But the police are investigating whether they were also going to sell exam questions to other prospective test takers.
In those years, the police once questioned me for four hours because the head of a department in which I was teaching a course at the university had been accused of selling exam results.
ReprintsAt the end of the test week, Dr Deslauriers surveyed the students and gave them a voluntary test (sold as useful exam practice, and marked on a 12-point scale) to see how much they had learned in that week and what they thought of the new teaching method.
In selling an exam table that doubles as a device to measure bone density, G.E. trumpets the system's potential revenue: $30,000 a year if a doctor sees five patients a week.
It follows reports in the Daily Telegraph that some boards were selling their exam specifications to schools as easier to pass.
Giving employees only six hours a day to devise test questions instead of the customary eight changed the company culture for the worse, said Kline, co-founder of the St Louis, Missouri-based company, which sells medical exam preparation materials in the US.
Deals like dentists, guitar lessons and medical services (one Groupon offer for a breast exam sold 12 units) are more sustainable for businesses but are low frequency activities.
In describing the first of his several school expulsions, this one for selling final exams to fellow students at a Toronto private school when he was 14, he called the principal's wife a "desiccated old sorceress" and the principal an "insufferable poltroon".
The current, and proposed, changes have meant the CCEA ceasing to sell its exams in England, because the modular GCSEs it offers in Northern Ireland will not be permitted in England and it would not be cost-effective to offer two different styles of exam.
