"If it's an exam paper, they're asking you a question that there's no answer to, " said Lee Westwood at the time.

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In this scam, a student in New York faxed the contents of an exam paper to another student in Hawaii who was taking the same exam on the same day - but at a later hour.

BBC: Cheats stay one step ahead

But when it became known that questions in the Lithuanian-language paper for this year's school-leaving exam were on sale in advance, there was an outcry.

ECONOMIST: Lithuania's government