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Most of us have probably cheated on a test or an essay assignment and got away with. However, teachers don’t make it the easiest task to execute a morally ambiguous passing-technique and that’s why students go out of their way to find different methods to pass a test. If only they put the same energy into actually studying, right?
One Reddit user recently asked teachers what were the most creative cheating methods they witnessed, and people (teachers and students alike) delivered! So scroll down below to read their stories and don’t forget to comment and vote for your favorites!
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#1
I’m a high school teacher, but this story is about my own high school math teacher playing us and “cheating.” It was an honors algebra/geometry class, and it was well known that Mr D re-used the same questions every year, just changed the numbers. He made a big deal about making sure we all gave our exam papers back to him after we had looked at our scores and gone over everything together to prevent cheating for the next year. Well, of course, some of my classmates got their hands on a complete set of tests from the previous year. Soon, everyone had a set. Before each exam, we would sit together and make sure we knew how to solve every problem on that test so we could do it on the real exam with different numbers. Years later, when I became a teacher myself, I saw Mr D at a funeral. I confessed to him that this is what we used to do. He smirked and said “Who do you think leaked the test packet to get you to study?” Mr D had figured out that kids won’t study if the teacher suggests it, but if they think they’re getting away with something, they totally will, so he managed to get a test packet out and circulating as contraband. Blew my mind.
Gracie Mae 6 years ago
As I was reading it, I was thinking that Mr. D was pulling a fast one--Great idea to get kids to study!
tuzdayschild 6 years ago
When I read, "we would sit together and make sure we knew how to solve every problem", I thought, that's called studying people. Love the twist that Mr. D. orchestrated it all.
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#2
Not the student but the teacher So, the teacher, let's call him Mr. A, had a reputation for being a phenomenal teacher who had every student engaged/invested in his class, no matter how mundane the subject. Any time he asked a question, every student's hand would shoot in the air with them shouting things like "call on me!" or "I know the answer!" Simply, Mr. A developed a reputation in the district as one of its best teachers. Fast forward a couple years and I'm grabbing coffee with Mr. A and I ask him "what's your trick? How did you get every student bought in?" His response, "well, I told the kids every time we had a visitor in class, I need you all to raise your hand like I was giving away free candy. BUT if you don't know the answer raise your left hand. If you do know it, raise your right hand, so I know who to call on and we all look good. Worked like a charm."
Bumble 6 years ago
Oh dear, I fell for it at the beginning of the story. But I have heard a version of this story loads of times, complete 'friend of a friend' myth. Next they will be telling us about a man with a hook hand who escaped from an institute...!
Matthew Valentine 6 years ago
There's no reason a teacher couldn't do this though.
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#3
High school kids recreated a Snapple label where the nutrition panel on the back had all the answers, formulas, etc. only got caught because I’d never seen the flavor before and wanted to see how much sugar was in it.
Agnes Jekyll 6 years ago
that kid with the label must have been s******g when the teacher picked it up!
robman1ok1 Hernandez 2 years ago
That's how they got caught, it should have been kiwi not kiki.
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#4
I was supervising a final chemistry exam along with another coworker. Not 15 minutes in, a hand slams down on a desk and I turn around expecting the worst, only to see my coworker angrily shouting at a pair of really frightened 10th graders whose desk he smashed. Amidst the shouting I caught the words, “Morse code”. The guy proceeded to take them to the office. I called a hallway supervisor to take over and ran after the group. Apparently, the kids were silently tapping the answers amongst themselves in Morse code. Not even with their fingernails, just their fingertips. I never heard a thing, my coworker happened to catch “B” in Morse code or something. I honestly thought he finally went crazy solely because of his appearance, picture Robin Williams in Jumanji going WHAT YEAR IS IT. I’m 100% sure that if this coworker weren’t in the room, they’d have gotten away with it for sure.
Shiba Inu 6 years ago
it might be cheating but that's a genius idea and also good for them for learning it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Panda Dressed as a Capybara ;) 2 years ago
Weird question: How do you get the smile in the face?
