Apparent copies of recent digital SAT questions posted online, tutors and experts say

The New York Times reported on Jan. 28, 2026, that apparent copies of recently administered digital SAT questions have been posted online on social media and on websites that appear to be based in China, prompting concerns from tutors and testing experts. A tutor who works with students at a European boarding school alerted the College Board after reviewing leaked material and concluded that some posted questions were authentic, the report says; the tutor asked not to be identified.

One site, bluebook.plus, which markets practice tests and appears from domain searches to be based in China, drew about 875,000 visitors in November, according to Similarweb, the article says. The College Board told The Times that cheating on the SAT is rare, affecting only a fraction of 1 percent of test scores, and that overall scores have remained steady since the shift to digital testing.

The organization also acknowledged awareness of “screenshots that purport to have been taken while testing is in progress” and of “hardware and software-based efforts to evade our security system,” the article says. Testing experts and online forums discussed several methods that could be used to bypass Bluebook security, including video-capture plug-ins that masquerade as mice, sandboxed virtual environments, and remote takeover of a student’s computer, though some experts cautioned many advertisements are scams.

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