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"…the supervisor would check the handwriting, similar? "
By supervisor, you are now speaking of the person who let you into the testing center and not the proctor in the room with you?
If you mean proctor - the person there in the room administering the exam - I don’t know that that would help to prove anything other than the same person wrote on both sides, it does not prove the chronology (or timeframe) in which it was written.
If you mean this person should check BEFORE the beginning of the exam, then, yes, that would at least help to clear up any issues of whether you entered with a “cheat” sheet. That would increase the work of the proctors, but is a good idea.
I now realize you are probably at an international testing center. I had not realized that at the outset, and that could further complicate the issue as there have been numerous scandals surrounding international test instruction centers (not the actual testing centers) giving their students (sometimes unwittingly) access to exams taken just months before in the US, to study in preparation for their upcoming exam.
You will have to wait and see if the test will be allowed to stand. My best to you.
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@NearMello: That is your problem, not mine.
Thanks guys, alright. I didn’t realize I was that stupid anyways, thanks for your replies. If you recommend me a special E-mail of the collegeboard for such Issues or a skype, i’d be grateful.
Here is the email adress: testcenter
@info.collegeboard.org
From this website:
https://sat.collegeboard.org/contact
Feel bad for you, so what happened afterwards? I wrote some math formulas on the booklet before the test started
I had the same issue today but a little bit different. I was on section four and it was a critical reading section. I was writing the main points of each paragraph so I wouldn’t lose focus on the passage. As I was writing on the admission paper, the proctor saw me writing on it and dismissed me right away. I was humiliated in front of everyone. The proctor didn’t even let me explain, so I called college board and complained.
@senior98: I talked to my daughter, a HS senior as I assume some of you are, and she explained to me that her proctors have always 1)fully read the instructions of admissible/inadmissible test practices, 2)told the students that there should be no paper on the desktop at all except for the test booklet and answer sheet, and 3) told the students to place their admission tickets on the floor under their chairs.
You did not state what the nature of your complaint was, beyond having been shamed publicly, but I would like to suggest that you inquire as to whether the proctor has the purview to dismiss you from the room before you finish the exam. I have never heard of it, and would think the procedure may be to file a report/submit your name for review to the College Board, but nothing more.
Can you read over the information on the digital copy of your admission ticket and see if there is information about the proctor’s right to elect to dismiss a student from the exam room?
( EDIT: I did find this at the College Board’s website: “If a student’s device makes noise, he or she is seen using it or attempting to access it at any time, including breaks, he or she will be dismissed immediately, the student’s scores can be canceled, and the device may be confiscated.”)
So, they do have the right, at least in that circumstance.
As you did not finish your exam, you will probably not have that exam scored, but may be offered the chance to take it again at no cost. This is one scenario I could see as being possible, if the College Board reviews your case and finds that dismissal was an extreme and unnecessary step. My best-guess scenario only.
I don’t know what the full set of rules are, and the proctors are acting as representatives for the College Board, so they are the voice of authority in that room.
According to the rules your testing ticket should’ve been under your test after you filled out your personable information.
I certainly believe in what you said. But the proctor does not have any evidence whatsoever that you did not write this before the test (when you’re at home).
Everyone has example lists, like for me I have a list consisting keys words for “1984, Fahrenheit 451, Steve Jobs, David Hahn, Khan Academy, Civil Rights movements, etc.” I’m just saying that to tell you, it is totally possible for someone to cheat by putting those ideas/bullet points on the testing ticket. Why does Collegeboard prohibit scratch paper? Same reason. Who knows what you have on there? Right?
Therefore, it is reasonable for your proctor to report you, since you violated the Collegeboard rule. Personally I wouldn’t, but you can’t blame him/her for doing so.
However, I strongly doubt that your score will get canceled. You’re not caught cheating, using electronic devices or anything like that. So even if you’re at fault it will be a minor one.
I think you’ll be fine. Have a good rest and tomorrow it’s guna be all good. I wish you the best luck!
One last thing tho…why didn’t you just write on the test booklet??! It doesn’t make sense to me. There’re a lot of spaces, especially since you’re just writing ideas or long sentences, those spaces would be perfectly suffice. So why write on the admission ticket??
The proctor did not ask us to put the admission ticket under the desks or chairs. Some people did choose, no one asked them to, to put it under chairs and some had it beside the testing book. The proctor sa
The proctor noticed I have the ticket on desk, but at the end of the test time while she picking the booklets, she report me?
