<p>I'd be willing to bet that everyone breaks at least one SAT rule. Even if it's one of the ones about discussing test questions, people break them. Honestly, what's the first thing everyone talks about when they get their first break during the test? "DUDE! What evidence did you use for the essay?" The essay you're not supposed to talk about for 3 weeks!</p>
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<p>I'd be willing to bet with you, if you put lots of money on the line.</p>
<p>Everyone one would do it if they could be SURE that they didnt get caught. People can argue all they want about morals and ethics, but everyone knows that without anyone to stop them they would cheat. Its all about risk factor. Some people are more willing to take risks, some arent. Without risk, we would have a society full of vice (not that we dont already) To ask a question, if you had a teacher that really liked you as a person, and thought you were a "good kid", and upgraded you because of it, would you refuse to accept the grade, or accept it happily? No risk,(and not usually considered amoral) but you are still taking advantage of a situation, that others did, or may not have had</p>
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<p>That is a lie. I know people with more integrity than that.</p>
<p>yeah i agree with tokenadult. there are definitely a lot of kids who would take advantage of a lazy proctor or whatever, but not EVERYONE.</p>
<p>if i cheated, i dont think i could be as proud of my sat scores. i would rather get a 700 or whatever by myself, than get a 720 cheating.</p>
<p>The difference between a 720 and a 700 can sometimes decide college applications: for CR, 5% get above a 700. The higher you go, the more you separate yourself. I can't cheat on CR and won't, but personally if I was faced with the decision of cheating on one question to increase my score 20-30 points , I would do it because I could get by the shame and guilt. Still, I don't plan on cheating at all but if I was faced with 30 free points, I'd take it because to me, 30 more points on a CR section doesn't necessarily say that one person will do better in college, but to colleges, the SAT is the only standard to set people apart.</p>
<p>I think at one time or another all people cheat at certain things.</p>
<p>I don't cheat on anything. Why bother.</p>
<p>I've never cheated on the test, unless you count tidying up the bubbles (erasing stray marks, etc.) after the last section is called cheating.</p>
<p>i look back into previous sections sometimes. some people's strategy is to bring a pocket dictionary, like those electronic merriam webster and iPod Touch<<my friend used his Touch; he has a dictionary and EDGE, so he was reading some of the comments here</p>
<p>im dont feel guilty do admit that i went back and added 3 words to my essay and i filled in the last question to a math section. in reality it was a total of 30 seconds over the limit, and it was my own ability - i knew how to answer the question it just didnt come to me straight away. friends of mine who were discussing answers in the break raised their score by pointing out each others errors... one particularly dumb kid raised his score 200 points - now this i believe is unfair. another person got some vocab off a friend and brought his CR up to 800. however is very intelligent and wouldve gotten a 780 without it. Im a slow worker but i get decent scores, if i need an extra 15 seconds does that make me stupid or immoral?</p>
<p>makes u a cheater. we all could use more time but don't</p>
<p>yeah, thats cheating.</p>
<p>You're lucky to have that sort of group that are both smart and willing to cheat. I don't think you can just ask random people that you don't know if you want to discuss answers. I can easily imagine two brothers doing this and their mother encouraging them to "cheat" by discussing answers. I don't want to encourage it, but to anyone, it's always tempting to get answers in the wrong way. You might not do it, but you think that it would really benefit you and you think of the good feeling you would get of getting it right. Still, I don't see any of this happening.</p>
<p>I used a mechanical pencil during the essay... my soul will forever rot.</p>
<p>Would you take 100 points on the SAT if for some reason a (hypothetical) voice in your head tells you he will give it to you. If the answer is yes, then according to most of the "perfect" people in this blog, you would all be cheating. I know its far fetched, but everyone would say ok, give me those 100 points imaginary voice.</p>
<p>Haha... wow, I completely forgot until reading this thread, but I definitely went back and changed a math answer on my SAT -- I realized that I'd subtracted 80 instead of 30 (randomly) while idly checking over my answers in the last five seconds of the section. So I actually physically went back and changed the answer, as it was a write-in. </p>
<p>I think that I also went back and further colored/erased bubbles for an answer that I decided to change in the last two seconds of a CR section. I think I got it wrong, though, so there's karma for ya. ;]</p>
<p>I feel a little guilty now that I think of it -- I'm the type of person who would never DREAM of cheating on a test in school, because I believe that everything should be completed through individual ability and merit. But when it's something like realizing that you did some arithmetic wrong and correcting it in the next few seconds of the next section... I think that I would have regretted not changing it, as it wouldn't have been a true reflection of my ability.</p>
<p>e: Two of the most high-achieving students in my grade discussed PSAT answers during their break and went back and changed answers. I also know two people who cheated on an AP test last year by writing answers on tissues (supposedly), and one of my friends went back and changed one after discussing it during the break because she "KNEW it was either 'a' or 'c' and switched it back and forth 20 times!!" I had also gone back and forth between the two answers and ended up on the wrong one, but as I had ultimately chosen the incorrect one, I didn't see why I should be entitled to that point. Those are the types of things that I would <em>NEVER</em> do -- complete something using the ability of someone else instead of my own.</p>
<p>I don't consider working on other sections cheating. I've gone back and finished unfinished questions in other sections before. One time I completely forgot it even was against the rules. My proctors always sit in the very back corner of the room away from all of the desks. I guess I have no conscience. :D</p>
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<p>That's the definition of cheating on the SAT. Anyway, if I were really insecure over a past section and were confident on the answers on the section I am working on, I'd probably break the rules. That's just a contingency plan; so while I actually didn't do it, I probably would have in the real situation.</p>
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<p>I know, I'm saying I don't consider it cheating.</p>