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The school in Crema was among 34 private secondary schools caught up in an investigation into a vast trade in bogus exam passes. The going rate for a diploma di maturita, Italy's school-leaving certificate, was said by prosecutors to range from €2,000 to €8,000. Since a diploma is needed to apply to university or get a white-collar public-sector job, that seemed a bargain — the more so since the organization behind it, called Diploma No Problem, offered such good service. Answers were supplied for written and oral exams; attendance records were fixed. Conversations taped by the police suggest that the company even booked flights and hotels for "clients" so they could sit exams in places where the outcome was assured.

One school south of Rome seems to have existed almost solely to produce study-free passes. It had 40 normal pupils, but around 1,000 external ones/

Study-free passes - это без фактического присутствия на экзамене, или получения аттестата в этой школе, фактически в ней даже не учась? Подскажите, пожалуйста?