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Jodi Ellis 6 years ago
So much thought process and learning going into cheating, instead of just learning the material
Monday 6 years ago
As a teacher.....I honestly would have let this slide. If they were willing to go far enough to learn morse code in order to cheat they deserve the chance.
Hans 6 years ago
Absolutely. Stop it, but taking to the principal? Pathetic.
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#5
I remember in middle school we would rely on the one kid who actually studied. Most of the quizzes our teachers gave was multiple choice so if the answer was A, the kid would cough, if the answer was B, he would sniffle, if the answer was C, he would sigh and if the answer was D, he would stretch in his seat. Everyone in my science class was eventually that kid. Every time there was a quiz, a different person in the class would study.
I_Am_Goober 6 years ago
This reminds me of something out of the Meg Ryan movie I.Q. Excellent movie.
Jodi Ellis 6 years ago
I would think the teachers would catch on to all of the noise making and movements.
Margaret Althea Elvenshadow 6 years ago
If my class used this method, when it would be my turn to be the studier, I'd intentionally give everyone the wrong answers to the test. Cheating isn't cool and if you cheat you deserve to fail. (This is coming from someone who has multiple mental illnesses that make it hard for her to study and do well in school. I still understand that cheating is wrong.)
#6
As a student, I remember when my entire year level was accused of cheating, as the test results came back consistently high. What the teachers failed to realise, was that some of the answers were actually hidden in other questions. So if you got stuck on one question, you could find the answer later on in another question. An example would be (this was a japanese language test) "What does ___ word mean" and later on, a question would use that word in context, so you would understand what that word meant.
Izolda Bronstein 6 years ago
I give the test like this to my 5-6 graders only 1 or 2 from the class notice and USE the hints
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Tarmin Slingerfinger 6 years ago
I mean, that's a basic of test solving right? The more questions on a topic, the more chance you can piece it together from other parts of the context
Hard 2 Guess 6 years ago
I have personally found many answers using this trick. I guess I am not the only one.
Betsy Knox 6 years ago
I found that to be true on most tests. I figured that the teachers did that on purpose, it at least insured we learned which is the point of tests in the first place.
Jodi Ellis 6 years ago
I have experienced this in some of my own tests that I have taken. That is why you should move on to the next question and answer what you know. You might find answers to your questions
Maegan Winkelmann 6 years ago
As a teacher, I know when my tests do this. In fact, it astonishes me that almost no students seem to take advantage of it. Makes me a little sad when it's like, guys, you didn't know the word for the thing? It showed up three times earlier in the test.
#7
One of my old teachers told us a story about a student who had rigged up a tiny scroll of paper in a wristwatch with notes written on it. He turned the scroll by winding the watch. He ended up getting caught because he was winding his watch so damn much during the exam, but the teacher loved the creativity.
#8
There was a class that allowed you to bring one sheet of handwritten notes to exams. I knew a guy that created a font of his own handwriting and used to print the entire study guide onto a piece of notebook paper, front and back. He even set the font color to pencil grey and managed to get the margins and spacing exactly right to look like it'd been handwritten.
earringnut 6 years ago
This reminds me of the legend of the red and blue ink notes that could only be read with using one eye and a pair of old school 3d glasses
Brivid 6 years ago
If you write something down by hand there is better chance you will remember it.
Full Name 6 years ago
But there's a 100% chance you'll get the right answer if you have all of it in tiny type.
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Django Stewart 6 years ago
Future programmer. Spending a lot of time in order to save time later.
Dilly Millandry 6 years ago
I'm sure I saw something about this on BP where there was a photo of the font/paper... Does anyone else recall this?
robman1ok1 Hernandez 2 years ago
That doesn't make sense. You said he would need to cheat so why study?
