<p>If they were gaining access to offices and able to open and examine AP test booklets and SAT test booklets, there may have been even more kids who “gained” from their actions. It is conceivable that kids “sold” info to even more kids. There may be a few who were not directly involved with the break-ins and thefts, but who had inside info for tests. </p>
<p>I do feel badly for those of you who have totally innocent and high scoring kids at this school. Very unfair for you.</p>
<p>How the hell do they cheat on the SAT and AP test? That’s not any type of hacking, I would presume they just didn’t have proctors paying attention and the most they could do is I guess bring in general notes. I highly doubt six students broke into some office, found all the AP/SAT books, copied the different versions of the SAT and AP tests, and got away with it, I don’t see it being possible.</p>
<p>The news reports specifially detail that they did break into to administrative offices and opened AP test books.</p>
<p>The newspaper reported this:
… however, I am going to be surprised if this proves to be the case. How does a kid hide tampering with an AP exam test packet? Isn’t a professional responsible for counting the number of test packets and noticing if one or more has been opened? What seems more likely to me is that cheating occurred during the test. The students who took an AP exam with two of the suspects last May were questioned individually by investigators about the suspects’ behavior during the exam.</p>
<p>As to how they cheated on the SAT - apparently a calculator in which one student had input test answers was passed back and forth during the test. My daughter doesn’t see how this could have been done, because the exam room set-up would seem to make cheating exceptionally difficult and there are numerous proctors. But this does seem to be the method that was used.</p>
<p>Earlier this week, parents were notified by the high school principal that the only records that had been changed were those of the cheating students; no other students’ information had been tampered with. The press coverage seems to call this into question, but the school is usually very quick to notify parents of (potentially actionable) problems, and there have been no updates since the arrests.</p>
<p>another eye-opener
Well, though school administrators have sworn up and down for the past 20 years that we don’t rank, apparently we do. According to police records released this afternoon, one of the cheaters manipulated another’s class rank to number 11 (“Him? No one would believe it,” my d observed). I’m disgusted by the entire situation, but it surprises me to know that rankings are kept - doesn’t anyone tell it like it is anymore? </p>
<p>Something recent from a local TV station on how our kids’ standardized test scores could be affected:</p>
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<p>want to know how kdis cheat on the SAT, go into the SAT forum you’d be surprised how kids do it, and don’t think twice about it. Sadly some boast about how easy it is. </p>
<p>The whole thing stinks on all levels, there is gaming going on in all schools in one form or another.</p>
<p>Being able to take the SAT or ACT at YOUR school (even w/o cheaters) is another advantage urban and suburban students have over kids in rural schools. D and her classmates must travel to the nearest CC (35 miles) or to a h/s in the closest urban area (100 miles).</p>
<p>Well it’s not like they can HAVE the SAT answers unless they did open the booklets, but then how the hell would no one at the school notice? Something doesn’t sound right, and that “allegedly” before the sentence makes it seem like they don’t have the most stable of sources.</p>
<p>Boysx3 - asked about status of the Hanover, NH cheating case. Plea deals were recently rejected with trials due to start in about a week. These boys full names have repeatedly been published in the local paper and a People Magazine was in town interviewing for a possible story. Below is a more measured article from the Boston Globe. </p>
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<p>Link to Boston Globe
[Students</a> continue trying for plea deal in cheating case - Boston.com](<a href=“http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2007/11/07/students_continue_trying_for_plea_deal_in_cheating_case/]Students”>http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2007/11/07/students_continue_trying_for_plea_deal_in_cheating_case/)</p>
<p>I also live in the same upstate school district. Somehow one kid gave his calculator to another kid and the 2nd kid used those answers. The local paper (syracuse.com) posted some of the depositions. Apparently the kid who received the calculator claims he did poorly on the SAT due to those answers!</p>
<p>More on this story: [Syracuse.com[/url</a>]
and [url=<a href=“http://blog.syracuse.com/indepth/2007/11/fm_investigation.html]F-M”>http://blog.syracuse.com/indepth/2007/11/fm_investigation.html]F-M</a> investigation - In Depth with The Post-Standard](<a href=“http://www.syracuse.com/articles/news/index.ssf?/base/news-12/1194602301103610.xml&coll=1&thispage=1]Syracuse.com[/url”>http://www.syracuse.com/articles/news/index.ssf?/base/news-12/1194602301103610.xml&coll=1&thispage=1)</p>
<p>How ironic - trying to improve how you look on paper and ending up charged with a felony. Tragic. Reading their statements is chilling - this was premeditated and went on for weeks or months.</p>