Hey folks! I´m pretty sure everyone has tried it atleast once just 4 fun or does it on a regular basis because they are too lazy to actually study: cheating your exams! It´s a weird idea for a thread but I´m really interested if and how you do it (and because my exams start soon I need some inspiration ;))
I have to admit: I do it sometimes, when it comes to science i´m helpless. My secret weapon was definately the skirt (for girls only^^), you can hide as many stuff there as you please. And even if the teacher spots something… he will never ever ask you to lift your skirt XD but know summer is over and I have to come up with something new...
so I´m counting on you :D
Cheat your test?
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I was more in the business of catching cheaters.
Fake answer keys were always fun.
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I have a gut feeling you are a teacher who wants to find out how kids cheat now a days.
Then again I might be overthinking things…...
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Whhhaaaat? A teacher! Shit! I got caught IN THE INTERNET!
But you won´t tell, fin fish, will you??? O_o -
I've glanced at someone's test before when I REEEEEEALLY had no fucking clue what I was doing, but never really flat out cheated off anyone.
Also if it's any consolation, I failed most of the tests I "cheated" on.
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My friends and I took sign language class together, so we used sign language to confirm if our answers were correct. Used it mainly for multiple choices.
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! I am suprised at you ocean!
Thats a good idea for using sign language. How did you use it? Like yes or no? Or was it more complex?
I remember my friends doing something very weird, but genius….
They would read the answers/notes aloud and somehow turn that into an mp3. THen they would put it on their mp3 players, hide their mp3 players, play it, and stick their headphone(s) through their sleeves and up to their hands and act as if they were sleepy and layed their head on their hand. And poof, instant answers. The minor drawback was that you had to wear like a long sleeve shirt, a seatshirt, hoodie, or jakcet.
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Cheating is a double edged sword. It all depends on where you are in your school system, really.
Regular classes are more of a gamble. You can't be too sure whether or not the people near you are really as smart as they seem. And generally, if they're smart, they make sure you can't see their paper.
Honors classes are completely different. The level of cheating is amazingly high, especially with how much teachers (at least mine) were constantly scrutinizing us and our papers.
Cheating on tests is rather silly, because that's where you get caught (if the teacher catches you looking). Cheating on essays and other homework is actually easy if you think hard enough.
But most people who need to cheat (other than those being completely swamped wit deadlines from half a dozen other classes) usually can't figure out how to do it right. Which is just fine in my book. As a TA, I loved catching cheaters (when it was plainly obvious).
In fact, I have a great story about the time I was a TA for my science teacher. I was grading some Coordinated Science (think Baby Bio) papers, and six or seven papers in a ROW had:
Q: What are the uses of protein in the human body?
A: To make meat potato.The teacher (and his Bio class that was going on at the time) had major lulz at their expense. You don't want that to be YOU do you? ;).
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That was A, B, C, and D. We used it outside of test, too. Like when my friend is in the class and I wanted to ask her to cut the class to go lunch with me. Cellphone wasn't widely spread back then yet.
Oh yeah, another one if it counts. I got a hold of bunch of past exams (yay for Chinese society), and studied them. Many times in junior college, teacher just reuse the exam over and over, so I usually got good scores. I think some teachers in my 4-year college also reused the exam, too.
I cheated once when I was in high school by glancing over someone's answers, and then got caught. The teacher marked me off for it, but afterwards I pretended innocent and complained to that teacher. I was known for a good student (both grade-wise and behavior-wise), and that teacher was a foreign teacher (came to Japan for JET program or something), so people believed me and the teacher gave me back the points. :whistling: Yeah, sorry, I confess… I cheated. .__.
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Yeah, cheating off anybody is not possible in my class.
We are sitting way too far away from each other so it would just turn out too noticeable (see fin fish? I´m a good kid XD)
However in the back of the class there is always the so-called "group-cheating" taking place: All the idiots sit in the back, with the superbrain in the middle. when he has enough time he writes down the answers on a piece of paper (hidden in a filled bag of chips bacause we are allowed to eat during exams) and gives it to the idiots. -
@Natty:
! I am suprised at you ocean!
Thats a good idea for using sign language. How did you use it? Like yes or no? Or was it more complex?
I remember my friends doing something very weird, but genius….
They would read the answers/notes aloud and somehow turn that into an mp3. THen they would put it on their mp3 players, hide their mp3 players, play it, and stick their headphone(s) through their sleeves and up to their hands and act as if they were sleepy and layed their head on their hand. And poof, instant answers. The minor drawback was that you had to wear like a long sleeve shirt, a seatshirt, hoodie, or jakcet.
people used that one at my school too. but the teachers allowed people to listen to music dureing exams so as long as they had atleast some music on it they could hide that they had read in text on their mp3 players. (big storage and the teachers didnt really bother to go through all the songs)
but i dont think the teachers ever caught on to that one… (never owned any mp3 player so i didnt really bother knowing the tricks)
apart from that the teachers were really strict on cheating so i dont think there was any other way to cheat really. we usually had all the tests in the auditorium and sat really far apart so any communications were really obvious.