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So, not a teacher, but I witnessed probably the biggest cheating related scandal in our high school's history. For context, we had the sweetest old guy as our Chem teacher. He called everyone "Bud" or "Buddy" or "Ma'am", he always helped, he volunteered to teach Driver's Ed after school so kids could learn to drive. He always had a twinkle in his eye because he genuinely showed love and kindness to everyone. A side effect of this was that he was very trusting. So one day, before finals, he ran to the bathroom during class while everyone was wrapping up their lab reports. While he was gone, someone ran to his desk, found the finals just sitting there, snapped a pic, and then ran back to their desk before he got back. Somehow, no one tattled. Probably because 90% of our grade level in that class was on board with it. The pictures got texted around, but a few people were smart enough to Bluetooth in to each other so it couldn't be tracked. Wellllll after the test, everyone had high scores and apparently someone confessed. This resulted in a huuuuuuuge investigation by the assistant principals, school police officer, and faculty. They traced every text message and busted so many people, all except the ones who transferred via Bluetooth. They had to re-issue the test. Man that was crazy. I felt so bad for the teacher, he was really sad someone had taken advantage of him and I was too. Such a good dude.
r3dd3v1lL 6 years ago
Considering they had phones with cameras and bluetooth not that old. I can remember phones with black and white screens and later VGA cameras and infrared ports. You actually had to hold them close together to make a transfer.
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Ella Adaleigh 6 years ago
How the f**k did they have the legal rights to peoples phones/texts? Sound like a lawsuit to me.
Flare 5 years ago
Makes me want to smack the person who took advantage of him.
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Jane Alexander 6 years ago
We had an old teacher, often appeared after we were all there, so often some kid would have set his loud alarm clock and buried it the wastebasket by then. I don't remember anything about that class, and I doubt that teacher would because I saw the girl next to me work hard at it while I sat and drew horses and I got a 'C', She got a 'D'.
#10
Stretch a rubber band around a text book, write whatever you want on it, then when you take it off the textbook, it’ll just look like scribble until you stretch it to see what’s written. Spanish conjugations drove me to do some incredibly unethical things.
#11
I was grading a written assignment that had a 1000 word count minimum and one particular paper just felt really short to me despite word telling me it was roughly 1100 words long. On a hunch I hit CTRL-A and sure enough after the paper concluded there was a lot of white nonsense text on a white background.
Troux 6 years ago
Very useful trick for these minimum word/page essays. If they're handed in on paper instead of digitally, then teachers just go by page count - about 500 words/page,. Do a 'Find and Replace' to replace all commas, periods and other punctuation marks with the same thing but 2 font sizes larger. It can add a surprisingly large buffer to your paper!
Cynthia Hunter 6 years ago
i did this alot when i had a 3000 word essay but only could get 2950
Jill 6 years ago
I heard from a student I know very well that when he has written too long an assignment over the word count, he will write zeroes after the period. He then colors these white which makes them look like spaces. This makes the word count function think of the end word and the first word as one word and makes the word count lower. Absolute genius.
Erik Granqvist 6 years ago
Why would anyone bother to cheat on word count? It was more of a challenge when a teacher said that I couldnt write more then x number if words. I mean, you just fill in with a lot of really roundabout sentences
Alexandru Bucur 6 years ago
You know, this kind of thing is always alien to me, because I've always had the opposite problem. As this answer can attest, I am a really verbose person (it gets even worse in person, believe me) so I always ended up going waaay over the limit had had to trim any essays down. Also, it's amazing the stuff they let you get away with if you are brazen - for example, I remember on my baccalaureate (compulsory end-of high school exam in my country, held at a national level with outside teachers), on my Romanian Literature exam (one of the compulsory subjects), I didn't like whatever the subject was so I treated it by comparing it to the writing of Hemingway - as a result I talked maybe one page about what I was supposed to talk about and the rest was aaall Hemingway. I got a 9.5 (out of 10)
#12
College physics, girl with a really intricate tattoo on her leg wrote formulas in between the tattoo lines. Even looking closely you couldn't tell unless you knew what you were looking for. You could tell it was test day because she wore shorts.
Ruby Brook 6 years ago
Wow... that's cool. Now I just have to get a really intricate tattoo and I can cheat!
Mechelle Freeman 6 years ago
She wrote on her tattoo that was already there.
