I used to write stuff in a weird code all over my arms and then draw random stuff so it filled it all up, but still kept the original writing visible, teachers sometimes got uspicious, but all anyone who didn't know something was there could see was a bunch of arm grafitti, that way I could hide whole paragraphs on my arm,though I stopped doing that cause it was too much work, worked quite well though…..
Cheat your test?
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I sometimes cheat on minor tests but NEVER in a test that is like the end-year test or a practice/real exam or something like that.
One way is to make a tiny font size paper with all the information on it. Where you put it, well your problem, I usually go for 'plastic' notebook covers put your work on it and move a bit so you would see the answers, works great. The information paper goes under the cover.
Or use these 'plastic' papers, those that you can see through, teachers wont see them but they do reflect light so be careful if you put them under 'plastic' covers in a notebook then your fine, even better you could actually put these papers as covers.
My classmates send me there cellphones durning tests and I make pictures of mine, works great but PLEASE turn the sound off.
Usually we just talk or show the paper so that the teacher wouldn't see it. Works great. Well they hear it they see it, but we just can get ourselves out of every corner. Talking is the main way to cheat.
If your lucky and you have the work before the test, well do it yourself at home.
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I would fail the test and then have sex with the teacher, regardless of gender. Because after all, those who lie, cheat, and shamelessly self-promote get furthest ahead in life. Cheating FTW! :wassat:
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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^^
I will not fail you next time, but no promises.
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I've copied when I had no idea what I was doing but that's it. Cheating is just too much work.
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Get a small sheet of paper, write your answers or notes on them, wear a long sleeved shirt, and stuff it in there. It makes it easier with a watch so you can walk normally. You know, by putting the paper in the wrist strap. It works whenever I tried it.
Although I don't recommend cheating until a last resort, meaning you don't have time to study.
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Not even the very worst of Finnish schools are bad enough to let you use cells or listen to music during exams… Though it's pretty easy to do the latter in the auditorium, I've had (forgot) my earphones on there quite a few times, though of course I had no music whatsoever on, and no one ever spotted them.
And yeah I did cheat once in the first maths course by writing down some extra formulae in MAOL because I'm so bad at math I'd have had no chance of ever passing. It was pretty easy. Cheating by trying to peek at other people's papers is just stupid and there's no way in hell the teachers supervising the exam wouldn't notice. And you'd need some really superhuman eyesight to do that here anyway.
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Not even the very worst of Finnish schools are bad enough to let you listen to music during exams…
hehehe… why are people assumeing that a school is bad because they let you listen to music? my school was a really good one... its just that they never caught on to the mp3 cheating.
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I cheat when I study my heart out all night for a test, and then get some bullshit question that the teacher didn't tell me to study. Then I guess on it, and "check" my answers with the person next to me.
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I remember in my Chemisty class everyone cheated off me (goes to say something about that class, as I am far from a genius) and never was caught, and then one day I accidently left my text book open and I got yelled at.
Heheh.
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Today in my Honors Chem class, the cheaters got caught by my teacher lol. She was passing back our tests but 4 people didn't get back their tests and when they asked why, she said that they all had the exact same answers lol. It was about time too cause everyone knows they cheat yet the teacher never catches them. I cheated for the first time in 7 years today o_o I was taking a test on Macbeth and I was stumped on the last question and looked at the Japanese girls paper V- I'm so bad.
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lol I used to cheat on my exams all the time. I'd wear capri pants and write on my thigh/knee and just pull my pants up a bit if I needed to see my notes xD never got caught haha.
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I know it's bad too, but I only cheat when I'm in like grave danger of failing.. Studing never works for me. My brain doesn't work understress like tests >.<
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Oh Christ did I cheat.
I used to get my mom to get me out of school on test days so I could have "more time to study" which was actually "asking classmates the answers".
When you get to college, the old saying, "You're only cheating yourself", actually applies (not that I didn't on hard as fuck exams that I didn't give two shits about) since that's stuff you can actually use in life that 'everyone' doesn't already know.
Cheating only gets easier as you get older though. As soon as they introduce graphing calculators, if you get less than a 90 you should be ashamed.
