<p>if you report it, your entire school’s scores - for EVERY AP test, not just this one - will likely be canceled. so I guess the question is if it’s worth jeopardizing your own score.</p>
<p>The OP would be “an ass” for reporting the girl- like an above poster said, maybe the rules weren’t clarified to her. And anyway, what will messing up her life help you gain? I seriously can’t believe the OP said “I don’t want the curve to be messed up…” The curve won’t be messed up because of 1 person out of approximately 400,000 taking the test.</p>
<p>Whoa whoa whoa. I had no idea of the consequences of reporting. I don’t intend to report. Everyone needs to please breathe. My comment about the curve was in regards to the hypothetical scenario in which several people do this. I won’t be reporting, I didn’t know of the consequences, hence why I came here for advice.</p>
<p>Welp you’ve already decided… But I definitely wouldn’t recommend reporting her. It could jeopardize everyone’s AP scores, and it’s not worth it. Besides, during the reading period, you’re allowed to start writing out your ideas in the prompt booklet so what’s the REAL difference? I know, I know, it’s against the rules, but she would have started writing either way. I just think the negatives of reporting far outweigh the positives.</p>
<p>I understand people telling the OP not to report since all the scores from his/her school are likely to get canceled. But WT<em>. People who tell the OP not to be an ass and not to report just not to </em>* up the girl’s life are seriously being stupid here. She JUST CHEATED on the exam and for those who studied hard are not gonna like her behavior. Who cares if it ****s up her life, she deserves it. If the OP reports it and all the scores are canceled, then is it still a minor problem? She just caused all of it. Obvisouly Tax violation and having 15 more minutes in AP exams are not comparable and are in totally different scale, but the fact that both are going against the rule/law is the same. Just because the action is minor doesn’t mean it can be ignored. Are those telling the OP not to screw the girl’s life doing the same things on the exams? Yeah, just keep letting people cheat on the exams and call the reporters “ASS”</p>
<p>I think more people are saying now because it’s not just HER score that would get invalidated; it would be the entire school’s.</p>
<p>Regardless of whether or not she actually gained anything from starting her essay writing early (considering that would mean she would have delegated absolutely no time to constructing an outline), if an act of academic impropriety was committed by any student and you witnessed it, it is your responsibility to report it. I think it’s interesting how people are posting that her 15-minute advantage will not affect your score when her score is considered in the overall curve. She made the decision either to not listen, or to neglect the rules. I would certainly report that incident to the OTI. It’s not really up to us to make a determination based on what the OTI will do as a result.</p>
<p>I’m all for following the letter of the law, but if College Board’s reaction to an accusation of cheating by one student at a school is to cancel the scores of every student at said school, it should hardly be a surprise that a culture of silence will develop among test-takers.</p>
<p>from what i understand there is no curve…</p>
<p>If she was behind you, how do you know she was writing her essay and not taking notes? The only way you’d know was if you turned around to look and then you might be accused of cheating yourself. As others have posted, is it worth the ramifications?</p>
<p>I posted awhile back that I would not be reporting, but I’ll come back to this thread to answer questions. We were writing on those plasticky tables where every press of your pen can be heard by the people within a few seats of you. Several of us could hear her writing and turned around to verify.</p>