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#13
During a keyboard harmony lab exam (a room with 28 keyboards), one devious student had previously recorded another student's perfect performance of the exam piece on MIDI . The cheater played the recorded piece on MIDI, but used all the right hand motions on his keyboard at the back of the room to try to fool me that he was actually playing it in real time. Unfortunately for him, the student he recorded happened to be my piano student, and I recognized the distinctive playing immediately. I didn't embarrass him during class by calling him out on it, but dealt with the problem privately - a lesson he told me later that would stay with him for the remainder of his life.
Whawhawhatsis 6 years ago
Good for you. Praise in public but criticize in private is the way I was always taught to deal properly and fairly with other people
Judith Wilson 4 years ago
"perfect performance" versus "distinctive playing"?? How does that work?
robman1ok1 Hernandez 2 years ago (edited)
Every musician has their own nuances. For example; if you heard Eric Clapton playing if you know his technique you'll know it's him even if you've never heard the song before. Same with Stevie Ray, etc.
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My teacher shared with us a story about how since she allowed eating during her tests, one person pulled out a giant bag of M&Ms and ate a specific color corresponding to A/B/C/D. It was a two student duo and they only got caught when another student ratted them out.
Gracie Mae 6 years ago
this would involve every kid constantly looking at the m&m eater; i'd think the teacher could've caught on to that pretty easily
Jane Alexander 6 years ago
Eating during a test? What kind of nitwit "teacher' floods the classroom with assorted food odors to foul the air during a test? Oh, it was s survival class. Oops, sorry, nevermind.
#15
I passed a pop quiz in high school by looking across the room and focusing on the top of the smart girls' pencil and trying to decipher if she wrote A B C or D after the teacher asked each question. It actually turned out more successful than I thought it would. Also, I'm all about academic integrity when it comes to important higher education when relative to your field of work but I don't understand loading immense amounts of needless information into young, hormonal teenagers and getting upset or surprised that they don't have the mental stamina to deal with it all and would rather cheat
r3dd3v1lL 6 years ago
Huge respect for the second paragraph. I've cheated in high school when I had 10+ subjects, but never in university with only 4- 5 at a time. And never on exams.
Lauren Kaufmann 6 years ago
im okay borrowing homework or classwork answers, but I would never be able to cheat on a test/quiz/exam
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Cory Kent 5 years ago
I used to give quizes with help notes available. I'm not testing you to find out how little you studied, or how difficult it is for you to pick it up. I was teaching you so you could learn the subject, and so you could feel confident and comfortable with my subject. Especially if it's not an elective. This way, I figured, in the process of looking through pages of notes and paragraphs, and hints, you would be learning whatever it was you didn't know, and reinforce your understanding.
Cakpop_and_Pringles 6 years ago
Yes, I agree. Once in my English class there was a girl who was failing miserably. She would leave the class really upset because every day yesterdays homework was handed out and there was an assignment due tomorrow. She didn't understand the homework usually, and she had never had the teacher before, making it hard for her to ask questions. It didn't help that this teacher was really terrible at explaining things. Anyway, one time she gave up and just cheated by asking a friend to give her the answers. She got in trouble, and the teacher said, "but, why?" She just looked at the teacher, and I could almost imagine her mouth hanging open. Later she told me she wanted to say to her, "I'm failing. That is the only reason I needed." I was upset that the teacher couldn't figure out for herself that this girl was failing and to shy to ask questions to a teacher that she had only had for a few months.
robman1ok1 Hernandez 2 years ago (edited)
I'm the guy that believes a lot of things many people don't because I've seen and done some pretty unbelievable s**t, but this one is kind of hard to swallow. I'll kind of go with the eraser thing, like reading lips l, but how would you know what question she was on? One question off and you're done.
NinjaMagoo 2 years ago
I think it said in the explanation than it was a quiz, that the teacher was speaking each question.
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Green Panda 4 years ago
Cheating is never okay, even if you fail because you don't. Don't make up excuses to justify cheating.
