaws in Scores on University-Entrance Exams

By BURTON BOLLAG

The scores assigned to hundreds of students who took Turkey's new university entrance examination in June were called into question last week, when officials disclosed that machinery used to grade the tests had not performed correctly.

Fethi Toker, who heads the state agency that administers the examination, said the errors occurred when an optical device misread the value assigned to each high school, which is one component that goes into calculating a