It’s no secret that most students tend to underestimate the professors they are handing their papers to. You see, with years of experience, a well-trained natural lie detector and AI tools for plagiarism, it’s virtually impossible to deceive them. Unless you want to play with the tail of a lion.

In that case, you may end like the group of students from this story on r/ProRevenge, with a failed test, ruined vacation, wasted money, “bored to death and have nothing to show for it.” The story comes from a cancer researcher and guest professor at a university’s school of medicine who goes by the handle u/CmSrN. For part of his module’s grading, the students were asked to submit two reports.

“As I was grading the reports I noticed a small group of students who found reports from previous years online and literally copy+paste those reports, changing only their name,” the professor wrote, calling it “a facepalm moment.” As you can suspect, they did not pass.

But when the time had come to book an appointment to review their grades, the author had prepared a trap for them to teach them a real lesson about where lies and cheating take you. Hint: not far.

A guest professor at a university’s school of medicine shared a story of how he caught his students cheating and lying right to his face so he taught them a lesson to remember

Image credits: Jeswin Thomas (Not the actual photo)

Image credits: Michael Burrows (Not the actual photo)

It’s no secret that plagiarism is still a great issue found in many universities globally. Although it’s unethical and can have serious consequences for students’ future career, and it also undermines the standards of the institution and of the degrees it issues, many students still do it.

Out of a survey of nearly 64,000 students in American universities, 38% of students admit to “paraphrasing/copying a few sentences from a written source without footnoting it.” Merriam-Webster defines plagiarism as the following: “to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own; to use (another’s production) without crediting the source; to commit literary theft; to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.”

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Meanwhile, University of Oxford refers to plagiarism as a breach of academic integrity. “It is a principle of intellectual honesty that all members of the academic community should acknowledge their debt to the originators of the ideas, words, and data which form the basis for their own work,” the university explains on its official website. “Passing off another’s work as your own is not only poor scholarship, but also means that you have failed to complete the learning process.”

Many people supported the professor and his unorthodox method of teaching the students a lesson about cheating

While other people were not that impressed with the professor’s revenge and questioned whether it was the right way

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