<p>wow. the situation on cheating is pretty rough.</p>
<p>wow those who cheat in SAT must be supermen. As an international student, I find it extremely difficult to cheat in US.
I think there should be 2 proctors/room and 1 proctor each floor. Moreover, the distance between 2 chairs should be far enough.
lol but then I think students can still cheat.</p>
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<p>I find that hard to believe. First of all, there’s already a clock in the room, so why in the world would they throw someone out of the room for having their watch beep. It’s not like they have any unfair advantage.</p>
<p>i say, if you can cheat on the SAT then you’re a god amongst men. they beat the system and they can now reap the rewards.</p>
<p>Yeah, I was shocked about the watch thing too, but it actually did happen. It was a girl from my school, and a bunch of my classmates were also there taking the test. But they do say in the rules that you’re not supposed to have any audible devices.</p>
<p>first of all, what kind of loser wears a digitial watch. she deserves to be thrown out of the room just for her bad fashion sense.</p>
<p>anyways, i dont think cheating should be reported to colleges. its WAY too hard to draw the line between genuine cheating and accidents? how many peeks does it take for it to be considered cheating? how many suspicious noises does it take for it to be called cheating? sure, doing those things would get someone kicked out of the room, but who really knows if he/she was really trying to cheat.</p>
<p>if all “cheaters” were reported to collegeboard, eventually youll find a guy who was accused of cheating that really didnt do anything and then problems will start. even though the dudes from the article blatantly cheated, it doesnt matter…</p>
<p>Have our ethics gotten so low? This is not a random peak at another’s test. This was a calculated, premeditated attempt to cheat. We don’t want to ruin their futures - we don’t want to hurt them over one transgression. Quite frankly, if they went to this length, knew where to get the ID’s, find the student, etc., then I just bet this wasn’t their first transgression. Report them. It’s about time cheaters learned a lesson. Poor kids, my eye! They are hurting others who are doing their best and doing it honestly. Those scores are reported on official documents and as such are fraud, pure and simple. If they used all the time studying that it took them to plan all this and execute this stunt, they would have done just fine. No, they took the easy way out. Life isn’t easy and it’s time these kids learned that.</p>
<p>I hope cheaters crash and burn in life. It is despicable and dishonest. And seriously I couldn’t live with myself knowing that I didn’t earn my own grade. gosh…i HATE when people on CC admit to cheating. It is weird. it seems like they are almost bragging in a sense and it really isn’t cool. Maybe i will study cognitive science in college and find out how people can do it and live with themselves…</p>
<p>I had a friend that did NOT cheat but b/c he and some other kid 2 rows over had similar answers on some/part of a section they assumed he cheated. ALSO, it did not help that he jumped from around a 1600 to very close to 2000(or some where close to this). His SAT was cancelled and he got some notice informing him of the suspicsions…</p>
<p>He said he didn’t cheat, how could he esp when he was a WHOLE row seperated him and the other kid. </p>
<p>Suspiscion is one thing but cheating is another.</p>
<p>The digital watch thing is nothing. My friend was taking the SAT, and a guy in his session got kicked out for writing his name before the proctor instructed everyone to do so.</p>
<p>this has gotten me a little scared. i signed up for a June 2007 subject test but learned two weeks before the test that I had been accepted for an academic program in another state that would start on the first day of june, so i wouldn’t be able to take the test.</p>
<p>i never notified college board. i just didn’t show up to take the test, and now my profile says “scores not yet received”. are colleges gonna be suspicious of this when i send in my SAT report?</p>
<p>nah, i doubt they’ll have a reason to be suspicious. Colleges accept your scores and grades and applications with the good faith that you haven’t cheated.
And for the most part I’m glad of this. It sucks that people cheat, yeah, but there’s really not much you can do, nor does it seem fair to blacklist someone for life for doing such a thing. Yes, it’s not fair. But he who cheats just fails later on. I don’t think it’s worth being overly suspicious when most people are being good. </p>
<p>I think that some proctors can be really annoying and crazy sometimes. Our AP proctors talked. That was so distracting and not cool, especially when you have 10 minutes left and really need to focus.</p>
<p>[AP</a> State News - School test scores canceled after cheating probe - sacbee.com](<a href=“http://www.sacbee.com/114/story/1066208.html]AP”>http://www.sacbee.com/114/story/1066208.html)</p>
<p>However, the above is a story about 300 High School kids whose AP scores were canceled because of the cheating of only a few.</p>
<p>^ That is why you do not ****ing tattle to the school that there were people cheating. Because if they find more than 2-3 people cheating, all the scores get canceled.</p>
<p>At least they get to retake them, which would mean that those who didn’t do so well could study them again and those who failed anyway can refuse to take it again.</p>
<p>And since when did AP exams cost $40?</p>
<p>“It would be nice if there were less cheating on the ACT/SAT, but I don’t think students should be overly penalized for this mistake.”</p>
<p>Cheating isn’t a mistake in the sense that it happens accidentally. Cheating is a conscious decision to try to gain an unfair advantage. I’m appalled at how many posters don’t appear to agree/understand that cheating is actually wrong under any circumstances. I think that the cheaters high schools should be informed, the students banned from taking the test after one offense and colleges notified. There are some colleges, Washington and Lee comes to mind, that almost certainly would not want to admit a student who cheated on a test.</p>
<p>cheating=failure in college
whats the point of getting into gooode college without your knowledge?
and its hard to cheat in college</p>
<p>It’s capitalism. If you have the money to pay for high scores yu should be able to.</p>
<p>Alternatively, colleges can simply rescind all acceptances from LA for the year.</p>
<p>lol those who cheat should get a job in police. They could deal with the pressure while being attacked by robbers</p>
<p>If it can be confirmed then obviously colleges should be notified. Most students get suspensions for major cheating like that which are on their transcripts or counselor letters, why should this be any different?</p>
<p>Last year during the ACT some bum next to me was blatantly cheating off of my test, and the only proctor was an old lady reading a book. I had already taken it and compared to the last time I was doing terrible on the test, so I just started recording wrong answers, and then I brought it up and told the lady to void it. Wasted $40, but I’m almost certain I wouldn’t have gotten a better score anyway, and I gave that kid an awful score I think.</p>