Jim Hunt 6 years ago
I'm deeply troubled by what I perceive as a scourge of cheating, that serves to teach our young adults to be good at cheating not good at life. But even with this sad opinion, I can't quite bring myself to entirely denounce all folks cheating today, in the world they exist. The world I was in at this age was different, so how can I judge? Still... please don't cheat.
#16
Not sure if this would work anymore, but if I had a paper to write on a book I didn't read I would find a well written paper online. Then translate the entire thing from English to German, German to French, French to Spanish, then Spanish back to English. Pull the original paper and the new one up side by side and clean up the grammar on the new paper and you've got the same concept, but written just different enough to not be plagiarism. Worked like a charm.
Matt 6 years ago (edited)
I do not know if it would work, but if I had an article I could write in a book I did not read, I would find a well-written article online. Then, translate everything from English to German, from German to French, from French to Spanish and from Spanish to English. Pull the original paper and the new paper side by side and clean the grammar of the new paper. They have the same concept, but they are so different that you are not plagiarized. It runs like a clock. (your method applied to your post - would probably still be flagged by any decent plagiarism detection)
The Girl on Fire 6 years ago
Okay, I'm definitely using "It runs like a clock" in my conversations now.
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robman1ok1 Hernandez 2 years ago
Unless you speak those 4 languages fluently I would think reading the book would be easier...unless it's the Stand or War and Peace.
@Daisychain 5 years ago
I'm not sure if this would work anymore, but if I wrote an article in a book that I haven't read, I would find a well-written article on the internet. Then he translated everything from English to German, from German to French, from French to Spanish and then from Spanish to English. Take out the original and new paper side by side and clean up the grammar on the new paper and you will get the same concept, but written differently so that it is not plagiarized. It worked like magic.
r3dd3v1lL 6 years ago
After all that translating it might just be easier to read the book. Though I do admit I did "wing it" with one book- for the life of me I simply couldn't read Père Goriot/ Old Goriot. A more boring and dull book I have never seen before or since. So I just found a resume on the whole thing and still somehow got a 5.
robman1ok1 Hernandez 2 years ago
You can add Moby D**k to that list. I'm an avid reader, read most of the classics, liked them but Moby is a D**k
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all that effort put into cheating seriously makes me wonder, why bother? why not just learn the stuff? i can kind of see it from the side of the kids--maybe the subject matter is excruciatingly boring or maybe they don't have the wherewithal to comprehend some of the material...i started off with serious questions, but i guess i've answered them myself.
#17
My exams that used a graphic calculator (TI-84) required us to show the examiners a “proof of reset” screen before the papers started so instead of actually studying for my papers, I painstakingly redrew the “proof of reset” screen pixel by pixel in the TI-84s pixel art program and stored all my notes in it.
Hannah Ingram 6 years ago
the school I went to you had to leave it on the screen prior and have them press the reset button.
Jane Alexander 6 years ago
Do kids take nothing away from school except how to cheat? Happy minimum wage job (if you can get one) Learn from your teachers, if only what Not do.
robman1ok1 Hernandez 2 years ago
I doubt that many CEOs of fortune 500 companies, politicians and a recent president would agree with you.
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I was a TA for anatomy and physiology. The professor would ask for me to sit in on finals to prevent cheating. One kid came in with a vitamin water. No worries. Half way through the test the professor noticed they kept turning the bottle and squinting. This goes on for another twenty minutes. Professor goes up. Grabs the vitamin water bottle and rips off the label. It had a crib sheet written. On the back. The students had gone to the effort to make a fake vitamin water bottle label and write notes in the back. The professor was impressed by the creativity and decided to give the student a 0 and not report them to the academic committee.
robman1ok1 Hernandez 2 years ago
I'm guessing that his little brother ran with this idea and he was the one that did the label on the Snapple bottle.
#19
During a spelling test: "Miss, how do you spell piano?" The spelling word was piano. Teacher went on autopilot and started spelling the word.
