<p>My understanding is that there would have to be suspicion of more than just one student cheating in order for all the scores in that session to be cancelled. I would anticipate a possible delay in the scores while an investigation is done, but I’d be surprised if anyone other than the cheater’s score is cancelled. You did the right thing.</p>
<p>snitch…</p>
<p>Same dilemma here.
I saw one cheating in my test center, as well. Ms. Cheater who I personally know, checked the unanswered pages the last minute and filled out the unanswered parts, going over and checking the other pages and was luckily unnoticed by the proctors who were busy collecting the test books and the answer sheets… The one sat in front of her also saw her cheating lol. Should I report her or not, i’m not sure… is it already too late to report? I really don’t want my score to be cancelled though</p>
<p>How would TCB even prove that they cheated? Surely two students testifying can’t invalidate a suspect’s scores. I wouldn’t report a student, but that’s just me. If a student wants to cheat, then they can deal with knowing that they got where they got by cheating. </p>
<p>Cheating is not good at all, but honestly, it might have done you more harm than good. Just let the cheater cheat. It sounds terrible but im only saying that because your own score has the chance to be cancelled too. Besides, his guilty conscience will catch up with him. </p>
<p>You created another problem by reporting him. One that’ll affect everyone including others in the room that weren’t involved. Honestly, if he was just cheating, but didn’t gloat or snicker, you shouldn’t have cared one bit. Cheaters gonna cheat. Since he bragged, I understand you might have been annoyed. Anyone would. But you still shouldn’t have cared. It was his life, not yours. His cheating on the SAT wouldn’t affect you in the slightest. Why create problems for other people? And he didn’t copy answers. Just went back. If he didn’t study anyway, what benefit would he have gotten from going back? You should have let it go. But most likely, I don’t think they’ll delay the scores. Just one kid right? It’s not too serious. For your sake, I hope they don’t. Does the dude know he was reported, by the way? 
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<p>So if your score gets cancelled, you basically wasted $50 and 4 hours on a Saturday. If it doesn’t, then you gain absolutely nothing. Personally, any ethical justification is blown out of the water by the potential repercussions.</p>
<p>CB can go back and look at his/her answer sheet. If he quickly filled in the entire section with one letter, then it’s fairly obvious something is amiss.<br>
@AGDC18, the first time he did it I was going to let it go. The problem is that the second time he did so, the proctor was in the back of the room reading a book. He turned around three times (he was in the very front) to make sure she wasn’t watching and others started laughing/staring/getting annoyed. He was no longer just cheating, but disrupting the test room. By the way, he does not know who reported him. I do not go to his school and he will never see me again. He has no way of knowing who turned him in, although since the entire class saw him he’s going to have a pretty hard time singling one person out.<br>
If I had known my scores would be delayed/possibly cancelled, would I have changed my decision? Probably not. I highly doubt the entire class was cheating, so CB is most likely not going to cancel everybody’s scores. As far as I know, the only time they did so was when students were using fake ID’s and testing for others.<br>
I am not the bad guy here. He was cheating, he decided to take the risk that he would be caught. This is his fault, not mine. Everybody else played by the rules, but he decided not to and he should pay the consequences. Even if nothing happens, he can at least have the decency to cheat discretely next time and not announce to the entire class that he’s doing it. </p>
<p>@conficollege You do what you think is right. It’s not too late to report someone, and you can do it anonymously by calling SAT. Their website has more information about it.<br>
I have to warn you, your scores may be delayed. I don’t think they will be cancelled unless they find a reason to suspect you as well (doubtful). Should this stop you? No. </p>
<p>As you can see by most of the comments on here, many would rather protect their own scores and let cheating go. But this isn’t about you or your own interests, is it? This is about protecting the integrity of the test. The only people that can do so are the test takers themselves. It’s your decision, and it is a tough one. I hope you do the right thing 
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<p>It is a standardized test, you must love the SAT to want to take it again. I find the ACT and SAT to be stupid, and I did well on the ACT so there is no bias. To me, if his cheating has no effect on me, let it be. Stop trying to bring ethics into everything. It is a stupid test, I don’t care whether the “integrity” is protected or not. Honestly, listen to yourselves. By reporting him, you just put yourself at risk, remember this is your future, this test may have been THE test that separates your dream of going to the ivies vs. your favourite school. And you blew it.</p>
<p>@PaulPierce34 I have taken the SAT and ACT and I’ve done well on both. The only reason I was taking the SAT again was for scholarship purposes. The whole “it doesn’t affect me so I’m going to let it go” argument is ridiculous.<br>
That’s like seeing somebody steal a brand new BMW and then saying “Oh that’s not mine, and since it doesn’t affect me, I’m not going to call the police. Give the thief a break, he’ll pay for it later. I’m not just going to ruin his life by having him put through a trial and possibly sent to jail.”
