How do people cheat on SATs?

Test Preparation
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<p>A few things. </p>

<p>First: I don’t understand what you’re saying. Perhaps I can grope for some forsaken meaning in your banter, but understand? Certainly not. This certainly isn’t a grammar class but it sure as hell wouldn’t hurt for you to develop a cogent paragraph marked by its clarity and not by its meaningless rhetoric. </p>

<p>Second: By agreeing that one should help his friend cheat–when he has an excellent score–you are implicitly agreeing to the notion that your friends who have low scores deserve more than that. </p>

<p>Third: It certainly isn’t any of my business. Rather, I’m trying to point out that just because your friends aren’t the best scorers doesn’t mean that they should resort to deceptive activity to pursue a higher score. </p>

<p>Fourth: I understand my opinion doesn’t matter. Rather, I am contributing my thoughts on this to the ever growing edifice of thought that this threat represents. It just so happened that your inflammatory post was a good place to start. </p>

<p>Fifth and finally: I’m certainly not the most honorable person on this earth. I’ve cheated before. I’ve helped cheat before. That doesn’t mean I’m not cognizant of the negative effects of such actions.</p>

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<p>^ Well said
People may cheat, but it’s never justified. The SATs are supposed to, at least somewhat loosely, provide an indicator for academic achievement on a standardized level across the entire nation. That role is completely tossed aside if cheating becomes a regular habit on it.
And acceptance to good universities never solely depends on GPA and SAT scores alone, because both can be very misleading. One can take easy classes, or have a super inflated grading system in school, and one can simply take SAT prep classes to inflate their score something like 300 points.
No one here is suggesting that we’re all the most “honorable people on earth”, we’re all just saying that we haven’t cheated on the SAT</p>

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<p>I don’t know what’s funnier, the fact that this thread is featured on the the front of CC Forums about how to cheat on your SATs or ElenaCh saying she knows kids with a 4.0 GPA that have gotten under 1200 on their SAT. Maybe you’re confused, but tractor safety and plowing aren’t courses that get factored in someone’s GPA. Where do they attend school to get a 4.0 GPA and 1100 SAT? A barn?</p>

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<p>No need to reply to an obviously bantering post with more insolence.</p>

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<p>Im lost but I are get cheating on SAT to get into harverd?</p>

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<p>Don’t cheat on the test. You know it’s wrong and immoral. Additionally, things can go wrong and you would end up in a lot more trouble. </p>

<p>“You’re right. You should feel bad. How would you feel if you were in his place? If you went up to someone and asked them for this favor and they threw it back in your face… how would you feel? We all lie, cheat and deceive. People need to stop walking around pretending they’re the most honest thing ever. We have all at least lied, cheated , backstabbed etc… at least once in our lives and yet we somehow managed not to feel so guilty and eventually forgot about it. One day you’ll get a taste of your own medicine. Just wait until YOU’RE the one who needs help. As for the jerk who replied to you (nobody 777) he doesn’t know for a FACT that the guy who asked you for this won’t succeed in getting good grades at his dream university. Neither you nor him knows that. Of course I don’t either but some people do well in school and not on standardized tests. Not everyone can get a good score. You’re a horrible person. I don’t support cheating but on standardized test, if the student wants to cheat then yes he can. All those “tests” are discriminating. I know 4 students who have a 3.9 and a 4.0 gpa in university who scored so low on the SAT’s (got 1,100 and 1,200). One of these girls ended up re doing the SAT’s for 3 years. Put yourself in his place. How would you feel if you didn’t end up going to your dream university?”</p>

<p>Let’s break this down.

  1. The person should not feel bad about not taking the test for his friend. He did the right thing. I am sure he would feel just as bad if he/she did cheat. If the friend really wants to go to his dream school, then he should be willing to put in the time and effort to study and do better. You don’t know enough about the individual to determine if he or she is a bad person. What happens if they cheat and get caught? Then his/her friend would be in a much worse position.<br>
  2. Saying that everyone has lied, cheated, etc. does not justify his or her actions. If you get caught lying in court, does the judge say “It’s ok, everyone does it”? You might say, well lying in court is a big deal and the test is not. Your test results could take away scholarships and admissions to students who are more deserving. Think about how they would feel after not being admitted to their dream schools.
  3. I agree with your claim that some people can do well in school and not well on a test. You can be a hard working student who just has a very bad test day.</p>
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<p>Ways to cheat:</p>

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<li>Formula App in Calculator, it generally isn’t too helpful though, SAT doesn’t really require mathematical formulas</li>
<li>You get the SAT Packet around 5-15 minutes before test starts. You can, and I’ve seen others just snap open their SAT packet for 2-3 seconds and read the prompt, and then brainstorm while the proctors are instructing. </li>
<li>Depending on your proctors, you may be able to go back to previous sections, for me, I was able to, but I did not. I was in the corner opposite from where the proctors were.</li>
<li>During breaks, you can bring a smart phone to the bathroom and get definitions and then replace them later on the SAT, my iTouch has a dictionary app, but I didn’t bring it on the day of the exam. You can also collaborate with friends as the room numbers are sorted out by last name, especially if you are asian, as there is a tendency that there will be more asians at the bottom alphabet, (Wang, Yang, Yu, Xu, etc.)</li>
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<p>I would say to be careful though when you cheat, it is not only the proctor who is out for you, but also students who want the test as fair as possible. </p>

