<p>-Either math or Critical Reading and the clock stops. You're on that last question or two and you really want to answer them. So you memorize the questions and the answer choices(that you narrowed it down to) and work on it when you have time. Or when your instructor says to turn to whatever page, you take your time to get to that page and go through many and get to the page with the question on it and take a brief glance at it or if they're not looking, take a look back at the question really quickly. </p>
<p>*I wouldn't feel bad if I did and I know it defeats the purpose of standardized testing but I mean it's not like cheating where you look at someone's answers or bring in outside information. Just the fact that other people do it doeskind of make it tempting. *</p>
<p>from a purely selfish standpoint, there is a decent chance that you'll get caught. surely one or two questions isn't worth a cancellation of your score?</p>
<p>from a more philosophical point of view, the goal of standardised testing is to determine who the most worthy students are. if, through any means, you seek an artificial advantage over other test takers (I would include test preparation in this category, but that's another debate entirely), you obstruct the pursuit of this goal.</p>
<p>The argument that other people do it is irrelevant. in using this argument, you just become another justification for someone else to do it, and he, for another to do so. this idea simply perpetuates cheating, it does not rectify the unbalanced field.</p>
<p>Granted, I don't see how an instructor is going to know if I bubbled in something on the middle of the page and whether he knows I'm supposed to be working on the bottom, those are just too specific. I'm not talking about blatantly looking at another page, but just natural ones. Take this into consideration:</p>
<p>You have a reasoning math question down to two or three choices; it doesn't require a diagram and you have memorized the choices/question. If you don't have to write anything down, figure it out in your head and know the answer, would you bubble the answer in(looking to see if no one is looking, even if they were, they couldn't tell)?</p>
<p>I always follow the rules with these tests (SAT/ACT). Not necessarily because I'm a "good person" or something, but because I'm always stuck with these really strict proctors that like to walk around and gaze at everyone's papers. So after a while, I just figured might as well stick with the rules.</p>
<p>Not like time's a big issue on the SAT anyway.</p>
<p>I was in the same situation and accidentally wrote a few math things on the CR section. Now, I am still waiting on my scores and might have to go standby on Dec 1. Trust me, its not worth it.... and the feeling later that you get, even if you didn't get caught, feeling of guilt, shame... too much for 10 points.</p>
<p>Iin77 is just.. ugh. I've seen a lot of his posts, apparently his stats are very good, but he's also really arrogant. If he reads this post:</p>
<p>Remember there are people who are scoring a lot better than you, and people who are scoring a lot worse. Don't let a strong sat or whatever get to your head, and think before you type/speak. There's no need to be offensive and call people 'stupid'. Those people are probably a lot smarter than you in other ways.</p>
<p>Well, I was sitting next to a girl who kept writing on her essay even when we were on the other sections. The teacher who gave the test was a complete airhead and didn't notice even when the girl was just 4 seats away from her.</p>
<p>The pages have section numbers on the top for a reason: to remind you to work on just the one section during its time limit, and to help the proctor detect who is working on the wrong section. If the proctors are doing their job right (yeah, I know, that doesn't always happen), no one is permitted to write on the answer sheets, memorized answers or not, except when it's each section's time for recording answers. </p>
<p>I wouldn't break the rules because of my own personal integrity. I also finish SAT sections with extra time, and always had extra time on the standardized tests I took as a kid.</p>