And ethics is in everything, isn’t it? That’s why we have a legal system, and that is why there are rules in place to stop this. If CB didn’t “care whether the “integrity” is protected” as you so eloquently put it, then there wouldn’t be a point in testing, would there? Guess the Ivy Leagues would have to take everybody’s scores with a grain of salt. </p>
<p>CB can go back and look at his/her answer sheet. If he quickly filled in the entire section with one letter, then it’s fairly obvious something is amiss.</p>
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<p>If he quickly filled in the entire section with one letter, then he did NOT benefit himself. His score did not go up. Regardless, how does TCB assume that the random answering was cheating? Could he not have simply realized his time was running low and quickly filled in the section? </p>
<p>My kids and I had a long talk about this dilemma last night. All of us agree that no one should cheat. And that you are right and he is wrong. BUT…but…there’s more at stake here that you be willing to have your SAT invalidated because at least you did the right thing. In a worst case scenario, everyone in that room will have their scores invalidated…and some of these will be kids who are on their last chance before EA and ED deadlines…meaning there are no 2nd chances for them</p>
<p>It’d be a good question for the Ethicist at the Times…is doing the right thing the right thing to do if it pulls in a group of bystanders…</p>
<p>It seems to me that if CB invalidates all the scores because of one person cheating, that is on them, not the person that does the right thing by reporting it. Which is why I highly doubt they would in fact invalidate all the other scores. Especially since the nature of this particular report wouldn’t involve anyone else getting a benefit to their score. So I think all this talk about CB invalidating everyone’s test is purely hypothetical with no particular basis in reality or fact.</p>
<p>All those insisting that the cheater’s actions have no effect on the OP’s scores are incorrect.</p>
<p>While the cheater cannot change another student’s raw score, those raw scores are ultimately converted into the final scaled score between 200 and 800 according to a bell curve. If some students are allowed to cheat, and if the cheaters prosper sufficiently to increase the average raw score, that shifts the bell curve and directly impacts the scaled score that non-cheaters receive.</p>
<p>OP, I commend you for making a difficult choice. </p>
<p>It’s difficult to answer your primary question - will your scores be cancelled? - because that is entirely in the College Board’s hands. However, cancelled or not, I believe you did the right thing. </p>
<p>Suppose a second student observed and reported the cheating to the proctor as well. Your corroboration of each other’s reports could be the difference between everyone’s scores being cancelled and only the cheater’s being cancelled. </p>
<p>If every student who witnessed it had reported the cheating, I don’t see how they could have any doubt.</p>
<p>Some have suggested here that you victimized other students by creating a situation in which their scores could be delayed or cancelled. If that is ultimately what happens, I place the blame with those who witnessed the incident and did not possess the courage to speak out. The more students there were who shared your courage, the less likely it would be that anyone but the cheater himself would have to be penalized.</p>
<p>You are a brave person, and I wish we had more like you.</p>
<p>@DreamSchlDropout the curve is predetermined, look at the ACT. If you take the test online, you will immediately get your score</p>
<p>@BedfordTiger look, those circumstances are different, someone robbing a car does not affect your future if you report him. However this does, you can argue all you want, but if your scores get invalidated, there is no justification, yes you were honest, but you put yourself in a tight situation, i dont really care whether your scores get cancelled or not, has no barring on me. That being said, i hope they don’t and wish you the best of luck!</p>
<p>and I said that I don’t care whether the integrity is protected, they should however, as more ppl are making the switch to ACT</p>
<p>@PaulPierce34 You are right, the car example doesn’t affect my future, but that’s why I used it. At this point, I’m not as worried about my future as I am about being honest. If my scores are invalidated, then so be it, but I really don’t think they will be cancelled. I can work with a delay, and if I have to then I will send an email to the ED college and explain my situation. Thank you, and if you are taking the SAT/ACT anytime soon then I wish you the best of luck as well!
In response to your last post, the only way any standardized testing company can protect their testing integrity is through the test-takers. If that doesn’t happen, then they really don’t have any way of maintaing it. I do agree with you though about the ACT, and to be honest I much prefer the ACT as well. </p>
<p>@Kyuutoryuu
You are actually wrong about his scores not affecting everyone else’s without reporting it. Every year there is a curve based on how well students do. If everyone does reasonably well, then there are fewer questions other people can get wrong to get a certain score.</p>
<p>Obviously, most tests are at the same level of difficulty, so you might think that one person’s test results makes no difference. But how do you know it won’t make a difference? Perhaps his score might be the difference between ETS deciding whether one question wrong is an 800 or a 790. </p>
<p>Since you did it anyway, it doesn’t matter if you posted this discussion or not; it happened.</p>