@suzyQ7 there are plenty of stories I’ve seen on this site that I myself would say are fake. Many just to get attention.
I completely agree with @lookingforward. You’re trying to hide from what you’ve done and victimize yourself. You’re not a victim here. What you did was intentional and very, very wrong.
I, too, had to take the same AP Lit exam on the same day you did. I am also going to a well known college. I had to take the same difficult exam without aid of my smart phone. If I don’t get a 5, then so be it. I didn’t earn it in that case. But your actions are a slap in the face to anybody and everybody who put in the hard work to take that exam. I struggled with the Q3 and know very well I could get a 5 had I cheated on that question, but I am a person of integrity and know what a gross disservice that is to myself and every other student taking the same exam.
You say you’re ashamed of yourself, and you should be. You took the easy way out and deserve the full repercussions of your actions. If you have a shred of decency, you’ll cancel your scores. It’s one class. Take the first step towards righting your wrong and do the right thing.
This post has all the hallmarks of a hit-and-run posting. But assuming it’s true, people who are telling the OP to cancel the score are missing one key element - the school sees the incident report and may (should) take separate disciplinary action against the student, including informing the college of the incident.
I agree, @skieurope.
However, the OP says the school may or may not have seen it.
If that is the case, they should cancel their score regardless out of respect for others who took the exam the hard way.
They definitely should face repercussions either way, but if they don’t, they shouldn’t get to benefit off of their cheating.
The OP is making this determination after asking fellow HS students what would happen: @sunshine2019
So these HS students, who have now proven how much they don’t know, are all wrong. While the proctor can dismiss the student from the test, it is left to their judgement. The proctor would have been required to write an incident report, and the OP would not necessarily know that she had done that.
Additionally, if the OP did not cancel the score, s/he should assume that the AP readers, most of whom are AP teachers, did not just fall off the turnip truck, and probably have already googled to find how the internet answered similar questions to the FRQ, and will factor that into their scoring.
Hi everyone, thank you for your input. I canceled my scores. I knew the minute I walked out of that exam room I was going to cancel them.
Now, a few of you did manage to see through and claim that my post is fake. Some parts of the story are, and I’m going to be 100% honest and say that I DID exaggerate the offense I did during the exam and I t is your choice on whether or not you believe me. I needed to understand the “WHAT IFS” to the full extent. I’m not ignorant enough to actually search up something regarding an FRQ theme and then plagiarize what I saw, but I am idiotic enough to memorize definitions off of Google and then write exactly what I had memorized on my exam. That’s not important. What matters is that I KNOW/KNEW having my phone on me during an important exam was wrong and I’m extremely ashamed and disappointed in myself. I know many people won’t believe me, but the sole reason why I had it with me is because something very personal and serious was happening to one of my immediate family members and I wanted to know their status as SOON as the exam was over. And that’s what I did. I checked my phone while waiting and
my fear is that the proctor saw me and flagged me.
I’m truly sorry to the other students who have seen this and are, most likely, very angry. I would have been too if I saw something like this, as I am assuming that I am (or was) a similar student. I did cancel my scores and have accepted what ever might happen to me if that gives you some closure, even though it probably won’t. I sincerely apologize for my actions.
Thank you all for your feedback. It is true that I was at first looking for some “comfort”, but I always knew that this would end with me canceling my scores. Even though my offense was not as severe as I had made it out to be, I would not have been able to live with myself knowing that I had committed a serious offense in a testing environment. Like other students, if I was seeing this from a different perspective, I would’ve wanted them to cancel their scores immediately. After all, it is unfair since I did, in fact, possess a device that could connect to the internet. Once again, thank you for all your responses and I’m truly sorry and ashamed for my actions.
edit: grammar
MODERATOR’S NOTE: Closing thread after reading OP’s last post.