<p>Hi so I just took my SAT like an hour ago. While I was taking the test I finished my writing section early and went to number 18 on the last math section. I swear that all I was doing was checking my work on #18 because I was expecting a 100% in math and I wanted to make sure that I did get a 100%. THe proctor comes up to me and says I can finish my test but she will be filing a report.
Can you please give me any advice on what to do now? I am really really really freaking out :(</p>
<p>Well I’m pretty sure you’re not allowed to do that, so your test will most likely not count.</p>
<p>You can’t really do anything about it, what’s done is done. You can try to argue your point with the Collegeboard, but they aren’t normally very lenient. Especially now due to all of the scandals.</p>
<p>All you can do is hope that the report gets lost in the mail, that the proctor forgets or feels bad for you, or that Collegeboard doesn’t have enough evidence to throw out your test.</p>
<p>Evidence? What evidence will they get since all they can say is that the proctor told them that I was flipping through other pages…Also how will I know if my scores been cancelled? Will I just not get a score or something? </p>
<p>From my experience the only luck up to this point is on the type of proctor you have (my proctor was much less stringent with the timing than when I took the October SAT, but unlike the October proctor she actually got up and walked around to make sure we weren’t on other sections). I can imagine that after proctoring a 3 1/2 hour test the chance for human error is higher than normal. I hope you get your scores in!</p>
<p>You knowingly broke a rule designed to ensure fairness. You deserve to have your score tossed.</p>
<p>I don’t know if I’d say you deserve to get your score disqualified, but framing your argument as “well I’m EXPECTING an 800 and I just wanted to make sure that I did by essentially checking my work and potentially changing my answer after the fact” and then acting like you did nothing wrong makes it harder for people to sympathize with you because you come off as entitled and a little arrogant. I’m not saying you are, but it sort of comes off that way. </p>
<p>I’d say you have around a 75% chance of getting your scores disqualified (or canceled or whatever). As people above have said your justification doesn’t really matter. You disobeyed a rule designed to prevent cheating and the collegeboard is well within it’s rights to take whatever action they deem necessary. </p>
<p>My friend did this last year. Her scores were thrown out. Her parents tried to fight it, but it did not help. She took the SAT again and did great.</p>
<p>Yeah, it depends on how nice your proctor is (if they ended up filing the report). </p>
<p>Good luck. :/</p>
<p>They tell you numerous times not to go back to other sections, and you still do it? Missing one question on the math section is not worth getting your score cancelled. You’ll realize that fact when you end up redoing the test.</p>
<p>Making a note of this thread so that I can remind my D (not that she would do that but still). No sympathy here - they tell you well in advance and it even has the little stop sign with the word STOP in caps and with exclamation points trying to get you to stop from going back to a previous section.</p>