<p>When you're taking the sat, how often do you get to go to the restroom?</p>
<p>Also, you know how the SAT has different sections? Howwould the test proctors know if you peeked into them beforehand before taking em? How would they know if you didn't go back and erase answers and put the correct ones? howwould they know if you took your cellphone into the bathroom and googled the anwers/vocabulary for CR and went back to change the answers?</p>
<p>I have a curious mind.</p>
<p>They wouldn’t know. People do it ALL the time.</p>
<p>That’s probably the only real way students can “cheat” on the SAT.</p>
<p>they don’t
people do it ALL the time</p>
<p>most proctors i’ve had just sit down in a chair and read the newspaper. they might peek at the testers occasionally</p>
<p>some of the better proctors might stroll around the room now and then to make sure people are on the right section. I have seen people get caught doing so (the proctor was lenient though and warned him because he just started so she didnt dismiss him)</p>
<p>in another instance, i have seen adults in the bathroom making sure people don’t use their cell phones/discuss answers</p>
<p>otherwise, that’s about it. it’s really easy to cheat on the SATs and people do it all the time =[</p>
<p>Whoa, whoa, whoa, so College Board doesn’t actually seal up individual sections of the SAT? I never knew that, and that is insane. I know people who finish the math section like 10 minutes early, meaning they could use up to 25 minutes to recheck/start other sections (assuming they don’t get caught and have a lazy proctor). I nevr knew cheating was so easy on the SAT, and the worst thing is, college board probably wouldn’t do much of anything if the cheaters were caught.</p>
<p>I know people who do that. Funny thing is, they never score over 1800…</p>
<p>nope they don’t. and most proctors aren’t really reliable either so they can’t do much</p>
<p>if you were caught, you’re supposed to be kicked out of the testing center and collegeboard won’t refund you your money. If it’s something really serious, it might go on your record and you might be rescinded from a lot of colleges o_O</p>
<p>but overall yeah, it’s really easy to…especially with all those breaks; people just share answers all the time -___- that’s why I like the ACT better. there’s only one major break (i think) so people won’t be sharing answers ever 2 sections</p>
<p>Greed, I could imagine a 23xx score guy who’s score is deterred only by the random vocab in the CR section. All the guy would have to do then is search the words up on his cellphone when he’s going to the bathroom or something toget that 2400 scoree. :[</p>
<p>Although it seems easy to cheat on the SAT, I’m too scared to do it. I wouldn’t risk my whole college education on one or two stupid questions. And there is a good chance that the question you “guess” is correct and that the one you heard about is wrong!</p>
<p>My friend did a pretty interesting thing on his SAT. The moment he got the booklet, he quickly opened the essay page and read that prompt as superhumanly fast as possible. And then he had a good 20 minutes to think about all the examples and stuff while the proctor explained the boring guidelines.
You really need a lot of balls to just open the booklet before you’re allowed to. I’m not sure if I can do that. It’s highly risky, I believe.</p>
<p>If you take the test in HK, you’re bound to get caught. Security in their test centers is really tight. They have at least 6 proctors in the whole room which is pretty big, but still, 6 proctors is a lot. They walk through the isles regularly and lock the doors before and after breaks so that people can’t cheat in the bathrooms. Although it’s tempting to read the prompt beforehand, I probably don’t have the balls to do so. Although proctors easily catch cheaters, they’re pretty lenient. Last time I took the AP Physics test, the girl next to me didn’t finish bubbling in her answer sheet when time was called and got caught. She took another 5 minutes to finish and the proctors didn’t dismiss her. Technically, she did cheat, although very understandable, but the proctors are humans anyways.</p>
<p>I heard a very interesting story during a SAT prep class a year and a half ago. My teacher told us about this student he had that climbed through the window of the testing center a day before the test and stole a SAT booklet. He went through the questions with my teacher and ended up getting over 2200 (he was a ~1700 student). He got into UCBerkeley I think but dropped out after two years. I believe my teacher said he’s now going to a 2nd tier school in China (and believe me, 2nd tier Chinese colleges aren’t even worth the low tuition fees). It just goes to show that cheating doesn’t pay off in the long run. If he got a 1700-ish score, he could at least get into a less competitive university where he wouldn’t drop out and be forced to attend a mediocre college in China.</p>
<p>It’s pretty simple to catch someone peeking ahead or filling in more answers than you had before if the proctor is vigilant. There are a few built in ways to do so that aren’t readily apparent to test takers. Cell phones --some test centers have proctors in the bathroom. If I were you I’d worry more about some other student reporting you. That happens a LOT more than people know. They don’t have to do it right there in the room.</p>
<p>last Saturday, the girl on the right of me finished a CR passage like 10 minutes early. Then she took out her cellphone and started texting.</p>
<p>So report her. They’ll know who she is from the seating chart.</p>
<p>ETA: Also, the cell phone rule is definitely not something you want to play with. There are no warnings given for cell phone usage, you’re just dismissed & scores cancelled.</p>
<p>@GreedIsGood, you mentioned something that is, indeed, funny! The statement alludes to the fact that, no matter how much you cheat or what do you cheat, you will never be a top scorer and you will never exceed your actual level!!! And, that’s right, indeed!!</p>
<p>I don’t know about American students, but Chinese students almost never report cheating. The general mentality is that if it doesn’t affect you, then don’t care about it. You should see some of the reactions the we Chinese have towards the news. For instance, if the news reported that some obscure company in, say, Nigeria poisoned each jar of formula with over 3000 units of melamine, Chinese people wouldn’t care much at ALL. In reality, China’s San Lu commited that very crime and caused a national uproar that led to its CEO’s execution.</p>