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Oh Christ did I cheat.
I used to get my mom to get me out of school on test days so I could have "more time to study" which was actually "asking classmates the answers".
I´m totaly feeling you ! :D everyone appears extremely too early just to find out what others learned. sometimes it just makes you crazy (last time I heard a girl screaming "WHAT WE HAD TO LEARN THAT?!!" 5 minutes before we started the test.. XD)
yesterday sth very funny happened during my latin-exam, a boy managed to hide a whole dictionary IN HIS PANTS! WTF! yeah he is a fat boy but not that fat that you couldn´t see that thing…but he didn´t get caught...XD -
I just did that today actually.
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I really never found cheating necessary, since if I have trouble on a test or something I tend to not really care much about getting a poor grade, as I can always raise my grade up by doing well on the next test or quiz.
Plus, last minute studying works wonders for me. It's pretty much what keeps me from miserably failing Chinese.
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If you know it, you know it. That's what I've always gone with. I never have to study, I just remember things.
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That's my philosophy as well for the most part, any studying I do is immediately before a test, and it's typically only in Chinese or Art History, I can't remember the names of Greek architects and artists to save my life.
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I never really cheated when I think of it now. Too afraid to get caught.
Seriously, it's horrible. If only the teacher spots 2 kids making eye contact for more than one second, they're both out. And they do spot it. I sometimes save math drills in the calculator though.
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The only exam I've ever cheated on was my GCSE French writing exam. We had to write an essay on a pre-defined topic in an allotted time, and we were allowed to take our own dictionaries into the exam (because the school didn't have enough to go around). Before the exam, of course, the teachers and moderators would quickly check everyone's dictionaries to make sure they hadn't got the essay all written out on the back page or something.
Now, I was pretty bad at French. There was no way I was gonna be able to keep writing for 90 minutes by myself, so in preparation, starting from the letter E, I sneakily wrote a few sentences at the start of each letter of the alphabet and covered them up with small pieces of paper so they wouldn't notice when flipping through.
I didn't get caught, but even still, I only managed to scrape a C grade out of it. Probably because my essay was just a Babel Fish translation. >_>
Other than that, I've never really cheated on a proper test. It's not so bad at high school level as you can generally get through regardless, but at if you feel the need to cheat when at university, I just see it as putting off the inevitable.
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you cheated with a babelfish translation? =S
(ugh reminds me when i had to translate zozo la tornade. a sentance meant "zozo had to pinch his sister to get a sandwich with honey on." didnt fit at all into the context and was horrible trying to figure out what the fuck was going on… dropped learning french shortly after that.)
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I would be too worried about getting caught to cheat. Also, although there were times when I had an opportunity to easily cheat, I could never bring myself to do it.
If there's one thing I'm good at though, it's studying.
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in my school the guys left books in the toilet n they go there during the exams to check the books for answers.
also, one girl got caught looking at her notes that she hid in between her answer sheet and the question papers. the teacher took it and waved it in front of the class. that was so embarassing.
in one of my language tests, i was wondering aloud if what i'm doing is right (it was language class so it wasn't very formal). so dis guy who fancies me n an ace in the language slipped his answers under my table. then the guy next to me hit me on my shoulders and asked me for the answer that the other guy gave me. we were very loud apparently so of course the teacher knew of our 'transaction'. but he didn't do anything about it. =)
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I cheat ALL the time! Once, I cheated off the teacher.
That's how hardcore I am.
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Too bad you can't cheat someone to make good posts
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I cheat ALL the time! Once, I cheated off the teacher.
What do you mean by that?
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He means he studied as hard as he could and did the test properly. But he's trying to make it sound cool because he is so insecure about himself and this threads seems to be about "cool kids" cheating on tests, and he doesnt want to feel left out.
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This thread looks fun…
I rarely cheat, but I've gotta say the teachers make it pretty damned hard. Graphing calculators always get their memory erased right before math tests, so any saved programs are useless. Cell phones, iPods, and the like are strictly not allowed in the building, but back in the day when they were, the classrooms were (still are) arranged in such a way that it'd be impossible to use them under the desk without getting caught. No hoods/hats allowed, either, so it'd be kinda hard to listen to something.
