<p>I must say that satacer is making outrageously racist remarks generalizing an entire population, especially in a negative way. But, I must say that there is a “sizable portion” of people in Asian countries who do cheat. Why? Because of fierce competition. “Some” people want to leave the conditions of their country to study in the US and will take advantage of opportunties to cheat. So what he says does receive some credit. The difference, though, is I am looking at cold, hard facts from Asian people in my school who told me that they have heard of cases in certain Asian countries that do this. This CANNOT be generalized about the entire population though. And when I say “some” people, I mean that the other people (the majority) are probably extremely intelligent and assiduous and I credit them for that.</p>
<p>As was said before, cheating DOES happen a lot in some countries because of the competition. I once read a Korean kid’s blog who was ashamed of his fellow students who cheated on the SAT. He/she said that students were exchanging answers during breaks and changing them afterwards, or using their cell phones.</p>
<p>a chinese can get a 2400 without a calculator, they can predict the question forms, they have 4 examples to beat all the prompts of SAT,moreover, they are more industrious than americans. Don’t blame the system or the seemingly unfair circumstances, try to find the reason why you can not be perfect. Anyway, i think the chinese are really awesome</p>
<p>Reports of organized cheating have circulated for years. Despite a few stories corroborating accounts of individual or organized cheating in Asian countries, there has been little evidence of a rampant problem. One can easily assume that some people indeed have exploited the system with the help of outsiders, including the same people who were supposed to make sure the tests were given properly. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, some of the cheating occured because of the lax rules and “laziness” of ETS to offer different tests in different timezones. It was not too hard for people with enough resources and low moral fiber to exploit a system that is built on honor and honesty. And we all know that the definition of honor and honesty varies greatly among different cultures. </p>
<p>In the meantime, it remains that almost everyone who takes the SAT is doing it without any advantage, except for the one given by a solid preparation.</p>
<p><em>see the chinese gaokao</em>**</p>
<p>What about the folks up northeast who pay their doctors to say they have disabilities, so they can get more time.</p>
<p>Some things you just gotta keep to yourself and live with it.</p>
<p>I’m a Caucasian American living in a Lao-American household(inlaws).
I can safely say that they aren’t geniuses, but the pressure from parents is extreme. The (now adults) in this household forbid all TV except disovery, national geo, history like channels even when the children were toddlers. This “free time” was limited. Other than that the kids are forced to study and read high school/college level textbooks pretty much 24/7 until it’s solidly ingrained (sometimes word for word). </p>
<p>Without such direction would they have done as well? I highly doubt it. They are smart but only because of their (parents) dedication.</p>
<p>Xiggi: I respect your feedback and help us all enlighten about the enigma. My final point of wisdom would be, SAT is immune to malpractices. Most of you deserve what you got but some don’t. Let us all wish that don’t numbers not proliferate with time.</p>
<p>I know this is old. But I’m in mainland China. I took the SAT here. Without flying out to some other country. No one had memorized answers. People do well because they spend a ridiculous amount of time studying and not stereotyping. </p>
<p>And I’m not Asian.</p>
<p>Ok, first of all, how did “some asian countries” translate into china?
Secondly, I have taken SAT1 in Pakistan and can confirm that there is no cheating involved on the part of united states educational foundation (which administers the test).</p>
<p>However, 2 years back, someone found a way to ‘trick’ the system. What he did was that he payed a freshman (at a local reputed university) to take SAT on his behalf. His passport picture was rigged and thus the other person took SAT on his behalf. He scored 2200+ and got admitted to NYU.
Now the fun part. He had faked his transcript and sent it without the official seal of the high school; his predicted grades were 5a in A-levels, which is very difficult to get in one go. When his final and original A-level grades were sent (1a 2b 1c 1d), NYU contacted his school and asked for an explanation. The school promptly told NYU that no one had applied to NYU through them. NYU immediately expelled him and he was deported (arrived here in September 09’).</p>
<p>How do I know this?
He was my senior!</p>
<p>Now he has beeen blacklisted from all universities!!!</p>
<p>btw he got the picture rigged by ripping it off his passport and pasting the other person’s picture.</p>
<p>Since last year, all the passports have been computerized and no one can rigg now.</p>
<p>So chill everyone, asians do not cheat. This is the only case since the SAT started</p>
<p>Sorry, I was not implying at Asians = Chinese, that was just generally where the discussion was going.</p>
<p>Yeah, I agree there are certainly some cases of cheating - but that’s a global phenomena, not specific to one region or one race. To think otherwise is completely ignorant.</p>
<p>Um. Has anyone considered the possibility that you’re all being ■■■■■■■?
I somewhat doubt that someone would believe something this ridiculous.</p>