<p>It says more about your character than how you would have done on your own on the test.</p>
<p>Fair enough, but I am dealing with the moral repercussions on my own time in my own way. The main point of me posting this here is to figure out the chances that I am caught. I understand that the morality of what I did is more important, and I am handling it, but don’t criticize me for being concerned about being caught. I feel bad about what I did, and I am taking care of the character issues involved, but I also am very concerned about the being caught aspect. Consider this: I have the same score as someone else, same score in each section, same questions wrong, same answers to those wrong question, I am in the same class as this person, and this year’s score is better than my score from last year (200). Does the PSAT scoring computer check for irregularities such as these? I feel as though if the PSAT does not cancel my score then my school will not question its validity.</p>
<p>your so stupid for thinking the psat is that important, the SAT is so much more important, I hope you confess to cheating and then get expelled.</p>
<p>Wow just shut the hell up and stop trying to get attention… I hope you get a damn 199…
Enough of this “im smart enough.”</p>
<p>geez this is stupid can we end this and really maddyf u really are just whining about getting caught, its not that big of a deal</p>
<p>just don’t confess and completely forget about it…not that hard.</p>
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<p>this is a 2008 article (downloaded version) in the LA times about cheating on the SAT and ACT.
Major points
- 2000 instances out ot 3 million tests a year are possible cheating scenerios.
- Most instances are reported by staff or other students.
- If they think you cheat they cancel your scores.
- They do not tell colleges why your scores are cancelled.
- Since colleges get so few apps with cancelled scores they may ask you why your scores were cancelled to see if you will admit to cheating. They do not know if you cheated or if your school cancelled scores becauseof another reason.
- One study show 60% of those who took the test the year before admitted cheating in some way on the test. WOW.</p>
<p>If link does not work I googled how does SAT test check for cheating. Look for LA times article.</p>
<p>you should have just believed in yourself. if you have a 4.0 I guess you must be somewhat competent and you probably would’ve done well on the PSAT anyway.</p>
<p>is 216 national merit in ohio</p>
<p>… There is a good chance that you absolutely failed the PSAT, unless the forms of your PSAT were the same. The questions are in a different order on different forms of PSAT handed out per class, (Form A B C, etc) so if you just copied the bubbles without regarding the type of tests you both had, hmmmmm.</p>
<p>This thread is a bit surreal to read, as I happen to know someone who often goes by Maddy, has the last initial F, and loves UVA. However, that Maddy F. (if I remember correctly) has a different birthday than that listed in maddyf’s profile, and (again, if I remember correctly) was sitting in the front row during PSAT testing. [Edit - I’ve been thinking about this more, and I think Maddy F. may have actually been in the second row, leaving open the possibility described in post 18. This makes this thread even more disconcerting.]</p>
<p>This creates three worrying possibilites:
1)I’m misremembering Maddy F.'s birthday and seating location, or maddyf realized the possible consequences of revealing all of this with a username derived from maddyf’s actual name and changed those details, and this is, in fact, the Maddy F. I know- meaning I need to figure what I’m going to do about knowing who maddyf is, and what maddyf did</p>
<p>2)maddyf realized the problems of revealing this with a username derived from maddyf’s actual name, and so used a username derived from the name of an acquaintance, the Maddy F. I know, and provided actual information about maddyf’s position in the testing location not continuing the disguise further than the username - meaining that I need to leave open the fairly good possibility that it was not the Maddy F. I know, but someone else, that I still need to figure out what to do about, as there’s a good chance that that person, knowing the same Maddy F. I do, goes to the same school I do, and is probably someone I know as well.</p>
<p>3)It’s all a coincidence, and maddyf is in no way associated with the Maddy F. I know - meaning I don’t have to do anything except rule out the other possibilities, and that there are two people of approximately the same age with the name Maddy F. with similar interests in schools</p>
<p>
According to [this</a> post/thread,](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1063359519-post1169.html]this”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1063359519-post1169.html) yes, and with a few points to spare.</p>
<p>OH WORD YOU ROTTEN CHEATER.
This thread is hilarious. Props to MPD16 for cracking me up</p>
<p>I’ve thought about it, but I realized if I didn’t have the scores then I don’t have the scores… I would confess plain and simple. Maybe the kid with the highest score wasn’t enough to qualify for NMS?</p>
<p>lol youre not gonna get caught</p>
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<p>Around 145 ish is where it gets into cheating detection on the PSAT/SAT. ETS is the organization that “grades” the PSAT’s, and they have several mathematical ways of cheating detection including significant increase (my score is likely to very significantly increase), and same answers on the questions answered wrongly (which is certain to happen). I think I’m pretty screwed this is pretty scary stuff.</p>
<p>well let’s hope ktk is right, and the test you copied off of had the questions in a different order. Not only will you have to live with the guilt and anguish of what you did, but you will have bombed the test, too. Poetic justice. Hope you learned your lesson and won’t do this for the SATs.</p>
<p>Alright dude. Calm down. No, the different form thing is just for the SAT, not the PSAT. The person he copied off would have had the same test. They aren’t going to catch you (its the PSAT; they don’t care). Had you tried this on the SAT, you would have gotten caught though. Just calm down dude. Nothings gonna happen, and very likely, you got a high score. Chill dude and don’t do it again.</p>
<p>dude dont fret about it. btw dont confess either or else you’ll be even more screwed than before</p>
<p>First of all, do not let yourself profit from your cheating. If you become a NMSF, do not send in the materials to become a finalist. Don’t mention it on your college applications. The fact that you are smart enough to have done it yourself doesn’t cut it here. If you want to walk away from the negative consequences of cheating, you have to make yourself walk away from the positive consequences as well. And it it truly unfair to your fellow students who took the test fairly and did not score highly enough to become NMF for you to have a NM designation that might give your application a slight edge over theirs either for admission or for merit aid. </p>
<p>Are you prepared to do this?</p>
<p>CONFESS, do it</p>