Suspected Cheating

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So about a month ago I get a notice from CFA institute telling me I’m being investigated for cheating in the dec level 1 exam. Supposedly somebody saw me looking at the guy’s paper beside me, twice. Before you think it: no, I didn’t do this. I even talked to the guy beside me during the lunch break and thought he barely knew the curriculum.
Anyways anyone gone/going through this or know what to expect? I sent back a letter explaining that I didn’t cheat, but haven’t heard much from them. I’m pretty pissed off, I had a good chance of passing going into the exam and now I might get banned..
 
In your reply, did you explain that you were well prepared and from speaking to your neighbor during the break, you gathered that they were not well prepared? If they look into this, and it turns out to be true (i.e., you had a good score and he turned out to score poorly), I don’t see how they could not find your innocent.
I haven’t gone through this, or heard of anyone who has gone through this though. Good luck.
 
Who is the “somebody” ? was it another test taker or a proctor?
 
Yeah, I explained in the response I thought the person beside me didn’t know a lot, and that I studied very hard and what not. The “somebody” was an exam proctor, on paper it looks pretty bad and I’ve heard they follow a very guilty until proven more guilty style of justice.
At this point, I’m just hoping I can retake in June
 
There have been cases where people have won when its a student’s word vs what proctor saw. Not much else you can do except make a case and wait
 
Fight it to the end. It sounds like CFAI is on a witch-hunt to uphold the Charter’s image. Why doesn’t CFA provide testing rooms where cheating by looking around is not possible, and remove all doubt? It’s totally ridiculous to accuse someone of cheating based on the arbitrary circumstantial evidence of a proctor seeing someone “looking around”. Search “PCP” and Joey’s threads for more on this subject.
 
calvol wrote:Why doesn’t CFA provide testing rooms where cheating by looking around is not possible, and remove all doubt?
I’m all set with the $1,100 out of pocket as-is, thanks. No need to increase costs.
 
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