<p>Stats is easy anyways.</p>
<p>Lol, if that is cheating then everyone has done it once in their life. If you were told they were going to be from an old test and use reasoning to figure it out then you should get extra credit for being smart enough to realize which test it was and remembering all the answers you had to.</p>
<p>A VERY similar situation happened this year in the AP Chemistry class where someone found the exam online and the teacher became aware of this. The teacher became aware of this and there was a Facebook thread in which several students stated their intention to use the information to their advantage. </p>
<p>Ultimately, they were not officially punished. The class was really tight knit and the teacher is one of those teachers that develops a personal relationship with a lot of students. Many kids went to personally apologize to her, and I know they all felt really bad. In this case, disappointing the teacher was enough punishment. </p>
<p>Whether or not they should have been punished on the record is a tough question and would depend on the wording in the Code of Conduct. I lean towards saying that they did cheat, because they made a conscious decision to use the information as an unfair advantage. But those students would have a strong defense because the internet is public information. Their argument would be strengthened by the fact that teachers preach this fact to students.</p>
<p>I’m ridiculously anti-cheating but this doesn’t sound like it at all. You didn’t sneak into his desk and steal the test; the past multiple choice questions are up there for anybody to legally look at and study from. Plus, you didn’t even just memorize the letters, you genuinely took the time to learn WHICH answer is correct- sounds like studying to me!</p>
<p>I wouldn’t exactly wave it in the teacher’s face that you did it, but not because you did anything wrong.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t call it cheating.</p>
<p>I was under the impression (misread, sorry!) you memorized the answer pattern, which would show blatant disingenuousness, but if you just used it as a guide with which to familiarize yourself with AP material and since it was readily available to everyone, you didn’t cheat. my bad haha</p>
<p>I wouldn’t have done it. It was a pretty clever thing to do though, and I doubt you’ll get in trouble.</p>
<p>This happened in AP Chem last year and the teacher made the kid retake the exam.</p>
<p>It’s called being intelligent.</p>
<p>@thiscouldbeheavn
He didnt look at the answers in the middle of the test. He memorized them.
And no, it’s not cheating</p>
<p>And if an administrator asks, OP, just vaguely tell the truth by saying you studied past versions of the test so you knew the format, and some of the questions ended up being similar. All of which is true.</p>
<p>No, you were honestly given all the information necessary to deduce the test questions.</p>
<p>This issue wouldn’t even have come up if the AP stat folks had bothered to come up with new questions each year rather than recycle old tests that were ONLINE. Let me put it this way: if a teacher gives you a study guide for a test (complete with solved problems) in class and then the next day asks test questions right off that study guide is that considered cheating if you did well? </p>
<p>Please. I’d call it gaming the test. If it’s “out there” LEGALLY and you get your hands on it to study from, then the onus is on the test givers to work out the bugs in their system of testing.</p>
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<p>in the middle of the test…</p>
<p>It’s not like he took the older test in there with him and copied the answers over. He just studied in between the first day of testing and the second. If there’s no rule against studying, how did he cheat?</p>