<p>hm come to think of it. the op does seem like a ■■■■■.</p>
<p>Why doesn’t SAT and ACT video tape all testing rooms? I realize this suggestion may not be realistic but if the OP had his/her testing room monitored by video, any cheating could be ruled out. </p>
<p>Some feel this is a violation of one’s privacy. IMO, if you have nothinig to hide, film it. We being watched by many “hidden cameras”. </p>
<p>Retake the test.</p>
<p>From ETS’s perspective, the probability of any test taker in a classroom of randomly selected students getting a 2400 is small, the likelihood of two 2400 scores in that same classroom is vanishingly small and that the two students who got the 2400s were sitting next to each other makes it almost impossible to believe nothing irregular was going on.</p>
<p>If I were you, I’d be dying to know if the other kid is getting the same communication from the SAT people.</p>
<p>I agree with Lemaitre, the circumstances do seem suspicious. OP does seem like a ■■■■■…</p>
<p>the circumstances seem *suspect</p>
<p>This doesn’t make sense. I do not believe a 200 point jump would be the only reason, or a reason at all. i see standardized test scores a lot-- this is not remotely that outstanding. It might be the reason they tell you, but its not the real reason.</p>
<p>Why can’t you duplicate a 2400 and how is it ‘extremely lucky’ if you scored it 7 out of 15 times on practice tests?</p>
<p>My sense is you are either making this up (as in a ■■■■■), or you aren’t being honest. I believed you at the outset, but the more you write, the more it rings false to me. </p>
<p>And either way, ‘your life is not over’.</p>
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I don’t understand why you had to ask this if you knew it was unrealistic.</p>
<p>This makes me really ****ed off at CollegeBoard.</p>
<p>In other similar situations I know about, the student has had to take a free restest and ETS cancels the scores in question.</p>
<p>“I know TONS of people with far greater score increase than 200 points.”</p>
<p>FWIW, I would think a 200 point increase becomes more rare, the higher the score is. So 1800 to 2000 may not be as rare as 2200 to 2400.I never know how to interpret “tons”, but the folks at CB who study the statistics, report score increases of 200 number in the less then tons.</p>
<p><a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/2009-Percentage-of-Students-with-Senior-Year-Score-Gain-or-Loss.pdf[/url]”>Higher Education Professionals | College Board;
<p><a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/2009-SAT-One-Year-Mean-Score-Changes.pdf[/url]”>Higher Education Professionals | College Board;
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<p>Yes. You have a mountain of evidence to prove you didn’t cheat. You turned in your cell phone, you didn’t leave the room during breaks. It sounds like you were preparing a defense in case you were accused of cheating. Like someone who knows they’ll need an alibi so they make sure their whereabouts were evident at a particular time.</p>
<p>None of your points proves anything anyway. The suspicion seems to be that you copied from your neighbor, so turning in your cell phone and not leaving during breaks doesn’t prove you didn’t copy from you neighbor.</p>
<p>I’m not saying you cheated but it sounds to me like you will have to retake the test.</p>
<p>If the OP retakes the test and receives a comparable score, will he/she be able to retain the original 2400?</p>
<p>It sounds a bit tragic to lose all that hard work.</p>
<p>Yes, the original score will stand once they are satisfied that there was not cheating involved.</p>
<p>there is lots of information we do not know in thie thread … for example, it is possible to get some questions wrong and still get a 2400 … so if the two test takers both got 2400s but had some different wrong answers that tends to help the case there was no cheating … however if they both got 2400s and had identical wrong answers the odds are astronimical that was coincidence.</p>
<p>^Not really - assuming the two test takers were of approximately the same caliber, they would likely be fooled by the same questions.</p>
<p>How would anyone even know who was sitting next to who? Are the tests collected in such an orderly fashion? Did the two test takers even know each other that well? </p>
<p>When my D took the SAT the person next to her opened her test booklet early for every section and the proctor didn’t even notice. D didn’t want to mention it (although it bothered her a lot) because she thought the whole room could have their scores thrown out.</p>
<p>^They are given alphabetically, so I suppose that ETS would have some vague idea.</p>
<p>@ those thinking OP is a ■■■■■, there’s two flags needed according to the PR article given earlier in the thread. A large point increase is the first flag and then correlation between answers or disparate handwriting is the second.</p>
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<p>Yes, the tests are collected in an orderly fashion. All scratch paper used also has to be turned in. As earlier posters have pointed out the increase in score isn’t that hard to believe. In and of itself this kind of increase in a test score would not have been enough to merit the accusations. The OP was also given the reasons that his work was similar to the person sitting next to him.</p>
<p>I was a teacher for a brief period. It is very easy to spot people who copy from each other because the mistakes are identical. The OP should have an opportunity to prove his test was legitimate but that will only happen with him or her retaking it. The original score will be allowed to stand.</p>