Student openly admits to cheating on SAT

Hat
Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:04:56 +0000

First, my understanding is similar to hidingout. That is, if the CB people suspect (unreported) cheating (typically based on a significant improvement in a score) they delay the reporting of the score to the suspected student or students. They then look at the answers of students next to the suspected student and compare to look for a pattern of identical wrong answers. Where they take it from there, I don’t know, although I believe that they simply give the student an option to take another test for free. Given that this student actually received her “scores” at the same time as the rest, I would assume that CB did not have a problem.

Personally, I never associated cheating with wealth or privilege or that cheating was somehow “gaming the system”. And it continues to amaze me how many people would not bother to report cheating which they witnessed.