<p>They always say stuff about not cheating before you begin the SAT but I wonder how people can even cheat when most people are working on different sections or completely different tests altogether?!</p>
<p>Well I think the most common form of cheating on the SAT is going ahead or back to other sections…at least that’s what I saw some of the people at my testing center doing lol</p>
<p>US students all receive the same test, with the exception of the ordering of the sections, one experimental section, and two different essay prompts (one for eastern US, one for western).</p>
<p>Going back to other sections is Little League stuff. My school’s valedictorian from last year got 600 dollars for taking the SAT for this other kid who made him a fake school ID. Val is at Harvard, this other kid is now at Amherst.</p>
<p>^^^ lol</p>
<p>Anyways, I suppose having certain programs on your calculator that you shouldn’t have could be cheating. Or you could put a much more advanced and banned calculator into a shell of a calculator that is allowed.</p>
<p>Bronovan: One of the kids in the class above mine actually offered my a 100 bucks to the ACT for him, i refused of course. But 600 bucks is insane…</p>
<p>Sit next to a friend. Hope your sections match somewhat. Shoot the other answer sheet an occaisionaly glance.</p>
<p>I’m not telling you this to cheat but you’re curious so yeah… the one sitting next to you would be working on different sections the entire time but actually there would be someone in the test room who has the same order of sections as you do so if you both can manage to remember answers you can tell each other in break times. (that of course if the proctor doesn’t see you)
FYI I know this because I saw people in my test room doing it. :)</p>
<p>It’s possible to download SAT Vocabulary programs to the TI-84.</p>
<p>really?! do they allow TI-84?</p>
<p>Yes ^</p>
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<p>^Yeah, but you’re not allowed to use your calculator during the Reading sections</p>
<p>Our proctor told us to remove our calculators from our desk during the reading and writing sections, but a forgot to remove it from my desk during a reading section and he didn’t even say anything.</p>
<p>i think you could get away with using a vocab program.</p>
<p>^you probably weren’t typing stuff into your calculator. You would have gotten in trouble if you were.</p>
<p>@bronovan, that’s whassup.</p>
<p>But yeah.
I think the most common form of cheating would be going back to other sections or whatever.
Technically, even filling out bubbles after time as been called would be considered “cheating”.</p>
<p>People also talk about the answers to the sections they’ve just done in the bathroom during the breaks.</p>
<p>A kid in my school used a TI-Inspire…he didn’t use it to cheat, but he wanted to see if the proctors paid attention. They didn’t.</p>
<p>probably the easiest would be to not put your phone up front and keep it in your pocket. then when you go to the bathroom you could go on the internet to look up words for sentence completions…not that i do this of course haha i dont have a smart phone</p>
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I believe a TI-nspire is allowed.</p>
<p>A few years ago a prep service had a scam going (not on SAT but one of the graduate tests (GRE perhaps), where they somehow got ahold of a test when it was given in an earlier time zone, sent photos of the test & gave their students coded pencils with answers on them just before entering the test. When the NCAA first introduced “Prop 48” & student athletes had to get a minimum score to be eligible their first year there was two types of cheating: 1) Have some one on the “inside” changing answers after the tests were collected 2) Have somone take the test for the student at a school not near their home school (people wouldn’t recognize them).</p>