<p>Argh! How frustrating. Who knows if they'll review all 80 pages of your booklet. Did you erase it at all?</p>
<p>2-4 weeks investigation is crap b/c you need those scores to apply.</p>
<p>If they do cancel your scores, hopefully you'll have the confidence (from the score increase) and the knowledge from your lesson (getting caught cheating, even if it's only one problem) to perform highly.</p>
<p>If they give you results soon, they'll arrange testing for you and will (or so I've heard) prioritize your scores (not reporting though).</p>
<p>Why do you need 2-4 weeks to investigate? Are we running low on staff or do they just like to screw over students! </p>
<p>I definitely did learn my lesson, as the feeling of guilt can drive you nuts</p>
<p>I asked her off I took it in 7th grade and then in 12th grade, if there was a big increase, would they check it,... she said yes. This is totally ridiculous. Its not my fault there are people out there that will pay for someone to take their test. I have not done something so grave. So, do colleges usually understand these kinds of issues?</p>
<p>Also, when they investigate, they look for 2 main things, one: inconsistent handwriting between two sittings, and second: similar answers sheets as those sitting around you. So hopefully I will clear. Is there anything else I can do, to make them go quicker, I mean, 2-4 weeks right around regular application time. <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>I think the most important thing you can do right now is to call your schools, apprise them of the situation, and see whether they will be flexible if your scores are a little late. I expect that they will as long as everything else is in and you tell them about the circumstances. They'll still be sorting mail for the first few days of January, after all.</p>
<p>Even if the worst happens and by some freak circumstance your score is cancelled, you should still get a chance to retake within a few days. So I think a 6-week delay would be a reasonable worst case scenario: say your test is randomly thrown out, the College Board is randomly a week late getting back to you, and then it takes a week to schedule a retest. Even in that case your scores would reach your schools in mid-January, while they are just beginning to make decisions. So I don't think this situation is going to affect your college chances.</p>
<p>Once you get those phone calls made, you should feel a lot better, I think.</p>
<p>I was going to advise you to retake this Sat. just to relax about it, but I guess there's hardly any point, because that score would probably also get flagged. So all you need to do is get in touch with all your colleges.</p>
<p>That's stupid. How would they know what scores you got in 7th grade to compare? Don't those get erased off your record? And what if your handwriting CHANGES from middle school to high school graduation?</p>
<p>I'm sorry for hijacking the thread, but I took the SAT in 7th and 8th grades and am looking for a substantial increase in high school... AND my handwriting has become much narrower and more flowery...</p>
<p>They do take your SAT off of score reports if you take it 8th grade or earlier, unless you specifically call and ask them to keep the scores on.</p>
<p>I doubt that they keep the grades on record that long, very few of us would have been able to take the "new" SAT I in 2005 during 8th grade. You can't compare the scores. Or the handwriting (great example, mine changed a lot).</p>
<p>The only logical point of reference they have if you didn't take an SAT I already is the PSAT, and they'd have your statement + signature on that.</p>
<p>Not that I like to cheat, but next time you should
1. Do it in your head if possible, and just write a few #s and not a ton of equations.
2. Erase it, or write very lightly so that it can go away.
3. Do some work on your answer sheet. They always say they don't care about what you write on the answer sheet and they can't assume that you did the work on the answer sheet while a CR section.</p>
<p>I'm curious to know if they also look into substantial increases from PSAT scores to SAT scores. I mean like if you score WAY higher than your PSAT projected score ranges when you take your SAT will they look into that as well?</p>
<p>btw. my score report says I omitted 4 writing MCs when I know I didn't. It says 3 improving sentences were omitted and 1 other. Should I bother?</p>
<p>Well, I took the 1640 April 2006, and the 2240 this November.</p>
<p>I would have to say it is only because of practice. Most people don;t like to hear that, there's no secret to it, its just practice. Its like doing anything, playing an instrument, playing a sport, the more you do it the better.</p>
<p>Of course there are some particulars
I never, never used any other material for practice than from CollegeBoard. I only used CB tests and it came to a point where could cancel out 3/5 choices for CR just because I knew it was not a 'CB answer'. For math, I became more alert and cautious of what I was doing. For W, I just learned the rules and practiced. Now I know this all doesn't seem like enough of an answer on how I improved but sometimes, things are just simple.</p>
<p>I always had the mindset that I was training for a big day, and that on that day I would give my best performance. And I did.</p>
<p>Great job, akahmed. I knew you could do it. Although it sucks that you missed 1500/1600 by only 10 points. So, are you considering tutoring others soon?</p>
<p>I was pretty sure they weren't going to check your whole answer booklet in that much detail. Great scores!</p>
<p>As far as the essay writing goes, I never got above a 10 on the SAT, but I did get a 12 on the ACT. Quantity over quality, unless all of your examples really, really suck.</p>
<p>The SAT essay is easy enough to review with a proctor- get it online, print it up, share and discuss.</p>
<p>If you have a tutor, and you'd like to see your ACT essay, I'd ask your HS counselor to use ACT</a> Essay View to get an image and printout of your essay. One account per school, they punch in the info from your HS report, they have your essay, and they can share it with you (see the FAQs at the link). Not to mention that you could share it with us :)</p>
<p>My HS Counselor would probably let me see my essay again if she knew the login, the one who has Essay View wouldn't, but it varies on a school-by-school basis and they ARE allowed to go over the essays with you- the ACT site says so.</p>
<p>Both are very structured writings that emphasize obviousness over conciseness. Write decent examples in great detail that follows the rubric exactly.</p>