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The ÖSYM commenced an investigation when thousands of students objected their examination results. Some 2,000 students who took the Transition to Higher Education Examination (YGS) had petitioned the ÖSYM for a review of their official final scores, marking a stark increase from the average 200 applications received annually for a review of examination results.
The ÖSYM has already had to face cheating allegations on the YGS test. It is now also contending with complaints by candidates that questions they left blank were calculated as incorrectly answered, and others who say they have been given scores on parts of the examination that they hadn't even attempted to answer.
Mehmet Can Aksoy, a graduate from Ceyhan İmamoğlu Anadolu High School, told news agencies that he thought someone was playing a joke on him when he received the call on Sunday night. “Someone from the ÖSYM called me at 10 p.m. on my cell phone. I thought that it was all a big joke and didn't know what hit me. [I was told that] my YGS-2 score had increased from 130 to 240,” the 19-year-old said.