Nostalgic Hyena 6 years ago
If only my teachers in elementary school were like this.. (then again, I usually did really well at spelling tests)
Ingrid Foreman 2 years ago
In fourth grade, my school had a system where if you talked in class your name would be written on the board. Once during a spelling test, a student talked in class and the teacher wrote the spelling word on the board instead of the student's name by accident. It took him five minutes to notice :)
Vlad Horobet 6 years ago
We had a history teacher that on autopilot used to help us during the tests by answering the questions without knowing it (she was kinda old). For example, if the question was "which battle was held in 1843 at X location? " we were asking her "miss, in 1843 at x location the "random battle name" was won by y party? " only to get scolded by her telling "no you fools, in 1843 at x location was the "right answer battle", you're mixing the dates". And sometimes she was completing the answer by giving details about the random battle.
robman1ok1 Hernandez 2 years ago
We're you in a juvi facility? because if not I'm pretty sure she didn't call you fools.
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In high school I was in a computer based learning program and our science tests were taken digitally. However, they used a program where once you entered the test your entire screen was locked into the test and the only way to exit it was to click the finish button on the test or turn off your computer which effectively did the same thing. Another feature of the program was that once you were in the test, anything you had in your clipboard (copied text) was not able to be pasted into the answer sections on the test to prevent the only other way to cheat. However, after creating my own classroom at home , making fake tests and playing with the program to figure out a way to cheat I realized that it would allow you to copy things from inside the test and paste them elsewhere in this test. The developers of the program also did not take into account the sign in screen where you have to find the test and enter it. Long story short, I could copy my entire page of notes I had taken on the test material, paste it into the section where I would enter my login information. Then recopy it, enter the test and paste it again in one of the answer sections, using it to answer every question and then deleting it before clicking 'finish'.
Dilly Millandry 6 years ago
I'd really love to know how that turns out for you. 🤞
Load More Replies... Jane Alexander 6 years ago
I suggest classes; 'Morals 101' and 'Common Sense 101' That'll be the first step in straightening out this mess. Why all these slick ways to avoid learning and how smart is that really? (from your school to you) As Mantan Moreland sang it; "You only cheat yourself, Hah, when you cheat on me"
Audrey Rasmussen 2 years ago
My 7th grade science teacher said we could use google for tests, because we will have that resource in the future, and we still gotta understand what google says, and my science teacher now says all tests are open notes because there is no reason to memorize stuff when we'd have google right there
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My girlfriend works for a dental exam company which are obviously super high stakes exams. Since the exams are worldwide they have actually found people from one time zone paying people from another time zone to email questions to them right before the exam starts.
Grumble O'Pug 6 years ago
Clearly you have _zero_ clue how competitive dental school actually is.
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Pinky TutuTwo 6 years ago
That's what I want in a dentist: Someone who couldn't pass the dental exams without cheating. Ugh.
Petya 6 years ago
Reminds me how one time in university I went to take a mid-term test with an earlier group (the assistant allowed it). My colleagues asked for help, so after that I went and explained what was on the test and how to solve it to a group of them and they went to take the same test with another group later.
#22
A classmate was printing the answers on his paper in a veeeerry pale grey so that it barely can be seen. Still got caught because the teacher noticed him reading an empty sheet.
#23
In elementary/middle school we had to write a paragraph each week featuring all the vocabulary words included in that unit. One clever kid wrote something along these lines: “One day kid’s name had to write a paragraph for English class. He sat down, picked up a pen and used these words in it: proceeds to list out all the words.” The teacher only let it go once because she never saw that happen until then.
Scott Lloyd (Sidewinderscott) 6 years ago
That sounds like something I would do if I needed to. My writing skills were poor but I would find the easiest way to do the least even if it took way longer to figure out. Now I just thank spell check and computers and voice recognition to do any writing any more. Some day I might finish college via voice recognition.
why not 6 years ago
the point system my English teacher used made it possible to get a passing grade on a writing assignment without actually writing the report. I never tried it because the reports were easy, it was the foot notes and documentation i despised. I had to point it out of course. She said she would change it if anyone else noticed. I don't know if anyone ever did.
