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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Curious why would a kid cheats in test like this. What would be the gain out there...just to show off?! I don’t quite understand the motivation.[/quote]
I don't know why kids cheat, but as someone who has proctored for math contests, I can assure you that many kids do cheat.  They peek at each other's papers, use hand signals to try to give their friends the answers, sometimes even talk to each other about the test during the test, smuggle in calculators, flip the test and start before it's time, and keep working after time is up.  I would guess that they want to please their parents or look good to their peers.  Some of these, like taking too much time, wouldn't be possible on AMC 8, but kids could easily have been talking or sharing answers during the test.

Also, the math kangaroo results from last year demonstrate pretty clearly that apparently many parents will help their kids cheat.  They ended up with over 10 times as many perfect scores on the online test than they did with the regular tests.  I don't know why parents would help their lower elementary kids cheat on a completely trivial contest like Math Kangaroo, but the numbers don't lie.

For AMC 8, people on this forum have already suggested that a high score should help a TJ application.  I can easily picture people cheating if they think a higher score will help them get into selective programs.[/quote]

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