<p>I’d say the observations I have that differ from others is that of #2, I’ve seen a couple people do this. It is really ingenious actually, allows you to write more and plan out a better essay.</p>

<p>Personally what I did, which probably does not constitute cheating, is that I read a vocab booklet right up to before the test started, it saved me on 2-4 words. From the moment I got to the test center, to right before the test, I was just flipping through the words. </p>

<p>It is important to note that the amount of security depends on the size of the classroom and the proctor’s awareness and # of proctors. I remember my first SAT which had pretty high security as it was a fairly small size and the proctor was actually doing her job and walking around.</p>

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<p>The most common way to cheat is to take the test for another guy or too sit behind someone you know and look at his answer sheet or to speak to a friend before and ask him to remember the answers so that he can transfer it to you during the breaks in the bathroom</p>

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<p>…A kid I know was posting on facebook during the test. He didn’t get caught. He was literally updating his status like “omg this is so boring” “ugh when does this end” “eff the sat”</p>

<p>edit: @Slamsmackdown
yep. I also heard of a cheating method where someone pays another to take the test for them. But the thing is you don’t need fake ID.</p>

<p>You go to a school far away where you’re allowed to sit wherever you want. The test taker sits behind the guy paying and they both take the test. However, the test taker instead writes the name of the guy paying on his test/answer sheet and vice-versa. When the test taker goes home he just cancels his score immediately. Quite easy tbh
The only thing you have to do is memorize the guy’s personal information such as his birthday. 2 guys from my school did this.</p>

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<p>So, what actually happens if someone gets caught? Will all their SAT scores get cancelled and they’re banned from SAT’s or will they just get scowled at?
If the consequences arent harsh engouh, thats probably why people dare to cheat</p>

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<p>I thought the consequences were supposed to be severe. One of my teachers said that if you cheat on the SAT, then you cannot take it again. Yet, I know people who were caught on the ACT and they still got into good schools.</p>

<p>Bottom line: don’t cheat. You might get off easy, but chances are it will come back to get you.</p>

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<p>for the ‘look up the answers in the bathroom or during the test’ methods, why don’t the proctors (or collegeboard) say ‘no cell phones allowed in the classroom’ (check them in , eg)?</p>

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<p>"So, what actually happens if someone gets caught? Will all their SAT scores get cancelled and they’re banned from SAT’s or will they just get scowled at?
If the consequences arent harsh engouh, thats probably why people dare to cheat "</p>

<p>In my high school, there was a girl who came to take her SAT with a hangover, cheated off another girl from my school and still ended up doing well. Even worse, the whole school knew about it because the girl was bragging about how she cheated. She never got in trouble because the other girl didn’t want to go through the trouble of cancelling her scores.</p>

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<p>I’m a firm believer of not cheating but i always thought that it’s easier to survive college than getting in college, with all the competition and of course and the people cheating beating out the people that are totally honest. A 4.0 and a 1100 on the SAT is ridiculous and nearly impossible…your friend is scoring less than 300 on each section.</p>

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<p>RTUDTU, 1100/3 says friend is averaging 367 (rounded) on each section and could score less than 300 on two sections only if above 500 on the third. I don’t know where you are or what you do, but I’m wondering what you scored on the math section.</p>

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<p>You not cheating for him is NOT what kept him out of his dream school. More than likely, a lifetime habit of looking for the easy way out is what did it.</p>

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<p>I think it’s really absurd to assume that just because someone was rejected to a school means they would have been a failure there. Top schools with low acceptance rates have to turn down thousands of highly qualified applicants every year, and even some of the students they do accept will end up flunking out. By no means do I think one should cheat to get into a college, but it’s unfair to say someone would have been miserable at a school simply because they weren’t accepted.</p>

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<p>Man what is with you guys. The only cheating at my school I know of is trying to sneak in notes and stuff. No paying people off, no adderal or whatever, dang. And my school is a pretty good public.</p>

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<p>Here’s a way of cheating…</p>

<p>Usually math is the easiest to improve so if you are not good at that you should practice till you get good enough to have extra time at the end.</p>

<p>For the verbal word- look up during the math section</p>

<p>now for the writing, take a look at someone’s essay that already earned a really good score and memorize it
since SAT prompts are very generic, just learn to make your answer fit the prompt’s question … easy way to get 10-12</p>

<p>I have also heard of people being good at one section (math or verbal) storing the answers on calculator and exchanging in the bathroom</p>

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<p>Don’t cheat on it, you will regret it.</p>