Argentina’s health ministry has announced that aspiring medical residents with high scores on their entrance exams will have to retake the test following allegations of cheating, including claims the questions were on sale in advance.

Presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni said that most of the medics in question had studied at foreign universities, and that the claims had arisen after the government “corrected an injustice” by giving medics from Argentine universities five extra points in the exam.

On Thursday, Adorni said in his morning press conference that the exam results were “suspicious” and “incongruous with the academic history of their universities and grade point averages.”

In total, 268 medics scored 86 points or more in the exam. The maximum was 100. Of those, Adorni said........

© Buenos Aires Herald