Did I cheat?

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>To practice for the AP exam in May, I used Google to find an AP Statistics practice exam. I found the audit exam and used this to prepare. Then in June, we had our AP Stat final exam. The teacher used the same one and I was overjoyed. I took it the last period on the Friday before Memorial Day.</p>

<p>Another class took it first period that Friday; they told some of the people in my class questions on the final and once a few students used Google, they attained the final as well.</p>

<p>People talk...so soon, I got numerous calls and emails asking me what the final was. I was at the beach with my family, so I turned off my phone, and refused to tell anyone (this would be cheating obviously). </p>

<p>I received an email from a girl with 2 attachments, asking me which one the final was (she did in fact have it). She was trying to seduce me into it. I told one of my friends 2 days later and forwarded the email to him, with the body saying "I never responded and this is disgusting". It was in fact disgusting, and I'm impartial so I did not respond. We were LOLing for quite some time though. The other classes taking the final on the Tuesday (after Memorial Day) had a countless numbers of 99s and 100s. The teacher obviously got skeptical but could not prove people had cheated.</p>

<p>Well, it's January now. The teacher did a HUGE favor for the student that I had forwarded that email to, so he sent her the email I had sent him to get that girl in trouble (everyone hates her). Its obvious that I didn't respond to the girl that sent me the message.</p>

<p>The two of us got called to the principal's office, with him saying that I can get in trouble for not reporting an attempt to cheat. She got yelled at for attempting to cheat. We both might have letters sent to colleges when we are applying (I'm a junior); mine would say that I did not report a student attempting to cheat. I personally do not think this is justified. </p>

<p>Obviously my AP Stats teacher is enraged at me, but I feel as if I haven't done anything wrong. I unintentionally had the final exam and did not distribute it. Obviously, I was dubbed as one of the members of the group of people who had 99+ grades because they had the exam.</p>

<p>I do not wish to snitch on my peers either, who did do it. Like 10 of my friends. </p>

<p>Got a 5 too. **** my school.</p>

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<p>Cliff’s

  • Dumbass AP Stat teacher uses a test straight from google
  • Tryhard student is practicing for a joke class final and finds the test
  • Tryhard student figures out that it’s the same test, and tells friends.
  • Tryhard student gets yelled at, with no punishment except his stat teacher is angry.</p>
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<p>^I did not tell friends. 36 calls and emails total; did not respond to a single one of them and the consequences are above (I edited); we didn’t get suspended, but I’m getting a note on my transcript.</p>

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<p>You didn’t cheat, you won’t get into any real trouble.</p>

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<p>Okay, so you found this test early, took it for practice, and then were elated when it was the actual exam. You then told no one about this fact, and 36 people decided to take a good guess and just assume that you were the one with the golden link?</p>

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<p>4 people were asking me. 36 times the 4 people annoyed the **** out of me trying to learn about the final (questions, etc.)</p>

<p>^People did realize though, after my score came back that I did have the final. I mean, obviously, no one gets a near-perfect score on the actual AP multiple choice. </p>

<p>Other students from the first period who found the final gave it away. These were my friends. I want to clear this up with my teacher who is still accusing me of cheating. It goes on my transcript though. I don’t know what to do.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.kent.k12.oh.us/~ke_bmccombs/apstatsl/Exam%20review/2008%20released%20exam.PDF[/url]”>http://www.kent.k12.oh.us/~ke_bmccombs/apstatsl/Exam%20review/2008%20released%20exam.PDF&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>LOL it still comes up.</p>

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<p>i’m fairly certain you can go on collegeboard’s website and take the previous year’s exams. I would consider what you did not cheating and your stat teacher a tube-nosed fruit bat…and whoever asked for the answers a ****</p>

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<p>Hmmm. It really depends on a couple of things.</p>

<p>Does your school have an Honor Code? What does it say? Does your school have a written policy on cheating? What does it say?</p>

<p>Our old Honor Code at my school included the terms “I will not cheat nor tolerate those that do.” Under that policy, you would have, in fact, cheated. </p>

<p>However, we changed our Honor Code at the beginning of this year to say “I will not cheat and will encourage others to do the same”. We felt the above was too harsh on students. Under this policy, you would have not cheated.</p>

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<p>You didn’t cheat. This happened at my school; our english midterm last year was literally just one of the AP Lang review books’ practice tests (5 Steps to a 5, I think). A bunch of people had been using that book and therefore had already seen in-depth answers to every question. Not cheating, just a great stroke of luck for them.</p>

<p>Also it’d be really unfair for them to say that you’re obligated to report everything that you hear or see.</p>

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<p>It isn’t against last year’s honor code, but contradicts this years.</p>

<p>Should I talk to my (stupid) stats teacher?</p>

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<p>I would talk to the teacher, and if she isn’t sympathetic, go to the vice principal or principal. Since you got a 5, I can assume you’re one of the top students at the school, or at least pretty smart. Vice principals/principals are usually pretty happy to help good students.</p>

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<p>On any other forum this would be about a relationship lol… gotta love CC (semi-sarcasm)</p>

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<p>^LOLOL</p>

<p>Principal & Vice hate me too. Senator Burr came to our Env. Science classroom and I bombarded him questions and called him out every time he used a BS answer.</p>

<p>APES Teacher (Democrat) = Loves me (going to get recommendation obviously now) haha</p>

<p>Principal (Repub.) = Loathes me and recognized me in his office (downright kiss@SS to Burr)</p>

<p>Vice (Repub.) = Same as above^</p>

<p>God, I’m such a misfit. Can’t wait to go to college.</p>

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<p>Consider yourself lucky, OP. You actually did cheat, but only got in trouble for ATTEMPTING to. And that’s pretty dumb of you to get 99/100% on the test. You should have purposely missed some questions and made it look “realistic”.</p>

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<p>Explain how I attempted to cheat. You probably didn’t read the post properly.</p>

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Oh?</p>

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<p>^After I had taken the final. Regardless, I did not open the attachments.</p>

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<p>The way I see it, you shouldn’t get in trouble because you didn’t actually distribute anything to anyone. The CollegeBoard should get in trouble for stealing this teacher’s test and putting it on the internet for multiple years in a row.</p>

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<p>^ hahaha</p>

<p>You have finals for an AP class? At my school there are no finals for AP classes.</p>

<p>No, I believe you did not cheat. The practice test is made public so that teacher and students can study from them (obviously). Explain to your teacher that you are innocent. As for your friends, that’s a DIFFICULT choice…</p>