December 5 SAT Test

Test Preparation
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Today, at the moment I started working on section 1 (The Essay), I wrote down some Ideas that It will support me in writing about the Essay’s Topic in order not to forget any of them due to my nervousness. Then, I wrote my Essay, and when the time was over I placed my pencils on the desk and waited to work for the next section.

I’m writing now especially to let you know about my Issue and to know what the result will be, so at the END of the time, when the test administration was over and also when the test supervisor was picking up the answer and test sheets, the supervisor noticed the listed ideas written down on my Admission Ticket.Instead of reminding me to erase it before the departure from the Testing center, she took my Admission Ticket and I was reported, even though I’ve witnessed - in my previous tests - a test taker who did the same doing and was only told to erase his writing. My admission ticket did never include any testing material from the book nor did include the Essay topic, but just included a listed ideas to help me remember my points about the Essay Topic. Moreover, the supervisor did not mention any rule prohibiting the use of Admission Ticket as a draft for listing Ideas, nor did I see any notice information doing so on the Ticket.I wasn’t given a chance to explain, just withdrawal of my admission ticket and reporting it with the writing on it’s back.

I honestly do not see my case as necessary as to be reported. All I did was listing my ideas - when I began working on section - on the admission ticket, and I would have erased it but as soon as the supervisor noticed a writing on the back, she reported it, when I tried to explain, “I don’t care about what you wrote on the ticket, it must be reported” She said. Please can you let me know what happens in such cases - ignorantly reporting a test taker - ? Will it have any effect on my writing or essay score? The Essay is in my very own hand writing, I was shocked and astounded by what happened, until know I’m too worried about it, I do NOT wish to admit any NEW SAT tests, so this was my last!

Thank you in advance,
Awaiting your reply!

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Lol I read this wrong.

I have no idea what will happen, you should have not written in the admin ticket and instead wrote in the answer booklet on the side.

I would encourgae you to try and contact the invigilator/and as a last resort contact collegeboard to let them know about the situation.

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Yea, I did inform the collegeboard once I left the testing center.But probably I had a stupid supervisor supervising the test, they say the instructions before you begin the test, I did not hear that i’m not allowed to write on the admission ticket.

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Also what is wrong with a list I made that would help me keeping my Ideas in mind

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From what I see is that you provide the admission ticket on your own, therefore if anything wriiten on it could mean that you brought it in from home, I know you said you didn’t but to them it could look so.

I’m sorry for your situation but be wary that you may have to do it again, hopefully it won’t come to that, you didn’t have bad intentions etc. just hope cb see it like that.

Was the SAT hard?

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Yes, but how could I have been admitted If I brought from home with a writing on it’s back? It would be so obvious to the supervisors who check my ID & the ticket. I still don’t see a reason for reporting it, as I mentioned in my first post, i really did see someone do the same and he ended up ONLY erasing it. And what do you mean by doing it again? The Essay or the Test?

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Yes, Reading was hard and I didn’t do good at it, but Math & Writing were hard but I could do good at them

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Assume I did, even though I never did, that I brought it with the writing on it. How the hell could I know the Essay topics? Is that even possible?

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Yes collegeboard recycle the tests.

I meant the test you need to clarify this with collegboard.

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Alright, I already sent an e-mail to the customer services. but do you agree with me that this shouldn’t have been reported? :confused:

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I agree yeah for whats its worth.

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Zeyad187: Can you say why you wrote on the admission ticket and not the blank answer area in the test booklet? (Sounds like you printed the admission ticket at home, and could easily, therefore, have had the second ticket with notes in your pocket and taken it out after you passed the entry area for the test center.)

My first and only thought here is that students will have been told numerous times what the process for testing is - what is expected of them as well as what is expected of the proctor. Many students will have taken the SAT before, and also, therefore, have been exposed to the rules.

It is common in standardized testing situations for scratch paper to be given to students, and then collected at the end of the session. Where that is not done, and the blank areas of the test booklet are allowed to be written on, it is greatly expected that that will be the only other place you will work.

I hope your appeal works out for you.