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Pfft, spoiled youngins with your eating during tests and your new fangled mp3 players during exams! shakes fist In my day, there was no food, drink or electronics in the classroom. No electronics on campus, for that matter. And yes, it's still like that (I have friends with younger siblings who still go).
Anyway >_>. Don't fret ocean. Lots of people cheat at least once or twice in their lives. I mean, it's not the best choice one could make but you did it, and that's that.
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If people pay me, I'll find a way to give them answers. I've never taken anyone else's answers though.
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When I was in boarding school in England there was this senior who shall rename nameless, but for the purpose of this story will be called X. X was into all the spy movies and such, so he would break into a teachers office and steal a copy of the test for himself. Eventually he turned it into a trade. I mean like the entire school stop studying for tests and just paid him steal an answer key for them(I myself did it a few times too). Anyway one the a History teacher caught him, X punched the teacher in the nose and the teacher hit the floor hard. Hard engough that he was knocked out. Now the school held a tribunal to find out who did it (it was great we had no classes that day!). The History teacher wrongfully accused the wrong student, and swore that he was the one who had stolen the test and knocked him out. The kid ratted out X in the end and X was expelled within seconds, (they gave him seven minautes to get his belongs and leave the campus). Anyway the entire school was punished because we didn't "follow the honor code". So for one month we weren't allowed to leave our rooms after school.
I have to sya that was the worst EVER.
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For my Biology final last semester, I wrote some answers to questions I had trouble with on my hand with a pen.
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The only class I ever felt the real need to cheat in (not that I cheat very often) was probably AP chem. Although the desks were spread out far enough, people still find ways. Like, graphing calculators (my main way of cheating, not that it helped out too much…), or sticking some notes into your reference folder somehow.(it was just a folder with formulas and nothing too helpful -_-'')
I really didnt want to cheat in that class, and I do blame myself for not studying hard enough. But some blame HAS to go to the teacher for going so fast (yeah, I know 'AP' equals 'fast learning' :getlost:) and not explaining too much along the way. -
I've cheated once or twice, mostly because I can't remember anything, but usually the second the teacher hands me a paper, I start writing down everything I can remember about the subject. It's not cheating, and it really helps out, especially since I tend to freak out and make stupid mistakes on tests.
Mostly I remember stretching out a lot with my eyes half closed so it looks like I can't see anything but in fact I can. That or faking sneezing ( I can do it really well for some reason…) and getting a glance as I do that.
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@Bee's:
Pfft, spoiled youngins with your eating during tests and your new fangled mp3 players during exams! shakes fist In my day, there was no food, drink or electronics in the classroom. No electronics on campus, for that matter. And yes, it's still like that (I have friends with younger siblings who still go).
Anyway >_>. Don't fret ocean. Lots of people cheat at least once or twice in their lives. I mean, it's not the best choice one could make but you did it, and that's that.
my school allowed for laptops to aid people with dyslexia on some tests i belive.
(dont think iv cheated even once since i started getting grades… allways seemed like too much trouble too little reward.)
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I'm honor bound not to cheat
But if you just cheat on tests have fun with the life of mediocrity ahead of you
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Gohn cheats all the time. Whatever it takes to get a non-tangible grade so people hire you.
Have no desire to be "honorable" or shit.
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I've always tried my personal best not to cheat. And up to this point, it's worked. Besides, I'd rather earn a bad grade at my own expense than a good one at someone else's. I also know that I'm too smart to do something so stupid.
On the other hand, I suppose I could be called the kid that everyone goes to for answers. I have no qualms about helping someone, but I cheating is in a whole other ballpark.
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Well, laptops for the dyslexic kids I can understand. But the teachers at my school would probably have that kid sit in the very back of the class during tests so as to prevent cheating. And if said dyslexic kid was caught using a labtop for things OTHER than schoolwork, it would have been confiscated immeadiately and held ransom until the parents come get it.
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I know my college has software that takes screen caps of the school computers and can lock off the internet or whatever. I'm not sure if it applies to laptops using the school's network for internet, probably not.
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You guys suck donkey.
A wild nun would've ripped my face off with her filthy dentures if I had cheated in elementary school, so I was simply trained not to.
Instead, I usually learn an arrangement of letters that give the first letters in the words of an important statement or of an arrangement of vocabulary words. (Example: PMAT: Prophase Metaphase Anaphase Telophase.)
Things get a little messy when I end up with larger lists of items (The twelve apostles were a bitch to get a good letter order), but this generally works for me.
And as we all know I'm just totally screwed on math all the time.
