The girl behind me began writing her essays as soon as we were told to open the orange booklets containing prompts. We weren’t supposed to open the pink answer documents - by the time we were told to open them she had a paragraph an a half done. I find it unfair that she got an extra fifteen minutes - should I bother reporting this to the Office of Testing Integrity?</p>
report it in my opinion</p>
why not just rejoice in the fact that she probably didn’t write an adequate essay due to her refusal to participate in the mandatory reading period?</p>
Did she start writing the paragraphs in her orange booklet? Or was it the actual pink answer booklet? If it was the pink answer booklet, I’d report her to the OTI. I’m sure plenty of kids do it each year, gaining an unfair advantage and messing up the curve. If it was in her orange booklet, she did nothing wrong. She was given a mandatory reading period, and knew that nothing in the orange booklet was being scored. Maybe she just wanted to practice or plan her essay out in the booklet.</p>
It was the pink answer booklet. I just don’t want to deal with the curve being screwed up, plus it’s not fair to have a paragraph worth of advantage…</p>
Don’t be an ass, just let it be.</p>
Also, I doubt she started writing right away. She had to have read the documents to know what to make a thesis. Secondly, she probably just wrote an introduction and another sentence or two of the first pragraph. I did that too, except I did it in the orange document and copied it to the pink document once the reading period was over. It took me about two minutes to copy over, so she was probably only about 2 minutes infront of you. Either way, do you think its worth possibly *****ing up this girls life rn (they could expel her for testing integrity which will make it hard for her to get into any decent college) over something so minuscule?</p>
Also one person doesn’t mess up the curve, lol.</p>
Report it immediately. If you don’t and someone else saw it as well and reported it, you would be an implicit accomplice in her cheating because you neglected to report it. Reporting academic impropriety is not about being “an ass,” it’s for her good as well as yours.</p>
do you really think she’s going to be the reason you get a 4?</p>
Also, if your school gets another infraction reported, multiple infractions could mean collegeboard will refuse to let your school give AP classes. Happened to a school by me because they had multiple complaints in one year.</p>
Or they could just invalidate everyone scores in the room.</p>
Seriously, you have ABSOLUTELY nothing to gain from reporting it. By reporting it there are repercussions.</p>
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“Forgetting” to include a digit on your tax form is so miniscule as well, except when that happens and you get audited you’d really be ****ed up with a felony charge and up to a hundred grand just in fines. Learning that cutting corners doesn’t pay is best done earlier in life, not later. Of course, acting altruistically and according to principle is entirely your call.</p>
One paragraph is not going to mess up the curve enough to be the difference between scores for you. I’m with pbojkner - the drawbacks to reporting her far outweigh the benefits.</p>
Wait… I don’t think the 15 minute reading period is mandatory, just suggested. The OP makes it seem like she just skimmed really fast and started the essay while others were still reading. I don’t think that counts as cheating</p>
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.</p>
^^ The reading period is mandatory. You can’t open your response sheet and start writing within those 15 mins. You can however, make notes in the orange booklet.</p>
The entire school’s scores will be canned. If you feel it to be serious do it. Better question is why were you looking behind you during the exam?</p>
Oh, I didn’t know it was mandatory. I don’t know… reporting it seems like a pretty low thing to do. The girl may not have known it was against the rules (in my testing site they didn’t clarify at all, so I saw lots of people doing the same thing and didn’t know they were doing anything wrong). Anyway, it’s not going to affect your score.</p>
It’s not worth it. What is there to gain? The satisfaction that potential hours/days, well, technically a year, goes to waste over something that could very well be a misunderstanding? Besides, situations featuring people with penchants like hers, assuming she purposefully cheated, often work themselves out justly in the long run. </p>
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Lol, get over it.</p>
<p>Okay, dude. If she’s a good writer she won’t even need those 15 minutes. She may not be as great a writer. In any case, she planned out her time and used it accordingly. it’s 15 minutes, and that’s barely anything.</p>
<p>You seriously can’t compare tax violations to starting a test 15 minutes early. Stop being ridiculous- all of you advocating reporting the girl need to get a life, and stop trying to ruin hers. Did you ever think that maybe there wasn’t enough space for her to have her own testing room, and she got extended time?</p>