<p>You chose to not follow the College Board’s rules, so you will have your score invalidated accordingly.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure he understands what he did was dumb. You guys can stop reminding him and actually contribute by giving him advice. I swear the collegeboard’s rule of electronics must have been mentioned fives times throughout this thread-It’s enough.</p>
<p>^ Well, then what is he doing here? Even if he didn’t cheat, and I’m sure he is innocent on that note, he still used his phone. His scores are getting canceled either way.</p>
<p>I don’t know what advice there is to give. The situation looks hopeless, since the rules were broken. Sorry to say it, but there is really no chance if you are caught using an electronic device. They are really strict about it. The same exact thing happened at my school last year. A kid sent a text during the break that was completely unrelated to the exam. They were discovered and their test was invalidated. Now the administration at my school is extremely strict and harsh about AP testing since an irregularity has been reported for our school.</p>
<p>it certainly not hopeless, its far from hopeless. The OP should try, as others on the forum suggested, to obtain a copy of the text(s) sent during that period and try to appeal Collegeboard’s decision. Yes, the OP did violate some terms Collegeboard set out, but he still has a case that can be pursued. And its certainly NOT hopeless</p>
<p>It is most definitely hopeless. Don’t fool yourself and the OP.</p>
<p>First of all, it was pretty stupid of you. </p>
<p>However, yeah, you definitely should appeal.</p>
<p>You’re an idiot; the CollegeBoard isn’t going to give a ****.</p>
<p>^ Thank you. Someone else has common sense besides me.</p>
<p>how did you even BRING the phone, you could have canceled ALL your school’s AP tests for that year!!!</p>
<p>I feel sympathy for the OP because he didn’t cheat. He doesn’t deserve to have his scores canceled over something so silly. And I agree with iamsocool’s post. </p>
<p>Good luck… I hate CB</p>
<p>@NewAccount</p>
<p>He was hoping, someone here would be able to direct him in the right direction. Enough people gave their opinions and it’s getting redundant. Everyone who posted AGREED it was stupid, so your not the only one with ‘common sense’. But if you would like to feel special, you are the only ******* in this thread. you get that award, buddy.</p>
<p>Sorry, but as most people are saying, there really is no chance of getting your scores uncancelled. They repeated several times that you are not supposed to use a electronic device anytime during the testing period which you did. If it wasn’t you that got in trouble, your proctor might have gotten in trouble for not following the rules. It does seem really unfair and I would be mad too if that happened to me but unfortunately, there is little hope. ):</p>
<p>In fact, someone in my testing room had been stupid enough to bring a cellphone and hide it when the proctor told everyone to turn their phones off and bring them to the front. She got a text in the middle of the test and her phone rang causing her scores to get cancelled. A whole year’s worth of work down the drain…</p>
<p>Well, looks like everything here has been said. Obtain a record of the texts and/or the actual messages, highlight the message in question and the times the previous message and message following the message in question were sent(they should be well outside the testing time), send it in with an appeal, you may even want to include a letter indicating the situation, if the test was starting late, or there had been irregularities in break times, etc. Send all that in with an appeal. Make it easy for collegeboard to empathize with you by making it easy for them to consider your appeal.
At the end of the day, don’t get your hopes too high. The proctor has to read the rules and you have to sign the portion indicating that you have read and abide by the rules and regulations spelled out by collegeboard in their info book. So really, all you can do is file an appeal and pray.
There’s a slim, and I’m talking SLIM (almost worse than winning the lottery) chance that they’ll let you retake the exam at a prorated charge next year, but as the retake date for the exam (I would assume) has passed, they would not let you retake it this year. There is even a slimmer chance that they will “uncancel”, as other posters have said, your scores, but that, I believe, has never been done (correct me if I am wrong?)
In short, consider yourself lucky that it is only one of your scores that is being cancelled, because there have been reports of collegeboard cancelling all of a student’s scores and banning them from future tests.
In the end, remember that AP tests really have no negative effects on your grade, unless you were hoping your teacher would bump your grade for a 3,4, or 5.
My deepest condolences for your misfortune and I hope you the best of luck, whatever course of action you choose to take.</p>
<p>Okay. Probably not going to get what you want, mainly because look at the can of worms CB opens if they say-no electronics, yet it’s okay to text mom. Okay to try. I got one. A girl at our school used a highlighter during the Lang test. The rules say to have only pens and pencils but don’t specifically address highlighters until you go deep into the bowels of the rule book. She didn’t do anything but annotate the passages. Ruling is TBD, but hmmm.</p>
<p>A lot of you are definitely lying in here if you say you didn’t bring your cellphone with you on the test day. I feel sorry for the OP, and although it is fault, the CB is going really hard. Especially since he is a senior…</p>
<p>This is a great thread, but there are a few inconsistencies here with the OP description.
- As another poster indicated, it is the Office of Testing Integrity at ETS, not the College Board, that would handle these cases.
- The process involves interviews, appeals and a review board. A decision would not be made and sent to the OP seven days after the test. It takes quite a few days just to process the incident report, once it is received from the school. Normally, the incident reports are sent back with the tests at the end of the testing period.
- If the option of retaking the exam is not offered (and in a case like this it would be), the student is refunded the fees.</p>
<p>So, I wonder about the veracity of this story. However, this is a fascinating thread!!</p>
<p>@BigWorldJust: I honestly cannot believe that anyone would be stupid enough to bring the phone into the testing room, and keep it on your person, and not take it out when the proctor says it 9000 times. So I think you are lying.</p>
<p>Guys, let’s not throw insults by saying “Oh it is common sense, you ■■■■■■! Why did you even bring a phone in the first place to show off? You deserved it!”.</p>
<p>It was a mistake, we all make them. To err is to human, remember? We all make that one mistake where we can’t even believe we did it, let’s not make this guy feel even worst, I mean not only did he get his score invalidated, he is going to carry the burden of everyone who took the exams with him. Damn, now that I reasoned it all out for him, it really must suck for him, especially he won’t be able to take anymore AP Exams.</p>
<p>OP, if you just read what I wrote, I might have made you feel worse. inb4tissueboxmeme</p>
<p>I don’t think the poster will be allowed to get hsi test scored,</p>