Get some more dunce caps ready — cops in Nassau County are preparing to arrest three more students in the SAT cheating scandal, sources said.
The targeted students have already been questioned by detectives and have begun contacting lawyers in anticipation of being charged, The Post has learned.
The busts will bring the number of arrests in the case to 10, including six other students and Sam Eshaghoff, 19, a whiz-kid college student who was paid between $1,500 and $2,500 to ace the test for bonehead high-schoolers.
All those arrested in the case so far are current or former students at Great Neck North HS.
They all face misdemeanor charges.
It is not known if the new arrests will also be of students from Great Neck North.
It is also not clear when the new arrests will occur, but the sources said they are expected to go down sometime before next month’s round of SAT testing, which starts Nov. 5.
Word of the new impeding busts comes a day after The College Board and Educational Testing Service told the state Senate subcommittee on higher education that they would be hiring a firm run by former FBI Director Louis Freeh to review their security plans.
At the hearing, Sen. Kenneth LaValle was particularly concerned that Eshaghoff was allegedly able to pose as a girl to take a test.
“Education is critically important,” LaValle said. “It gives one a ticket to their success. This committee and our legislature and our society cannot tolerate where one group of students play by different rules.’’
LaValle said he is planning to introduce legislation next year to allow the College Board to notify schools of suspected cheating.
The cheating allegations came to light only after teachers in the school heard rumors about a SAT fraud scheme.
At the hearing, some educators also questioned the wisdom of allowing students to take the test at schools other than their own.
Eshaghoff allegedly took the exam at schools other than Great Neck North so as not to be recognized.
Also at the hearing, Bernard Kaplan, the principal of Great Neck North, blasted the SAT test, saying it was too easy to beat.
“Very simply, ETS has made it very easy to cheat, very difficult to get caught, and has failed to include schools in the process,” he said.