If I REALLY don't know what the hell's going on, I usually crack my neck while frantically trying to memorize whatever the person next to me wrote down. You can only keep your head cocked for so long before it begins to look suspicious. AP Gov. is an extremely casual class, though, so the teacher'll just start doing a dance or something in the middle of a test. Everyone starts laughing and discussing his nonsense, so I just lean over and ask my friends for some answers.
Helping others cheat is really more my thing, especially freshman year. My geometry teacher was so incredibly clueless about everything (save for this one time in which my friend was looking over my shoulder during a test, copying down EVERYTHING, including all my little notes and equations in the exact same places in the side margins. Teacher was all, "I need to talk to you two after class." We both ran out as soon as the bell rang, and she didn't even remember the issue until the very last day of school.) that my friend and I were tossing post-it notes back and forth during the final. Simple enough on that one. Just jot down the answers and toss 'em when the teacher's not watching.
Kneadable erasers are also fun, as you can spell out letters and such to whoever's next to you.
For a fun, non-cheating way of doing good on tests, you can always come up with a crapload of acronyms (or whatever they're called) for stuff. Dogs Can't Eat New Brown Micro Chips was a good one for my last Gov. test...
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lol I used to cheat on my exams all the time. I'd wear capri pants and write on my thigh/knee and just pull my pants up a bit if I needed to see my notes xD never got caught haha.
evil genius? u sly "son", sly. *does crazy rapper stance ^.^
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This thread is kinda old, i know, but the topic is ageless.
I cheated twice in tests so far. First at the Gymnasium when they had just gotten new computers in the Library. I just said that I have to go to the toilette and headed straight for the Library instead. I then googled when the Tripple Alliance treaty was signed (1882) and went back to class :ninja: It was completly unnecessary to cheat too, cause I was really good in history… I just wanted to see if you could simply walk in there and do it.
Second time was in collage when I already knew I was going to do control theory later on, and I still had to take a test in manufacturing engineering. They actually provided a sheet with the formula that they said were the necessary ansatzes for solving the problems. But from studying for the test we all knew that the sheet was for the tests the previous professor had taken. So we all wrote down the additional ones on tissues. I know it sucks to cheat in collage but they really asked for it there :getlost:
In many tests we are offcially allowed to use an A4 pages of handwritten notes. It only leads to the tests being made harder than without it... The worst ones are the tests to which you are allowed to bring any non electronic help you want to. Cause at those they absolutly have to come up with problems that you see for the first time.
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Well, I can´t say that this was cheating, but one time when I was in Middle school, I was doing a history test (without consultation) , when I saw one question, about the Russian revolution, I knew the answer in my mind, but I didn´t knew if it was right so I checked my history book (with the teacher and everyone in the class seeing it), when I found the answer , I put the book back in my backpack. Like, hell no, I know this stuff, I´m not going to fail only because of some word I don´t know. In college, I never cheated, because I do not know cheat, and if my friends were making a collective cheating, I would deny to participate.
Because if I gave some suspicion that I was cheating, it was not just me who would be caught
Some people have copied my answers, the right and wrong, but I never denounced anyone.
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2007!?! That's quite the thread necromancy!
Might as well throw my story.
I had a class where you had to come in every night at 6:30pm and leave 9:15pm. Her lectures were horrendously long, but her tests were all online. Every single test, including the final exam, were online. And every single time, I'd go to the public computer lab.
The first exam, about 5-7 other students from the class were there taking the class together. I joined them.
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Oh wow, and I was wondering how this "new" thread got to five pages so fast.
Either way, I do not cheat on tests. Never have, never will.
Honor and all that. I'm just too proud a person to do it.However, I will help others cheat - passively, by letting them take a good look.
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I don't remember. I probably did a few times before.
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I cheated a lot on my tests in French III, I would write answers on my hands or make little cheat sheets to slip under my paper.
I passed the tests but I was so lazy on most of my other assignments that I still failed the class P:
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There was this teacher that basically gave all the answers for tests on the day before exams for studying purposes.