#24
In a lot of my college courses I wasn't allowed to use anything higher than a TI84. So I took the guts of my TI89 and swapped it into my TI84. Never got caught.
karinagoldfish 6 years ago
At first I thought "higher" was "highlighter" so i was like- wow a higher model highlighter, good job *sarcastically*
#25
When I was in high school I bought a pen where each time you clicked the message inside would change. I took it apart and was able to tape paper over the tube and fit things that I would need to help me on some quizzes and tests.
#26
I have not tried this method yet and I do not think anyone did but there is a certain level of hertz in sound that only people below a certain age can hear, there are devices who play that kind of sound so if the teacher is old she/he wont hear the sound, using that the students can communicate with morse code and such. I thought about this and this is not very practical or useful but its very creative so i thought sharing my idea.
Emma B 6 years ago
So, when I was in high school (just over 10 years ago) someone had figured this out and started just playing the sound in class to make everyone laugh. It was a science class, so my teacher decided to use the situation and totally abandoned the lesson plan for the day and moderated a class discussion on generation gaps and where we can go in the future. It was pretty awesome!
Enuya 6 years ago
Wow, what a passion! It's so great that there still are teachers like this one!
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Nataliia Portillo 6 years ago
We used to use those as ringtones in middle school/ high school haha
hashwadoobies 6 years ago
I'm 37 years old and can hear that level. I asked my hearing tester last week why I can hear it but none of my adult friends can (they play it outside of the McDonald's by my house to deter teenage loiterers) he said he's never met an adult that can hear it. I guess I'm just that immature :) Sidenote: for any adult who has never heard it, it literally makes you want to jump out of your skin. Its the worst sound ever.
Judith Wilson 4 years ago
This subject is losing creativity, and bordering on deceit and subversive actions to avoid understanding where you belong in this world and what you can accomplish to make it better.
#27
Used a text file on one of the original iPods. Teacher was fine with "listening to music" during tests. Made my life so much easier lol.
Natasha Forchione 6 years ago
Eating, listening to music....what schools allow this when students take test???
NeedFood 6 years ago
Right?!?!?! We're not even allowed to have water bottles with us. Not just the clear ones, the opaque ones too.
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Izuku Midoryia 6 years ago
what the actual f**k kind of school does that s**t? it is sure as hell not ASFL in huntsville
#28
Writing down math formulas and putting them in the instructions insert of the calculator. More recently, kids will put the answers on their smart watches. It's to the point where I make all students removes their watches and place them on the classroom counter before the test starts.
Whawhawhatsis 6 years ago
There are advantages to having figured out creative cheating ways when you're young: When you get older and have kids, you know what to watch for so they can't get away with the same stuff you did!
Amanda Santoyo-Cortés 6 years ago
15 years ago, i use my casio baby G, to save the answers in the directory mode...
Alexandru Bucur 6 years ago
Oh man, now I feel old. The only cheating I ever did with a watch was back in high-school when I taped a crib sheet written in tiny mirrored font to the underside of the desk and used the display of my digital watch as a mirror to read it.
#29
I can name the worst, and I’ve definitely shared it before, but it wasn’t my student, it was a friend’s. She’d downloaded a worksheet for the kids to do while she was in a meeting of some sort. Kids found the worksheet’s answer sheet online and proceeded to copy the answers. Last answer said “student responses will vary.” And that’s what one kid wrote as his answer. Other times you’ll see one kid misspells something or gets an answer wrong, and everyone who copied from him has the same error.
Rose the Cook 6 years ago
Have frequently had just the three words, "answers will vary", handed in as the answer to a 300 word essay assignment because that was the answer in the back of the textbook.
felixreychman 6 years ago
I once caught a student (17yo) cheating this way. He had copied a wrong answer off of his friend, in detail. 100 students had varitaions of correct answers, and he and his friend had exact copies that were not even remotely correct. This was demonstrated to him in front of his parents.
Bec 1 year ago
I had a girl insist that of course her paper was exactly the same as her sister's, since it was the same assignment.
