<p>Like others have said, people use a fake ID to take the test for someone else.</p>
<p>At my highly competitive school, lots of people (knowing my SAT) have approached me about it, offering hundreds of dollars. Though I have of course refused, it’s clear that someone could easily make thousands of dollars doing so. There’s a massive market of wealthy kids whose parents have deep pockets and high expectations.</p>
<p>Another two-person method: person A (good test taker, no need for additional scores) and person B (cheater) go to test center. Person A fills in person B’s info on bubble sheet, and vice versa. Person A scores highly, but the test is scored for person B. Person B doodles on test, fills in bubbles as desired (valiant effort, random, all C’s, etc.).</p>
<p>Two people have to take the test, but no fake IDs are necessary.</p>
<p>In my SAT room the way the desks were numbered up the girl next to me had the same test (it was ordered the same and everything) as me. We were close enough so that I could have copied the test answers off of her. Of course I didn’t. If I had my score would have been much lower.</p>
<p>I think my psat prep company somehow cheated to get me the vocab list they did. They emailed me 2 days before the psat with a short list of words, all of which were on the psat. Even obscure ones like apocryphal. The list extended to the vocab on the reading sections as well, not just the fill in the blank.</p>
<p>Actually, even TI-Nspire CAS (which I used) is allowed…
CB has very lenient rules regarding calcs, so one can easily do sth…</p>
<p>they hire others to take it for them</p>
<p>@qazqay: interesting. The security of the PSAT is much harder to control, since the test booklets are sent to schools ahead of the administration date. It is quite possible that the test prep company managed to see a PSAT test booklet before the administration.</p>
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<p>bronovan … how do stories like this get circulated? I would think that the perpetrators wouldn’t be boasting about their misdeeds (but perhaps I’m wrong). Do you think it might be urban (or suburban) legend?</p>
<p>These are all the cheating incidents that I have heard of/witnessed in my area:</p>
<p>n00b tier - Discussing answers in the bathroom and going back to previous sections to change answers</p>
<p>mid tier - Looking at essay prompts when the proctor tells everyone to fill in the personal information bubbles</p>
<p>pr0 tier - Going on an iphone during a reading section to look up vocab (the dude who did this got away with it), texting during the test (the people got caught), texting in the bathroom during breaks (the person got caught)</p>
<p>Holy ****… i should get my sister who got 800m 800w 720cr to just take it for me rofl… wud it work?</p>
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<p>SMH. This is far from an “obscure” word. You will encounter this in college, if not in high school.</p>
<p>I don’t know how people could cheat. At my high school, the teachers were the test proctors and they still checked IDs.</p>
<p>Also, if you need to cheat on your SATs…I question your ability to do well in a college environment. Wouldn’t it be better to go to a school in your range and do extremely well there instead of cheating and having to flunk out of Yale? Just a thought.</p>
<p>There are better ways to get “good” scores than cheating. I would have NEVER considered cheating on the SAT. If there are this many kids cheating/considering cheating, I think the format of the SAT should be changed to reflect the way the GRE is given. You go to a testing center and you are watched on camera, you can’t bring anything with you, the go over your IDs multiple times – it’s pretty cheat-proof.</p>
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<p>And then person A cancels the test in their name (actually taken non-seriously by person B). Voila!</p>
<p>$600 isn’t even that much for something like this. One kid at my school was desperate and paid about $2,000 for the same service.</p>
<p>Cheating is all on the proctor though. I’ve seen kids blatantly cheat while the proctor read the paper, and I’ve seen kids whose tests have been taken away for filling in a few bubbles after time was called.</p>
<p>Two stories.</p>
<p>1. I have an Arab friend who has a extremely look alike brother. Both have long hair and beards. My friend is stupid but his brother who’s in college is extremely smart. He just registered to take the ACT (not SAT, but whatever) at a neighbor town. Everything went well and he ended up getting a 29.</p>
<p>2. At my school, all the booklets arrive 2-3 days before the test and stay in counselors’ office. If you’re lucky, you can try to steal one of those. It’s that simple. I wanted to try once, but there were cameras all over the office. :(</p>
<p>Say someone had friends living in Guam, a small Pacific island. Then say that someone lived on the East Coast. The time difference is about half a day. Person in Guam takes the SAT. Hours later, the person on the East Coast will take the SAT. Once the person in Guam finishes the SAT, he could discuss it with his friend on the East Coast before that person takes his SAT. This could also work with something like AP tests, or the ACT.</p>
<p>it probably is not that difficult. i once had a proctor (who was ironically the counselor of my school) who did not even walk around, she would just start the timer, go to the back of the room and sit there using the computer, typing emails lol, for 20 minutes, then walk back to the front of the room when there were 5 mins left in the section. someone could have easily worked on other sections and she would not have noticed</p>
<p>the worst degree of cheating you will usually see on the SAT is kids talking about a question during a break, then changing their answer during the beginning of the next section.
as for a completely different person taking the test for you, you would really just be screwing yourself over. SAT scores somewhat correlate with your college performance, so if you get into a school that you aren’t qualified for, you would probably do really poorly. not to mention your scores could possibly get flagged if there was a HUGE jump, and then after investigating they would probably find out that it was not really you at the test center that day. im sure it has worked in many cases though</p>
<p>Not rly…say you want to go into literature, but you are rly screwed for Math SAT. You’d need that math score, but you wont need to do math much again after HS.</p>
<p>Say you want to go to MIT and got a 1850 on the sat. 800 math, 500 writing, 550 reading. You could still do quite well at MIT.</p>
<p>"Originally by fignewton: Another two-person method: person A (good test taker, no need for additional scores) and person B (cheater) go to test center. Person A fills in person B’s info on bubble sheet, and vice versa. Person A scores highly, but the test is scored for person B. Person B doodles on test, fills in bubbles as desired (valiant effort, random, all C’s, etc.).</p>
<p>Two people have to take the test, but no fake IDs are necessary. "</p>
<p>Person B should still try. I like Person B cancels his scores after, potentially if neede making an excuse.</p>
<p>what you can also do is Person B gives person A a copy of their admission ticket so that person A can have the registration number. Person B doesn’t fill in person A’s info, rather made up info. Therefore person B will get an excellent score, person B’s score will be illegitimate and not counted (therefore no possible investigation about significant score drop), and person A will be seen as not showing up to the test by CB</p>
<p>The tests are reused. Noticing the pattern could help quite a bit ;)</p>