And I am used to arrange my points for the Essay on the admission ticket, but my draft for the rest of the test was within the booklet. Again I didn’t hear the proctor saying we should put the ticket under the desk, nor did I see a proctor reporting the test taker who did likewise, she merely asked for erasing it, this is why I was encouraged to do the same.
Not knowing the rules doesn’t exempt you from them.
@marvin100: “Not knowing the rules doesn’t exempt you from them.” True, ignorance of the law is no excuse, is how they taught HS business law, however…
A procedural error made by a representative of the convening authority can invalidate the right to enforce penalties against those who, in receiving instruction or in being supervised by said representative, failed to receive the full and proper rules and regulations.
The breach may not be that of the students alone, or at all, if they can show (and this will be difficult in the absence of corroborating statements) there to be such an error of the acting authority.
I think that the OPs problem is that, listed right on the admissions ticket, is a number of ‘prohibited items.’ This list includes scratch paper. OP was using his admission ticket as scratch paper.
I don’t think that it’s unreasonable to assume that students should read the rules beforehand. I doubt that the proctor generally runs through all of the prohibited items (dictionaries, highlighters, scratch paper, etc…) in the testing room because that information is readily available before you arrive for the test.
I’m sorry that OP was unaware of that stricture and suffered from it, but I think it unlikely that College Board will agree that he could not possibly have known that to be against the rules.
@MostlyDolores I just checked my admission ticket pages, where does It say “working on scratch paper” is prohibited? Also It’s not a “scratch paper”, It’s my ticket that the proctor did allow us to place it infront of us. I’m pretty sure this will not affect my scores because writing some ideas for the Essay would never lead to a score cancellation nor to a test dismissal. You guys, or most of you, seem to know less about my situation.
I let my parents speak with my proctor about it, she said she just wrote “Writing notes for essay on admission ticket during the test”, and she also stated that It wouldn’t affect my scores in any way that we don’t have to be worried about it. I know the rules pretty well and I am still sure, even check any admission ticket, that there’s no rule prohibiting writing on the ticket. I don’t see the “scratch paper” rule either, but even If there is, my case is disparate.
@Zeyad187 : That is what I looked at also, and saw such a prohibition was not stated. Hope you get into the schools you’re shooting for.
@Zeyad187 @Waiting2exhale the prohibition is on the SECOND page of the ticket (not the one with your picture on it) under “Important Test Day Information”
Also, my proctor told us to put our ticket under the table after registration bubbling and to only take it out when we left the room.
@Waiting2exhale Thanks very much for looking and for your nice words.
@loquatical You speak the truth: One of the things to leave at home before leaving to the test is a scratch paper, but why do you consider my Admission ticket as one? That is first, second why did the proctor notice my admission ticket on the desk and didn’t ask me to put it under my chair? Quite simply because she did not mention it within the instructions before the test, and finally, I got my Admission Ticket checked thrice: First time at the entry area, second time to receive my room and desk number, and the third time to check whether I am the real test taker. At these three times, No writing on my ticket was noticed - even though the Ideas I wrote during the Essay section was obtrusive.
With all that being said, what rule did I contravene? I respect everyone’s viewpoint. Some will view my case negatively and others postively, but thanks for trying to clear it up!
Because when you wrote on it, you used it as scratch paper.
The tricky thing about the reuse of the admission ticket as scratch paper is that the prohibition is on bringing single-definition scratch paper with you.
It can be implied that the makeshift use of the admission ticket constitutes the use of scratch paper, but not that he entered with scratch paper from home. He entered with his admission ticket - what he did with that admission ticket later was work his ideas out on the permissible admission ticket instead of on alternate available surfaces, namely the work section of the test booklet. That did not invalidate or alchemise the admission ticket into something other than a two-sided, recycled admission ticket.
He entered the room with materials that were legal and within the rules.
Scratch paper is any paper used to take notes on and is often “recycled” from some other use (offices–mine included–often keep a box of used paper for “scratch paper” use).
The CB says students may not bring in scratch paper but says students may use the test booklet as scratch paper. I can imagine one perceiving that as ambiguous if one is determined to do so, but to me, it pretty clearly means that the only note-taking surface allowed is the test booklet itself.