Cheating on the Challenge will not be tolerated

Ion Firedvst

Apr 13 • Daily SAT Work 🔥

We tried to warn multiple times that cheating or any kind of "strategies" will not be allowed during the challenge. Yet, some students just continue to look for ways to trick their way to some quick cash. This will not fly. It's unfair to the other students and it's just silly - we have full visibility over your activity during the challenge. We can see when you cheat.

During this quarterfinal Sadiqah and Jason came up with the latest "strategy":

1. Start multiple study sessions at the same time.

2. Use some AI tool to get the correct answers.

3. Submit the answers when each individual clock is past 25 seconds to try to trick the analytics interface. Yet, during these 25 seconds, answers to multiple sessions are submitted.

Attaching two data snapshots that show this pattern clearly.

The result:

Sadiqah - 12s median per question, over 2000+ HARD questions.

Jason - 17s median per question, over 2000+ HARD questions.

For reference, 1500+ scorers average 69 seconds on these questions. Anyone that knows how difficult the questions on Aniko can be doesn't need convincing that 12 and 17s per hard question is just ridiculous.

Obviously the results of this match are nullified and the competitors are given a second chance just because of John's good heart. Yet, if we see any kind of cheating attempt again, disqualification is imminent.

What constitutes cheating:

Anything that goes beyond just solving Reading or Math study sessions, without any kind of outside help, tool or "strategy", like anyone would do during their prep. If the timing per answer, behavior or any kind of other data patterns deviate from the usual activity - it is considered cheating and leads to disqualification.

This is a SAT prep challenge that was organized to motivate the students to study, stay disciplined and push themselves to get a better score. Trying to cheat is just disrespectful to them and to the organizers. If anyone sees this as a chance to trick their way to some quick cash, this challenge is not for them.

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