Almost 1 million students took the first sitting of the annual college entrance exams May 1 and 2, while the police said they have arrested 40 people for offering to sell the questions in advance and another 79 involved in selling tools to enable cheating.
Every year, there is a problem with people on the inside of the exam system selling questions.
The problem has never been solved. Of the 957,798 students to sit the exams this year, 63 percent are women and just 37 percent men.
The test is known in Iran as the konkur after the French college entrance exam called the concours.
