My friend cheated on his ACTs and his score is going to jump alot.

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<p>My friend, Jake, just took the June ACT yesterday and he called me and told me he cheated the entire test off of some kid who received a 34 on his first ACT. Jake got a 21 on his first test and now he is probably going to get a 30-35 on this ACT. He told me he changed around a few of the answers, but ACT is most likely going to flag his score and investigate. What will happen? Will he just have to provide some proof he studied or had tutoring, or just any other alibi? Please respond. Thanks.</p>

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<p>Strange that you included his name. . . Is “Jake” an alibi for Mark?</p>

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<p>Dear jake/mark, you reap what you sow. I would wish you good luck, but cheating is never worth it.</p>

<p>I knew two kids who cheated on the SATs in the old days, before computers. One guy just used the other’s ID. They were caught the same way, when one of their test scores jumped improbably high and they were known to be good friends (who looked an awful lot alike). They were both expelled from school and Life wasn’t so great after that. I don’t think a few hundred points was worth it. Many perfectly good schools will take a lower test score. But a cheater has much bigger problems.</p>

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<p>No.Obviously Jake is not his name, Im not gonna say his name, just answer the question.</p>

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<p>My answer is that you should be sweating, big time.</p>

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<p>Yes they will most likely flag “Jake’s” score. Oh well- he shouldn’t have cheated. Funny how “Jake” thought about the possibility of his score being flagged after he cheated.</p>

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<p>Can someone tell me what the process will be like if they flag his score?!</p>

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<p>The score won’t be used. ACT, if you can provide proof, will allow a retake in a specific location of their choice. You’ll mostly take it alone or with so few people. If you score lower than before then you might get in trouble. This how the SAT does it, so ACT will be similar. So basically, whoever cheated mostly likely wasted their time</p>

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<p>L0l you’rr screwed</p>

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<p>yeah if the ACT sees a jump of more than 4 in one test to the next, they look into it and hold the right to make you retest. If you score within 3 points of the ‘suspicious’ test they let you keep it.</p>

<p>on the bright side, ACT is very gentle when it comes to cheaters and I don’t think colleges even see it if they invalidate his score</p>

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<p>Seems legit</p>

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<p>if you know what i meannn</p>

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<p>If you actually mean a friend, and not yourself, you can report it to this website:</p>

<p><a href=“Governance, Risk & Compliance Software | NAVEX”>Governance, Risk & Compliance Software | NAVEX;

<p>You can report anonymously, so your friend will have no way of knowing it was you. If, however, we are talking about you who cheated, the honest thing would be to turn yourself in.</p>

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<p>They’ll just refuse to release the score without a validating score earned upon a retake. But since the testing agencies are wimps (and really can’t prove cheating), nothing much more will happen if he refuses the retake.</p>

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<p>It’s doubtful that such a person would brag about it. Good cheaters are well known for discretion (when it benefits them).</p>

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<p>Don’t they hand out different versions of the test to surrounding people? So if he just copied neighbor’s answer sheet, it was probably different question order? In which case he likely did worse than his original score.</p>

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<p>If the score doesn’t hurt, the guilt will. It appears to be doing so right now actually. </p>

<p>Honestly, no one will care if you cheated or not except you. So if you think you can handle the guilt, do so; if not, don’t let it sink in too much before it’s too late.</p>

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<p>If it is a friend, you should definitely report it because as you know, the ACT is on a bell curve and it can only hurt you. But, if it is actually you we are talking about, the ACT will likely start an investigation, and not release your scores until you can prove that you would score in the same range in more controlled conditions (a retest) and then they will release that score. The ACT does not typically demarcate that an investigation was launched, so colleges likely won’t know. Just remember that cheating is bad for everyone because the kid that you/he cheated off of will also likely have to take a retest.</p>

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<p>The way you worded your post - and your post count - makes me think that it was you who cheated. And by the looks of it, it’s not sitting well with you. You know what you should do.</p>

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<p>I agree with, hope1212. I am of the belief that if you’re smart enough to devise a way of getting away with cheating then I have no problem with you cheating, especially since you probably could do very well if you spent your time studying rather than cheating. At the end of the day it really comes down to a moral thing, so if you can live with yourself then by all means go ahead, but if you can’t then don’t or do the right and honourable thing afterwards.</p>