<p>the one with Testtaker A and B is genius and after the test test taker A can cancel the test score afterwards. </p>
<p>■■■■ i want to try this but i have no one to do it with >.>
sighhh</p>
<p>My friend told me that his test proctor fell asleep during the test and kids just started cheating left and right.</p>
<p>^ Lol</p>
<p>In my opinion, it would stupid for anyone in the 95+ percentile to take a risk on cheating. I’m pretty sheltered, so I guess I haven’t seen much cheating in my neck of the woods.</p>
<p>Some idiot turned the clock off in the room during break, though. I guess he thought the proctor wouldn’t notice…?</p>
<p>For the ACT, I’ve been offered $100-$150 to take ACTs for kids in my school. When I took it for the final time (i’ve never done it for anyone else), They didnt look at your ID, so for all you know, the dark indian kid that I am could show up in the place of John Smith or whoever. </p>
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<p>While we were filling out the information portion of the test, we could have easily switched forms (a friend of mine sat next to me).</p>
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. He should’ve done it in this situation.
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When they collect the answer sheets, they have to be in alphabetical order. Proctors might easily figure out that they cheated.</p>
<p>In Illinois all high schoolers are forced to take the ACT at the same time during one day of the year, so all the proctors are going to be your own school’s teachers. All teachers are not made equal, so if you get a lazy/oblivious proctor, people can cheat easily by sharing answers with neighborhoods… I saw it myself when I was in high school.</p>
<p>Also you can get people to take the test for you. They’re very lazy about checking IDs.</p>
<p>Here’s a truly useful thread on CC.</p>
<p>^ I agree
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<p>The day my son took the SAT, I was outside the building. A family of four from Florida was outside, their daughter was denied entry “forgot her ID”. The father was bragging he knew someone at the top and was phoning this person to get her into the test. Sure enough, she was allowed in to take the test.</p>
<p>Now, who is to say this was their actual daughter and not a ringer? Who flies to Illinois to take the SAT so they can get into University of Florida or Miami?</p>
<p>Easy solution to deter hired guns: biometric security (palm-scans, fingerprints). If your scan/prints taken on test day(s) don’t match those taken upon graduation from college, you’re expelled and publicly shamed. (Okay, maybe not the last part.)</p>
<p>LSAC, AAMC, and USMLE have this down pretty well - CB and ACT are way too loosy-goosy about it and it needs to change.</p>
<p>As to other forms of cheating, there should be cameras on each student for the entire test and break areas/restrooms should be closely monitored. It sounds very 1984-esque, but it ensures a fair and equal testing experience for everybody.</p>
<p>They should just enforce random external controls of test centers. Students not properly ID-ed? Fine and suspend the test center, invalidate students’ results.</p>
<p>In my school, the question packets are delivered to my school and held in the main office 2 days prior to the SAT. Since the main office is usually full of people and guarded by cameras, stealing those packets would be all but impossible. One day, three kids staged a fight in the hallway near the main office. As people poured out of the main office to see what was happening, one kid, wearing a hood, quietly entered the main office. Another kid, in the back of a computer lab, hacked into the school’s security system and managed to disable the main office’s cameras for a minute. The hooded student in the main office snuck through and grabbed a question packet. However, he would be unable to exit the room without arousing suspicion and most likely being searched. So, he crawled into a ventilation duct in the office and navigated all the way to the ventilation control room. Meanwhile, the hacker in the computer lab activated the school’s fire alarm, causing the entire school to be evacuated. Once the school was empty, the kid with the packet walked into his classroom and put the question packet inside his backpack before joining everyone else outside. In the end, the 5 kids made over ten thousand dollars selling the answers in the packet to kids from all over the county. True story :D</p>
<p>You need a hacker to pull the fire alarm? </p>
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<p>Having someone take the test for you</p>
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I’m sure it is…</p>
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<p>What makes you think that every high school can afford elaborate surveillance camera systems and fingerprint readers? That stuff is expensive, be realistic.</p>
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<p>Have you ever considered writing fiction for a living?</p>
<p>^Loooooooool</p>
<p>Sounds like a good beginning idea for a heist movie.</p>