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Japan's Waseda University has canceled the enrollment of five graduate students who were found to have cheated on a TOEIC English proficiency test.

The organizer of the Test of English for International Communication nullified the scores of 803 examinees who were involved in organized cheating by Chinese graduate students and others last year.

Waseda University says 52 of those invalidated scores were used in its undergraduate and graduate entrance exams.

In addition to the five graduate school students whose enrollment was canceled, the university revoked the admission of three prospective graduate students who had passed the entrance exam but had not yet enrolled.

Also, an undergraduate who had failed the graduate school entrance exam was indefinitely suspended.

The university said it would impose strict penalties whenever misconduct comes to light to maintain a fair and impartial entrance exam system.

Other Japanese schools such as the University of Tsukuba and the Tokyo University of Science have also canceled enrollment or admission offers for students who cheated on a TOEIC test.

The test organizer plans to tighten identity verification to prevent impersonation.