The State - News from Dec. 15, 1985

Five Cupertino teen-agers have been linked to a ring that hired out top high school students to take national college entrance tests for other students. Police are still searching for an 18-year-old man who allegedly was paid $100 for supplying “ringers” to take the exams for other youths, officials said. The man boasted of guaranteeing his test-takers would get at least 1,300 out of a possible 1,600 points on the annual Scholastic Aptitude Test, enough to gain admission to most top colleges, said Ed Bangle, principal of Homestead High School. Bangle and another school official, tipped by an informant, caught the paid exam-takers in the act. The students are scheduled to appear before a juvenile judge next month.