<p>Today, they just had us take our phones out, turn them off, and place them in a bucket at the front of the room. The phones came into the actual testing room but we didn’t have them from before the proctored started the whole script to after we turned in all materials.</p>
<p>On other similar tests I’ve taken at my school (ACT, SAT, SAT2, CST) they usually just tell you to turn it off and keep it out of sight.</p>
<p>What your school did seems a little extreme.</p>