<p>Actually, before the test is taken, during the instructions, we are told that if there is any cheating going on, we are to call the College Board and report the cheating. You are reporting to the TESTING INTEGRITY office.</p>
<p>The OP had every right in the world, and even an OBLIGATION to report this. When you let things like this go, it just exacerbates the problem. Grow up. All of you guys who are like “his popularity will suffer” this is an AP kid. The friends that the OP has obviously are held in high regard. They believe in DOING THE RIGHT THING. </p>
<p>Every one of you who tell him to let it go . . . you are cowards. You are going to be the men that sit at home watching TV while your wife goes and screws every guy in town. Because you don’t have the balls to stand up and SAY something. </p>
<p>Cheating on AP exam is a big deal. Yes, things might get hairy, but it’s what’s RIGHT. The OP is absolutely right in reporting this. Any sensible, mature, ADULT teacher will back him up. </p>
<p>Also, stop talking about the “real world.” You all are just sitting in your bedroom playing on the laptop mommy and daddy bought you. You know NOTHING about the real world. You’re still in high school. Therefore, you have that mentality.</p>
<p>Remember that everybody who takes an AP exam has to sign an agreement on the front of their test that they will not cheat, and will report any cheating they see to the Collegeboard.</p>
<p>Everybody in this thread who took an AP signed that agreement. Ethically speaking, IMHO, it was right for the OP to honor that agreement. It’s the Collegeboard’s job to determine the consequences, not testers.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t have made an accusation that they cheated cuz doing so would most likely foil everyone’s exam. Personally what I think you should have done is that you could have cursed their lives so that at some point, their troubles would snowball and pay their tolls of cheating in life. </p>
<p>But as somebody said… the deed of notifying the Office of Testing Integrity has been done… so you can’t reverse it. I truly apologize if this is going to hurt but I think others will despise you, regardless of the fact that what you have done was courageous and moral.</p>
<p>On a sidenote, lemme tell you a bit of my story. While sitting the exam, I was sitting in the back of the testing room and saw some people cheating too. Were they likely to ace the test and score 4’s and 5’s? Very possibly, NO. Although they were close enough to see each other’s answers, a lot of them did not really study intensely and ended up skipping a lot of MC’s so even if they joined forces to conquer the AP exam they couldn’t help it; they skipped too much of these MCQ’s and no one knew the answer.</p>
<p>Of course I did not accuse them of cheating cuz I knew that they were going to add numbers on the pool of people who got 1’s and 2’s.</p>
<p>“Character is higher than intellect.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson</p>
<p>People of integrity reach the top of the mountain, while the rest of the population remains in the valley. They see the world that others have only read in books. Doing the right thing these days is considered studpid and folly. Nonetheless, it is people of these type that will become somebody in life, the majority of the population are commoners. </p>
<p>I am disgusted with people who think cheating is okay. If their girlfriend or boyfriend was cheating on them, will they still think that is okay?</p>
<p>It’s not about the cheating in and of itself…
Obviously, in an ideal system, cheaters get caught and are the ones who face the consequences.</p>
<p>However, that’s not the way the College Board rolls. If they aren’t able to find conclusive evidence that the two girls the OP reported cheated, they’ll just cancel the class’s scores, if not the school’s.</p>
<p>That’s ridiculously unfair and a price the OP shouldn’t force the rest of the kids to pay…Imagine having to retake the AP in the summer. I would probably beat the living **** out of the OP if I was in his class and was forced to do so…</p>
<p>So all of you supporting the OP, get off your moral high horses and try to understand the repercussions of his actions. This isn’t about taking ethical action…
Hell, in a utilitarian moral framework, the OP’s action is immoral since he jeopardizes so many others. Likewise in a deontological perspective.</p>
<p>"I wish I could say that reporting cheating is the right thing to do, but I don’t think its worth having the **** totally hit the fan over. A kid in a school near mine was accused of cheating and everyone’s scores were withheld until an investigation (involving the freaking FBI) ended in like October. "</p>
<p>Oh my I think this whole thing is so melodramatic…</p>
<p>My girlfriend has cheated on me twice. I cheated on her two weekends ago.</p>
<p>It doesn’t mean it is disgusting or wrong. It is whether you can tolerate it. Personally, I don’t even call it cheating. We have an open relationship. I’m not going to make her or myself wear blinders because of a crappy attempt at objectifying morals and social tradition.</p>
<p>Wow, I’m appalled that some members of CC, a community I thought was where the cream of the crop were, have nothing resembling a conscience.</p>
<p>I don’t care if the cheaters make a million while I make nothing. I still have my ethics, and good luck buying that from me. Cheaters never win, winners never cheat. End of story.</p>
<p>Advantages are relative. Morality is subjective. Regardless, these tests are superficial in value. If we are testing for true intelligence, we’d test for analytical thinking and reasoning. </p>
<p>If the question is asking for the correct definition of X, does it really matter if your answer is from the giant list of words you memorized before the test or the dictionary you used during the test? Either way is artificial. We should be tested on how to use the word. </p>
<p>I didn’t quite answer the question, but I am against the conventional way of test taking. I refuse to say that X is not allowed because it is advantageous while memorizing a list of words or dates or people is just as advantageous.</p>
<p>students are supposed to help each other out… let the teachers catch the cheaters… you just screwed over 2 classmates… and potentially many more</p>
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