I thought it was kinda amazing, and intentional even. No college professor could be that stupid.
I took the chance as an opportunity to jot the answers on a scantron ahead of time, and then turn it in on test day.I feel bad for anyone that failed that class. Mission Impossible. I'm not even sure if it counts as cheating.
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A few weeks ago my final in microbiology was basically skewed in nobody's favor because the inept professor who doesn't know how to be a teacher resulted in all eight of us having 60s on every test around maxmimum, due to his hilarious methods of teaching and then going "ooh what's gonna be on the test ANYTHING could be on the test" and boy if that wasn't right. Three tests and that was the whole grade, screw him and screw that
Pretty sure I maybe was only getting 60s and everyone else was failing outright?
Only five of us took the final at all and whenever the teacher would boredly leave the classroom to talk to somebody next door I'd just pull out my phone and google whatever was something I didn't know. I knew we'd be getting a curved grade and I wanted to max out my chances of getting an acceptable grade (I think I have a C in it and I'll live with that).
I don't regret it a single bit that asshole teacher was sexually harassing people anyways and I hated going to that class to watch him be awful and awkward
I'm glad I cheated and probably got an 80+. If I'm lucky and don't have a C, the sexual harrassment investigation might negate the class outright
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@The:
A few weeks ago my final in microbiology was basically skewed in nobody's favor because the inept professor who doesn't know how to be a teacher resulted in all eight of us having 60s on every test around maxmimum, due to his hilarious methods of teaching and then going "ooh what's gonna be on the test ANYTHING could be on the test" and boy if that wasn't right. Three tests and that was the whole grade, screw him and screw that
Pretty sure I maybe was only getting 60s and everyone else was failing outright?
Only five of us took the final at all and whenever the teacher would boredly leave the classroom to talk to somebody next door I'd just pull out my phone and google whatever was something I didn't know. I knew we'd be getting a curved grade and I wanted to max out my chances of getting an acceptable grade (I think I have a C in it and I'll live with that).
I don't regret it a single bit that asshole teacher was sexually harassing people anyways and I hated going to that class to watch him be awful and awkward
I'm glad I cheated and probably got an 80+. If I'm lucky and don't have a C, the sexual harrassment investigation might negate the class outright
I remember you saying you hated that guy but damn. For some reason that reminded me of when I was in a physics class with two different sections (totally different professors). My class was great and my professor was called Boggs which is a badass name but I digress; the other section had the misfortune of a midterm that was too easy. That doesn't sound bad right? But the class is curved by department policy. Where like, only the top 25% of grades qualify as A-range. Well, the test was out of 105 points (don't ask me why 105 and not 100). And the mean score on the test was… 104. I kid you not. So guess what? A 104/105 was like a B-. All I can say is the NEXT midterm for that class had a very, VERY low mean score…
Anyway. I don't think I've ever cheated on a test. I've cheated on projects before though. But that's easy because they are done outside of class.
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La la la la
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Then for the bio exam, he breezed through the multiple choice exam easily, circled all the answers on his exam itself, then we did the same thing, switching exams so I could fill in my scantron, then we switched back.
Holy crap scantrons. I totally forgot about those. Been so long since I last took a test on one.
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Holy crap scantrons. I totally forgot about those. Been so long since I last took a test on one.
I had 8 classes, and most days I was in school from 8:30am to 6:30pm. I also commuted to school by taking buses and subways for a total of 4 hours a day, so I don't know how I would've survived otherwise.
That being said: It feels good to be done with college!
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I don't think I ever put enough effort into a method of cheating so that it could be considered as useful enough to be regarded as cheating, so…
I'm curious and a bit too lazy to make a new thread for it but what was your worst test(doesn't matter what metric be it your worst performance or whatever else)?
Mine was in geography, the teacher printed a black and white copy of middle europe and we had to write into it all the names to all the major locations, rivers, mountains and what not at the right place. When we asked him before what to study for the test he told us to watch our atlases.
To score the maximum you had to have I think about 50 names.