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@Cap'n:
I'm honor bound not to cheat
But if you just cheat on tests have fun with the life of mediocrity ahead of you
Unbelievably, this is one of the wisest statements.
My old principle said use to say: "I dont care if you cheat. If you choose to cheat go ahead, I wont stop you. But what I know is that I will never come to YOU (he would put much emphasis here) when want I want somebody to fix my car, perform surgery, etc."
He would give many variations of this speech each time we took a test or he caught someone cheating.
Of course, because I went to a Christian school there was more speech involved, but you know…........
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Hrmmm… ...
At least you guys should start learning how to create efficient cheat sheet. I remember many of my univ teachers allowed us to bring one sheet of paper, and you can write anything on that paper in order to aid your test being successful. I think I had it in history, statistic, and some of the business classes.
It's actually a good way to study, too. You start from a big list of stuffs you need to know. Then you write more important points on the next sheet of paper, and continue that. Eventually you'll remember those points because you write so many times.
Remember to do it in hand writing though. Doing it on computer... doesn't help.
Other stuff I cheated, or rahter, helped others cheat - I did my Japanese homework in the class, and let classmates copy >:) (I took Japanese to fulfill my GE requirement...) The class was fun.
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Wait, there are schools that let you listen to music during tests?
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Pfff, I'm to coo' for schoo' as is, sssoooooooonn.
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Pfff, I'm to coo' for schoo' as is, sssoooooooonn.
ohhh. and I was counting on you the most! Because you always know a witty comment, I thought you could always talk yourself out of getting caught^^
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(hidden in a filled bag of chips bacause we are allowed to eat during exams)
Oh lawd, is this some Death Note? Now I expect kids to rig their lockers with an overly complicated self-destruction-by-burning mechanism.
Cheating methods all depend on the kind of teacher you have, I guess. Some of my teachers are laid back enough to let people chit-chat and roam outside after they've finished, but they're definitely the "I don't care if you cheat, but you're a loser" type. Some treat exams like it's the SATs–no electronics, bags in the back of the class, a million different versions of the test. And then my chorus teacher is number one at making you feel absolutely horrible for any past, present, and future transgressions you've committed or will commit...
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I'd NEVER really dream of it, nor take the risk when it comes to this.
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@Roz:
Instead, I usually learn an arrangement of letters that give the first letters in the words of an important statement or of an arrangement of vocabulary words. (Example: PMAT: Prophase Metaphase Anaphase Telophase.)
I remember one I learned in Biology for the order of classification:
Kings Play Chess On Fine Green Silk (Kingdom/Phylum/Class/Order/Genus/Species)
Don't ask where the silk came from. I also had one for the Order of Operations in Algebra:
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally (Parentheses/Exponents/Multiplication/Division/Addition/Subtraction) -
order of metric system measurements:
Kings Drink Chocolate Milk, Mary Never Plays Fair
(kilo, deca, centi, milli, micro, nano, pico, femto)
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Yep, I cheat sometimes. I remember one specific time, I cheated one a Spanish test, when I had to make up a test I missed. My teacher put me in a spare room to work. I brought the textbook for the class into the room with me. I would occasianally peek at it under the desk while I worked. I got a good score on that test.
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@Roz:
Wait, there are schools that let you listen to music during tests?
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Gohn always listens to music when taking lesson tests in Japanese. Your school sounds like a festering shit bucket.
OH, AND CHEATING IS THE BEST SHIT EVER.
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Cheating for me has always been something I could fall back on as a last resort if I couldn't get what i was studying.
I have cheated a couple of times. many times passing. I have never EVER been caught.
I'll admit I'm a cheater, but I don't cheat off other people I simply can't trust that their answers would be any better.
no, I wont tell you how I do it.
I mean, I know its wrong, so its not like I do it very often. Its pretty much a circumstance thing.
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I don't cheat but I know a lot of people that do. One of them took a water bottle and wrote the answers inside of it so that when they angled it a certain way, you could see the answers XD.
Anyway, last year there was this kid who sat next to me in Spanish who always cheated off of me. He was one of those druggie kids and didn't study for shit. Anyway, when the final came around I scanned the test and knew it would only take me like 20 minutes to finish (we had 80 minutes) so I filled in all the wrong answers. The druggie kid was feeling all confident and turned his in and then came back to see me erasing all the answers and starting over again He got a 4% and I got a 97% lol.
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I use to have kids do that in Geography.
eh, If people are gonna cheat.. be creative.
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I mainly help other people cheat, there's only been a few instances where I've really felt the need to cheat. Once in a while I'll write formulas or terms on the inside of my arm and then wear long sleeves to the exam (looks suspicious in June, though), but I generally don't really need to. I do help other people cheat all the time, just to help them get through high school because I know they're not going to college anyway :ninja:
Hrmmm… ...
