<p>On March 10, I took my 1st SAT and when the proctor says put your pen down, I thought I just have to stop bubbling the asnwer and so I still hold my pen!! However, during the break she gave me a warning about not putting my pen down...and I was like "W T H" !!! At the end, she said she's going to put my test as "cheating" b/c I didn't "put my pen down" and I argued with her how can that be define as "cheating".......and then she began to ask me do I believe correct and wrong!? "W T F".....and I was "P I S S" so I just left the testing center!!!! (as the result....my test score will not be count)</p>
<p>However!!! I am wondering........when I apply college, which I need them to send college about my subject test score.Do they include the record says "blah blah blah was cheating on blah blah day for SAT reasoning test" ???</p>
<p>AS A WHOLE!!! I WAS really depress about it !!! I'll NEVER TAKE SAT AGAIN!!!</p>
<p>i actually doubt that the proctor would do that in the first place, but i seriously doubt that this will go on your permanent record so I don't think it's going to say on the paper when you apply to college that "so and so cheated". I doubt that would happen.</p>
<p>Wow, dude, that is TOTALLY unfair. I don't think that this will go on your permanent record or anything, though. Just take the SAT at a different test cener.</p>
<p>The only thing the proctor can do is fill out a "testing irregularity" report, describing the situation. The test integrity people at ETS can then decide if any action is needed.</p>
<p>In your case, I doubt the proctor even filled out the report. If they did, it will be "filed" by ETS, as nothing really happened.</p>
<p>Students are never accused of cheating. They are told that there are irregularities in their score and that an explanation is needed. If the explanation is not satisfactory, the student is usually offered the option of either a refund or a free retake, with the official reason being that ETS was unable to assign a score to that paper.</p>
<p>Only if a student makes a big stink and ends up in court could they end up being accused of cheating as part of the trial.</p>
<p>Pay better attention next time. Even though you didn't cheat, the rules are in place for a reason. Nation-wide, the rules are the same, and there are places where hundreds of students take the test in the same room. If students don't put their pencils down, someone could much more easily reach down and erase something than he could pick up his pencil, mark something, and put it back before the proctor noticed. Putting pencils down makes it so much easier for the proctors, so do what the directions say.</p>
<p>That's a horrible experience. If it continues to bother you, were you my kid, I'd say go and see if you can phone the SAT people from the office of your Guidance Counselor, so s/he is witness to the conversation. If the GC agrees it's unfair (idk, i see Cape's point-of-view also, remembering that there are many people in the room, the stakes are high, a direction was stated and you didn't follow it). That made it harder for the proctor to do her task, which is to ensure that every person in that room had the exact same amoung of time to work. She can't see whether you're flicking the pencil across "one more time" with all those bodies to watch at once.
But I think she discussed the situation witih you most provocatively and baited you into an argument, by accusing you of cheating instead of saying what the process would be next. She wasn't following SAT protocols and challenged your integrity. You were upset enough to leave (flight/fright reaction) thereby throwing over all your study time and admission fee.
If the GC sees it more the second way than the first, perhaps you can phone or have the GC phoen to the SAT and ask for redress: an apology letter.
This is an experience you'll remember and I'm not sure you were treated with justice. Your call what to do.
If you're telling the story exactly, I (as a teacher) feel s/he acted to provoke you.
SOme people are just full of themselves.</p>
<p>Follow intructions exactly next time; realize there's a system larger than yourself; but all that said...I think you were wronged here.</p>
<p>I'm assuming that you know the SAT is done in pencil, not pen. If you took the entire SAT in pen, your test can't be scored anyway, even if you didn't cheat.</p>
<p>Your proctor crossed the line I think. It was an honest mistake on your part. However, when the proctor says put your pencil down, that's what you do. Try to take everything your proctor says as literally as you possibly can.</p>
<p>One of the times I took the SAT, a student got in trouble for looking at a sheet from an SAT review class during one of the testing breaks telling him how many questions to answer or omit to get a certain score. The proctor yelled at him and made him hand over the sheet. As far as I now though, he was allowed to finish the test.</p>