It was pretty retarded and to this day I cannot fathom of what use it could have been to be able to do that. When the class complained he told us it was all common knowledge.Well that was just one of the many teachers that had me lose all faith in general education...
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I have a teacher this semester who has god awful handwriting. When he writes on the board, you can barely make anything out. And for some unfathomable reason, he handwrites his tests too. He's in his 80s, so maybe he never learned how to use a computer, but I've never seen something as unprofessional as these tests he hands out.
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I never cheated on a test but not out of any sense of pride but because I'm not very covert
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In a sense, I don't really 'get' cheating. I just personally don't understand how someone can care more about an ultimately arbitrary ranking they get on something, more than actually understanding the material at hand. Granted, I suppose that's easy enough for me to say since I've always done fairly well on things regardless, and of course everyone is different anyways, but that's my personal stance on things, at least.
There's actually been at least one occasion when I was chided by friends for my honesty in that regard. I was given a take-home test back when I was in college, and the teacher considered some of the questions difficult enough that he posted hints for them on his website, with the instruction to write on the test which hints, if any, you used, for a few points docked per hint. My friends were basically in disbelief that I actually wrote when I used a hint; but again, for me, it was rather that I had trouble imagining why someone would betray the trust given to them for something so petty as a couple points on a test.
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@Panda:
In a sense, I don't really 'get' cheating. I just personally don't understand how someone can care more about an ultimately arbitrary ranking they get on something, more than actually understanding the material at hand. Granted, I suppose that's easy enough for me to say since I've always done fairly well on things regardless, and of course everyone is different anyways, but that's my personal stance on things, at least.
There's actually been at least one occasion when I was chided by friends for my honesty in that regard. I was given a take-home test back when I was in college, and the teacher considered some of the questions difficult enough that he posted hints for them on his website, with the instruction to write on the test which hints, if any, you used, for a few points docked per hint. My friends were basically in disbelief that I actually wrote when I used a hint; but again, for me, it was rather that I had trouble imagining why someone would betray the trust given to them for something so petty as a couple points on a test.
If it's the difference between passing and failing, of course there's incentive to cheat. It's not an arbitrary ranking.
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@Panda:
In a sense, I don't really 'get' cheating. I just personally don't understand how someone can care more about an ultimately arbitrary ranking they get on something, more than actually understanding the material at hand. Granted, I suppose that's easy enough for me to say since I've always done fairly well on things regardless, and of course everyone is different anyways, but that's my personal stance on things, at least.
To be brief, if you think every class people take is done so out of interest in the material, or that everyone is keen on learning all subjects, then you are very wrong… hell lots of people go to university for all the wrong reasons altogether.
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@Panda:
In a sense, I don't really 'get' cheating. I just personally don't understand how someone can care more about an ultimately arbitrary ranking they get on something, more than actually understanding the material at hand.
It's the banking method of education. When emphasis is placed on those arbitrary numbers that have an exceptional impact and pressure, critical thinking and application of knowledge may not be reinforced, students might not grow up with that in mind, college students might give the barest. Maybe? And a lot of classes are taken, especially and almost exclusively electives, for the sake of trying to maximize the number game.
As far as I can tell. My experience is in art school, where taking classes like Sight Reading was for my benefit entirely and I'd never do anything but ensure I learned those necessary skills.
I can at least say in my case I made sure above all else I learned to the best of my abilities. The information is part of my profession and I put a lot of time into studying those lectures and reading the textbook and supplementary material. I wouldn't defend cheating on a general level, and maybe I shouldn't even defend the way I did it. It was a terribly taught class and since it looked like everybody failed except me, we might have been allowed to retake it for free (might still be able to?) if we brought it up (sexual harassment investigation not withstanding I hope that asshole gets fired).
But I wasn't going to take that chance when 1700 dollars a class is on the line. Like goddamn 1700 dollars and I cannot handle retaking for that price. I'd cheat the hell out of that final test again.
But yeah as far as everything you said goes, Panda, you are basically entirely correct and I by no means wish to try to defend cheating. It's just one of those things where I'm temporarily on that side of the fence and I'mma feel the guilt. YOUR POST MAKING ME FEEL THE GUILT