At least you guys should start learning how to create efficient cheat sheet. I remember many of my univ teachers allowed us to bring one sheet of paper, and you can write anything on that paper in order to aid your test being successful. I think I had it in history, statistic, and some of the business classes.
It's actually a good way to study, too. You start from a big list of stuffs you need to know. Then you write more important points on the next sheet of paper, and continue that. Eventually you'll remember those points because you write so many times.
Remember to do it in hand writing though. Doing it on computer... doesn't help.
Absolutely. Anytime I've had a test that allowed for a cheat sheet, I'd spend like all night cramming as much as I could onto it and then when it came to the test I didn't even look at it because writing everything down got me to remember it.
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@Roz:
Wait, there are schools that let you listen to music during tests?
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Not even my school lets me do that; and I go to a community college.
I wonder which type of school lets you do that. I hope to God its not a university.
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Maybe it's a music class! vv
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write stuff on your desk before hand in pencil (in code)
write stuff on your pencil
write stuff on your arm
write stuff on paper and hide it in a pen w/ a clear casing
Personally, I never bothered with cheating. I power studied an hour before the test, so it was like cheating because the answers were all there even though I didn't learn anything.
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you're only cheating yourself, taboo
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@Bee's:
Kings Play Chess On Fine Green Silk (Kingdom/Phylum/Class/Order/Genus/Species)
King Philip Came Over For Good Spaghetti.
:D
@Cyringohn:
Your school sounds like a festering shit bucket.
You don't even know the start of it.
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Three times. I got caught almost red-handed in one of them: I was put into a separate room to do the test and the room was a storing space for text books and other stuff. I decided to have a quick peek at the vocalubary section of a certain book and as I was walking back to my seat, the teacher came to check up on me. Shazam! :w00t: It was a test on Swedish. I was addressed, but the teacher didn't fail my test.
The other two were music and math. I had to do the music test outside the classroom and the teacher was busy teaching the class at the same time. She didn't take away my bag, so it was really easy for me to just take out my notebook and cheat that way. The music class is separated from the rest of the building, so I wasn't in a corridor completely vulnerable to witnesses. I got an almost perfect score and I did it intentionally, so that I wouldn't seem suspicious.
In Finland's high schools pupils are allowed to bring a book called MAOL to math, chemistry and physics tests. It contains a list of mathematical symbols and markings, a vast formula collection and several numeric charts. Well, this one time I made some markings in there with really tepid writing. When the teacher announced she would check the books I was going "oh crap!", but she didn't notice the markings and thus I could go through with my cheating. Afterwards I erased all of the markings and I've never done any of them there again.
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you're only cheating yourself, taboo
please
I actually studied once for a Civil War test. Real good an thurogh too, dates and the like. Made an 85 on that bitch because the teacher asked stupid useless crap like 'Where was the birth place of Andrew Johnson', which was in a tiny comment box under some picture in the text.
It was about then I realized, knowing most of this stuff was pretty useless and I'd do alot better in life if I spent all my study time learning an actual trade.
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cheaters never win
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hey hey, I never said I cheated~ I just fantasized about how to do it.
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He got a 4% and I got a 97% lol.
I love you, girl <3 You're great
One thing I made sure - I didn't cheat on my major classes.
Other classes, I don't give a shit - who would use American History after getting out of college?! Political Science?! (Well, maybe PolSci, but I can get away by saying "I'm not a US citizen nor am I interested in it.) I learned enough Japanese stuff back in home; I don't want to memorize the whole system from scratch. Good thing my history and PolSci teachers were very nice. History teacher let me have C while I was failing, just because I attended each session (The class was night class, so many people skipped it) and I was a foreign student. She believed I'd do much better if it was Japanese history. Then, PolSci teacher, he gave us A if we did all the homework and attend the class, even if your exam score is horrible. DDD:
Then there are classes like Bio (I had past exams, though it was one of my favorite subject in HS), Statistic (I forgot to show up in one of the exams, but teacher gave me average of two other tests, which was 99.5. I got 100 and 99 on previous tests without cheating. It was like junior high level of math for me… -__-;; ), etc... Those are something I knew I'm not gonna use for the field I want to go... so didn't matter if people think whatever. I really got away without much studying... I'd rather spend my time studying for my major classes, and I did :)
Oh, but if you're in high school, you should study every subject!! It's for you to know.
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I only cheated once, on my high school Psychology final. It was my last final before the big water balloon fight in the parking lot, and I never expected that I'd be cheating.
We had to mark our answers on a Scantron card… My test copy had ALL THE ANSWERS on it. I dunno how, but I assume that the person from the year before was a genius and had just circled all the answers before marking them down on his/her card.
The hard questions, I faked getting wrong if I honestly didn't know the answer (because I was a B student and if a B student gets a 100 on the final, it's a tad suspicious, no?), but the easy ones I just copied over.:whistling:
Needless to say, that was a great end to a long high school career...