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Hey? Where to write down my ideas? I couldn’t find an area to write them in the answers sheet, If you mean I should have written on the test book, this idea didn’t come to my mind, to be honest, since I begin working on the answer sheet after section 1 (After the Essay). Repeating it twice, How is it possible for me to KNOW what the topic of Essay will be? I’ve never heard before that a student can cheat on the Essay. It would be pretty obvious to the College Board whether it’s a student-developed Essay or not.

Look, I would agree with you to think of the test taker as suspicious If the admission ticket included either test materials or numbers and calculations, but Ideas to an Essay? Ex: 1) It’s not necessary to be *** (Topic’s name), 2) **** doesn’t always work out, 3)…etc. So, you would think - and you really did - that I got them from Home, then repeating it thrice, how would I know the Topic I’m going to write about?

Really I would get pretty pissed off and frustrated if I get my test scores canceled, make up a test for ONLY the Essay for me? or prove that I’m really capable of writing an essay I will be really ready for it. But canceling my scores for finding “Ideas” written for a essay that could possibly have never been known is such a stupid decision and I wouldn’t be satisfied at all with it.

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Actually if it is only ideas, such as “use speech” “use short sentences” etc. you should definitiely be fine.

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No, It’s ideas for the topic, but written WITHIN the section of the Essay. Does that make any problems?

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Calm down, Z. I was going through the reasons your appeal may elicit no positive action, not accusing, but using the basis for which your appeal might be rejected.

It sounds to me, though not to NearMello, that you were brainstorming key support points for the essay topic, so that as you went along you would remember to incorporate them and not be derailed by the point you listed prior. An idea bank related to the prompt. Is that correct?

And you are stating that it would have been unequivocally impossible for you to have had access to the specific prompt before the exam, so that even with your idea bank, you should be understood to have formulated it ONLY after exposure to the prompt, at the time of the exam and not a moment earlier.

This is what I understand you are saying, and it is what I understood you to say the first time.

I am merely considering that the person who submits the red flag may use a language suggestive of something which then leads the College Board people to come to a conclusion based on that language/ticket.

While I hope it works in your favor, if you are contacted for the simple explanation, you will need to keep your cool. Give the simple explanation, using a chronological play-by-play.

The suspicion that you may have had access to the test is one which makes sense if the College Board believes you had access to the test before the administering of the exam. That is a loop in thought, and one which you will not be the most effective at talking your way out of if the College Board people have only the proctor’s considered (and under the color of authority) statement.

Make yours a considered statement.

Again, I hope this works out for you.

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@Zeyad187 I think it may go down to whether the essay question had been used before then. If this was the first testing of the essayquestion then you should be okay.

@Waiting2exhale I have no idea what you are talking about, I am completely on Zeyad’s side here. He has gone through an injustice and I am hopeful for his sake he does not face any consequences as his invigilator sounds like a complete whore.

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Yeah, I wrote the idea bank during the section time not earlier, or later either. If you’d like to see a screenshot of my scores I wouldn’t mind, I scored, so far, 650 at writing and 410 at reading. You supposedly have 5 minutes of the section time to think of what your essay will include, of ideas. However, I needed to make it easier for myself, instead of using my brain to arrange ideas, I used my admission ticket.

I’m just upset because I already saw one committing the same doing before, the supervisor command was to erase it only. No actions were ever taken then. Also I still stick to my opinion, that the Essay topic couldn’t have possibly been leaked to me. Another reason for being upset is that I am not, at all, willing to do the test again, I’m fed up with joining already 5 SAT trials and this is supposed to be my last one, since few countries are forbidden from testing in January, so It’s going to be the new SAT if I would want to join again. So that guy who did the same got away with it and returned back home happy and when I do it, I get reported?

By the way, the report included a photo copy of my Admission Ticket and It’s back (what’s written on it). If the College Board review it and realize that It’s just “ideas” nothing less nothing more, would it work out for me?

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I really regret doing so. A good supervisor - to avoid such cases - should check both the back and front of the two pages of the admission ticket, so If anything is written during the test, the supervisor would check the handwriting, similar? then ask the test taker to erase it, or at least warn him and forbid him of writing out of the testing sheet.
Now I feel that I am going to be punished for something that’s not worth it, or that’s shouldn’t be really put in consideration

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Hopefully it will be okay, for the example you are talking about for that other person was that in today’s exam. Because if it was you could tell collegeboard about that too.