<p>I know cell phones aren't allowed in any exam but before the exam I remember the proctor saying that if she sees or hears a cell phone then she has to take it away, "send it to the AP" (I assume the ETS or Collegeboard), everyone who is taking the exam will have their scores canceled, and the school can't teach that AP course anymore.</p>
<p>Can anyone confirm that CB does this? I understand that one person can ruin it for the whole group but that is really really harsh...</p>
<p>I have never heard anyone say that. I would expect the proctor to just ask that student to leave and then cancel that student’s test.</p>
<p>Well if they suspect cheating, they do reserve their right to do this. This didn’t happen with AP, but it did happen with the SAT. When I was taking the June SAT, I guess they caught a kid in the back pull out an iPod Touch. He was dismissed and his iPod was confiscated (and I would assume sent to ETS).</p>
<p>EDIT: And CB is known for being harsh with things like this. Sometimes when one person in the group of AP testers is caught cheating, they cancel everyone who tested in that room scores. (Side question silverturtle: Where would I put the apostrophe and s in my previous sentence to make it possessive and grammatically correct? I know I’m supposed to have one, but can’t find where exactly I can put it…)</p>
<p>If the cell phone rings, proctor just takes away the student’s scantron or free-response booklet and ensures that the student’s score is canceled. If a student is seen with a cell phone, the likely action a proctor would take is to cancel the exams and have the students take the late exams. However, I believe that the consequence of a school unable to teach an AP course due to mentioned above is an exaggeration or a lie to scare the students.</p>
<p>^Who said anything about the school being unable to teach the AP course?</p>
<p>^the OP…</p>
<p>^Sorry about that…I can’t read. I swear I didn’t even see that before lol. Yeah that I def. don’t think is true. But they are known to cancel the scores of other students in the room.</p>
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<p>“they cancel everyone who tested in that room['s] scores.”</p>
<p>It sounds awkward because you have an intervening relative clause with a prepositional phrase after the modifier.</p>
<p>Oh I see, maybe CB does cancel scores of other students so the proctor was too paranoid about it and decided to exaggerate to the students.</p>
<p>Elaborating on post #8, I should note that you would probably want to write the possessive in such cases, as in:</p>
<p>“they cancel the score of everyone who tested in that room.”</p>
<p>Yep, they do this. A couple years ago at my school, a few people who wanted to blow off the AP tests decided it would be fun to ruin it for everyone, so pulled out phones during tests and every student in the room had their test invalidated (I’m sure they were allowed to retake - the non-phone people that is). Seems ridiculous, but I guess they’re really protective of the sanctity of their national test.</p>
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<p>That’s incredibly selfish</p>
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Oh yes. Though I’m sure they were punished severely. I didn’t know them, and I’m quite glad.</p>
<p>Thanks silverturtle for the impromptu grammar lesson.</p>
<p>@BillyMc: I would be ****ed BEYOND all hell if someone at my school tried that prank.</p>
<p>^Yeah. And they had to invalidate, because it was the rules, but a kid laughing and pulling out a phone and placing it in front of a moderator as she walked by was obviously not trying to cheat, just be an ass to everyone else.</p>
<p>“they cancel everyone who tested in that room['s] scores.”</p>
<p>No, the scores are not a possession of the room; they are a possession of everyone in this case. What you hav here changes the original meaning. Post 10 is correct, however.</p>
<p>^No, I disagree, mockingbird7. “who tested in that room” is like an adjective that modifies “everyone.” Ideally, it would be “they cancel everyone’s scores,” but the modifying phrase must come in between “everyone” and the " 's "</p>
<p>Unfortunately the way post 8 dealt withe problem left the meaning ambiguous. In addition one cannot partition off apart of a sentence and add an “'s”; you can only do it to a noun.</p>
<p>Excuse me typos. I am typing from a phone. Withe means with the.</p>
<p>I only see one interpretation. “Everyone who tested in that room” is your noun, and the apostrophe + s makes it possessive and “scores” is what’s being possessed by “everyone who tested in that room.”</p>