<p>lol… Report him for cheating and then you get your score invalidated… give me a break…</p>
<p>also, people saying it affects the curve… the curve is predetermined by how college students currently enrolled in corresponding courses perform on the AP tests… if it were based on how WE do it, then there would be a perfect bell curve every year.</p>
<p>Err…I know it’s bad morally, but snitching is horrible socially. Didn’t your mom ever tell you that no one likes a tattle-tale? Don’t worry about what other people are doing, just handle your own business.</p>
<p>I consider it out of line for you to snitch, because that’s not your business. Reporting errors in proctoring to the College Board is a different story, but you’re not supposed to snitch on other people. Leave it alone. </p>
<p>The curve doesn’t change with one cheater, when I’d say at least 90% of people don’t cheat. If you were going to get a 5, you are still going to get a 5 regardless.</p>
<p>The scores DO get invalidated, it’s not just myth. My school actually personally knows a school whose scores got invalidated. 200 of them. Because someone’s phone rang. Nobody even answered the phone. Because it rang.</p>
<p>DON’T RISK IT.</p>
<p>Was it possible that this person had a calculator “allowance”?</p>
<p>^I doubt it. I’ve never heard of CB giving calculators as disability accommodation.</p>
<p>And OP, don’t do it. As much as it hurts inside, realize that you could be screwing yourself and your school by doing this.</p>
<p>First of all, do you have nothing better to do than to report a kid who in no way affected you? Second, how can you prove it? Why dont I just report to college board that the kid sitting next to me cheated? I mean it’s not like their gonna give u a freaking medal or anything.</p>
<p>All I see is a kid who didn’t do so well on the exam and is releasing his anger onto another kid who was cheating.</p>
<p>There is no way to completely eliminate cheaters, and it’s not worth the risk of reporting and risking invalidating the scores of your whole class.</p>
<p>You know what <strong><em>es me off? Someone who gets everyone’s score canceled. Don’t report it. It’s your word against theirs, no one can prove it. If any action is taken you’ll look like an a</em></strong>**</p>
<p>It was wrong of that person to do so, but it really didn’t get them a whole lot of advantage. Most of those math problems could have been done in one’s head or on paper. </p>
<p>And you could be jeopardizing the whole school’s scores as well. Just not worth it.</p>
<p>Again, I wouldn’t risk it. Cheating sucks, but you can’t really do anything about it with the College Board…hopefully she won’t be so lucky next time.</p>
<p>Guys, you have to remember that the common thing about “it doesn’t affect you so don’t worry about it” doesn’t technically apply here - the curve is based on performance of everyone. I know that one person cheating and getting a higher score won’t impact the OP’s score, but the reasoning still doesn’t apply.</p>
<p>With that said, OP, do NOT call the Office of Testing Integrity. That office is closely affiliated with the Office of Cancelling Test Scores, and yours will most definitely be cancelled. Just leave it be, because one higher score DOESNT affect you. Perhaps the cheater was so zoned in during instructions that they didn’t realize that calculators weren’t allowed - I honestly can’t see many people blatantly using a calculator when the proctor said they were prohibited.</p>
<p>I would report the cheating. Cheating is cheating. </p>
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<p>I would’ve said to report it, but after see this thread:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/history-social-sciences/1140474-college-board-oti-got-me-expelled.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/history-social-sciences/1140474-college-board-oti-got-me-expelled.html</a>
I’d say no. OTI is hella sketchy and it seems like they will report you back to the school for reporting them. IDK whats wrong with cb, but they seem to punish people who report.</p>
<p>There needs to be someway we can make admissions departments at colleges aware of how much the college board doesn’t care about cheating. Admission departments not valuing scores as much is the only thing the college board will respond to.</p>
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He could have had notes, definitions, or just about anything in the calculator that could have helped him with almost anything on the test.
False. The curve is predetermined.
A handful of people find that thread to just be ■■■■■■■■. Even if it’s not, the OP himself admitted that he sees things the wrong way because he’s autistic. There really doesn’t seem to be much validity to that whole situation.</p>
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<p>Actually, that’s not true for AP Exams. If you look in one of the released exam books, it says somewhere in there (I think around the curve) that the Chief Reader sets the cutoffs at the reading.</p>
<p>@314: Interesting… everything I’ve seen posted on here says that it’s predetermined… unless I’m getting it confused with the SAT.</p>
<p>But then again, they might be lurking on the interwebz and SPYING ON THIS VERY THREAD! Ze will stalk the OP and disqualify her school anyway!!! Oh noes!</p>
<p>jk. I think… lot of crazy rumours about Collegeboard’s OTI. XD Some true, the others not…</p>
<p>In one of the other test taking rooms in my school district, someone’s cell phone went off and all of the room’s 30 tests were invalidated. The proctor simply reported the issue and Collegeboard decided the invalidation.</p>
<p>Collegeboard has become more stringent on this kind of stuff, so act cautiously. Because the calculator wasn’t audible and didn’t affect others, most likely only his would be invalidated if reported IMO.</p>
<p>I hope no one reported my school, because during a test today, someone’s phone (it was in a bin that the proctor had on his desk) went off–albeit on vibrate–three times. But given that no one (including the proctor) cared or even realized that was “wrong” … meh.</p>
<p>Seriously–I understand how actual cheating makes people angry, but in the end, it’s what YOU know. If you don’t know the material, then that’s your fault–not the cheater’s.</p>
<p>But anyway, can we stop speculating and tossing around unverified rumors here? Unless someone has something constructive to post (i.e., an official CB statement), let’s just end this thread :).</p>