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NY EMT tests voided due to ‘blatant cheating’

A cellphone was used to take pictures to record the exam booklet and was sent to other test-takers

NY Post

NEW YORK — The state has pulled the plug on the recent EMT-certification test scores of 25 people because of blatant cheating, The Post has learned.

Rabbi Ezra Max, who runs a Brooklyn volunteer ambulance corps and a “Kosher Coaching” counseling business, was accused of snapping photos of the exam with his cellphone.

He was photographed by a fellow test-taker who sent incriminating photos to the state Health Department, triggering an investigation. “It is highly possible that a cellphone was utilized to take pictures or otherwise record the examination booklet,” Andrew Johnson, deputy director of the state’s Bureau of Emergency Services, said in a letter to city EMS officials.

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