<p>So I'm taking the Subject Test tomorrow and as I get my ID, pencils, snacks, etc. ready for tomorrow morning, I can't keep on thinking about that Gossip Girl episode where Chuck pays students to take the SAT I for him and Serena. </p>
<p>Honestly it would be SO easy for someone to get a fake ID and take the test for someone else? At the HS I take my SATs there are so many students they have to check that they spend .00001 seconds glancing at your info and in less than a minute you have a stamp on your hand and you're on your way to the classroom asking where the bathroom is. </p>
<p>I just saw the thread about the two people who cheated on the SAT</p>
<p>Anyway have thoughts about people taking tests for others? I know this is old news and that a lot of people have done it, but should CollegeBoard do something about it? Anyways, just a random thought.;)</p>
<p>Like with a lot of things, security on the SAT doesn’t come necessarily from making it impossible to cheat. It comes from making the consequences for getting caught large enough that few people are willing to risk it. Because if you get caught badly cheating on the SAT, your future is probably going to be a bit different than how you imagined.</p>
<p>Identical twins could easliy do it and never get caught & they’d never even have to make fake ids. Similarly, if you had an older sibling who looked very much like you, you’d probably never get caught either</p>
<p>Would I ever do it? No, it’s wrong, and it conflicts with my own ethical principles.</p>
<p>However, is it possible? Yes. Getting caught cheating will not even give you a slap on the wrist. A girl at my school got caught fixing answers from an earlier section and all they did was cancel her scores. It’s as if she never even took the test. She took it again in January, without a hitch (I was in the same room with her). Colleges don’t find out either.</p>
<p>HOWEVER, taking the test for someone else is called identity theft. You could go to prison. In fact, I could pretty much guarantee you WILL get into legal trouble if you get caught.</p>
<p>Cheating by looking back at previous answers is fundamentally different than cheating by taking the test for someone else. They’re both bad, but the punishments are not the same.</p>
<p>Like futurephysician said, if you take the SAT for someone and you’re caught, it is taken very seriously, because that’s identity theft/impersonation. If you’re caught cheating off another person, your scores will be invalidated, but often times, the testing center/proctor takes the extra step and informs your high school, and that is what usually leads to bigger consequences if they establish that you cheated.</p>
<p>Is it speculation or you actually know what you said happen? I have read many threads of these kinds of incidents and I have not come across one that people got in trouble with. Identity theft does not seem to fit the bill and I am not even sure it can be legally arguable as identity theft. No proctor will call the cop in the first place. These are minors who unlikely to be prosecuted, they don’t even go to jail for a much worse offense than this. This is not a school activity so I am not even sure that school has jurisdiction over such an event. The CollegeBoard is paying to use the facility to administer the test, and it is an issue mostly between student and CollegeBoard.</p>
<p>This is very appalling and there should be bigger punishment, but let’s face facts and not say something just to appease our contempt for it. Most students get away with it, and CollegeBoard might have a bigger incentive to keep the whole issue low key and not to bring attention to it.</p>
<p>I am SO surprised!! I thought that there would be serious consequences, as you’d be able to take the test again…but all your colleges, high school, parents would be notified. Especially colleges since they have that box which you check if you have ever had any misdemeanor like that. Especially on the SATs whose main purpose is for colleges to have an objective analysis of each student. </p>
<p>If the punishment is so lenient people will be swayed to cheat even more knowing that they will suffer small consequences.</p>
<p>I heard that cheating incident from my friend yesterday-about koreans who cheated…
Wasn’t feeling good about it because they cheated at SAT test centre opened at my school…^^; I’m afraid people would think it was students in our school who cheated(sigh)</p>
<p>Anyhow, i really think its dumb to cheat on such tests…
I mean, even if you get high score by cheating-lets say… 2300- and are accpeted by a prestigious school- lets say, hmm…Stanford University-, if you dont study hard for yourself, at last people would find out you are not good enough to get that high score// wouldnt they? Well, still, it is true that collegeboard should think of a heavier punishment…</p>
<p>Another major flaw that CB should look into–the time difference. I took the test around 16 hours than people on the West Coast because I live in Hong Kong. It would be so easy to give someone the answers.</p>
<p>Do they use different questions? I know when my friends and I take the test at different high schools because of space issues, and when we discuss questions afterwards, some sections were different. So they do have different experimental sections. Anyone know if the tests are different for different time zones?</p>
<p>I actually know a couple of kids who paid my school’s salutatorian ~$500 to take the SAT first time for them. It’s virtually impossible to get caught, as the peoples up at CB have only one sample of handwriting. Also, making a fake ID is NOT identity theft unless the ID is government or officially licensed. Technically, you are allowed to “call” yourself whatever you want, and will face no legal penalties if you create a self-made ID card with your picture and a different name.</p>