MANILA, Philippines
- Bad news for thousands of Filipino physical therapy (PT) graduates who want to work in the United States: American PT licensure authorities are blacklisting the Philippines and three other countries for at least one year over the leak of test questions.
The Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy (FSBPT), which administers the US National Physical Therapy Examination (NPTE), announced in its website (www.fsbpt.org<http://www.fsbpt.org>) yesterday that it is suspending NPTE tests for PT graduates from the Philippines, Egypt, India, and Pakistan until fall of next year.
“This necessary security measure is in response to compelling evidence gathered by the Federation reflecting systematic and methodical sharing of recalled questions by significant numbers of graduates of programs in the affected countries, as well as several exam preparation companies specifically targeted to these graduates,” FSBPT said.
“This evidence was obtained through extensive forensic analyses of exam performances, as well as a variety of legal actions brought by the Federation in the United States and abroad,” it said.
“Most notably, this includes the raid and seizure of evidence from the St. Louis Review Center in Manila, Philippines, and its alleged owners/operators, Gerard L. Martin, Roger P. Tong-an and Carlito Balita, which revealed the widespread sharing of hundreds of live test items.
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Now, they have to go to US nagyud to take the exam. Another shameful act that will haunt us napud.
mao guro high passing rate hehe