Load More Replies... ChiveChilly 6 years ago
Tbh, I sometimes would find the answers online to a worksheet. My teacher told us we could use any resource available to us, so I did. Also, I made life easier for my little brother by saving all my completed and corrected tests and homework 😉
Dilly Millandry 6 years ago
I cheated in primary school on a maths question that I just couldn't work out. Checked the teacher wasn't looking and looked at the answer the person next to me had. She got the answer right and I got the answer wrong even though it was identical. I don't know if the teacher just knew I copied but then why not talk to me and deal with it properly? I thought I got it wrong so still didn't know how to do that sum (not that I can remember the sum now).
#30
Physics professor posted the answers to the homework online after it was due. Thing was, he was just making the existing pages visible and the URLs followed a simple and predictable format. If you knew the URL you could look at it before it was made public. http://fakeaddress.physics.edu/physics/HomeWork001 002 003, etc...
Troux 6 years ago
I would love to be the teacher and post the wrong answers on that URL until it was time to publish them.
SanchaTheSeeker 6 years ago
Now you can tell who didn't do it properly and truthfully!
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I used my programmable calculator to write a program for every possible math/physics question that gave me every step of the problem solving sequence along the way. They always said show your work...
Biana Weatherford 6 years ago
This actually sounds like an Advanced Student. It's almost more important to know how to FIND the information than to actually KNOW the information.
Whawhawhatsis 6 years ago
I had a couple of teachers who only did open book exams because they realized that knowing how to find the information is more useful than just pounding it into your head by rote memorization, after which it departs as quickly as it arrives. There's no way to cheat on an open book exam (except straight copying, of course), so it prevents cheating but can actually be a LOT of work. Like this person's work with the calculator -- that was probably FAR more work than just taking the test straight!
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#32
So, as a teacher the smartest way I "cheat" is by giving the kids a notecard and telling them they can put whatever cheat sheet stuff on there they want. It tricks them into actually studying for their math tests. Also a pro tip from a math teacher; most students don't know how to study for math and this is why they struggle. Think of studying math like practicing an instrument. You need to "learn a piece" by practicing multiple problems from skill set. If you aren't practicing at least 8 - 18 problems at least every day to two days then you're never going to get past the little mistakes and missteps which have probably plagued you.
The Phantom of the Opera 6 years ago
Same! I once got yelled at by a sub because I was already having a mental breakdown, was sleep deprived and sick, at the time I asked my friend for help on a problem that I didn't understand because I was absent when we learned how to solve it. The sub walked up to me, acted like I was disrupting the whole class, despite the fact that she was drawing more attention to herself than I had, and asked what exactly was so hard about it in the most condescending tone. I then made the fatal mistake of saying "number junk", she yelled at me, I was already in tears, I'm surprised I didn't get a detention. To this day I still hate math.
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Jill 6 years ago
Interestingly enough by allowing students to use a cheat sheet, it lowers actual cheating between students on the test. Students feel more confident and have a better idea of what they do and don’t know. It is one of my favorite things to do as a math and physics teacher. The other is to give them a very carefully redacted version of the test to study from. It also lowers stress before a test.
#33
I'm not a teacher, but i heard a story from my friend of a teacher who caught two kids cheating through morse code by blinking.
Olivia Matovich 6 years ago
That is possibly the sneakiest way of cheating I have ever heard of!
#34
When my dad was in high school, he used to write out the answers on a piece of paper and tape them to the ceiling. Before the test, he and his friends would pretend to pray by looking up and putting their hands together. Would also tape the answers next to the pencil sharpener. Teacher never caught on, and thought it was heartwarming how my dad and his friends would pray together before a test.
Crouching_Penn_Hidden_Teller@yahoo.com 6 years ago
I can't believe the teacher never bothered to look
The Girl on Fire 6 years ago
I seriously doubt that the teacher never noticed an answer sheet taped to the wall.
#35
My sister in law is a teaching assistant at her kids school. Her youngest daughter (My niece) was 7 at the time. She stole the test the night before, pretended it was homework and had her mom "help her with her homework" then sneaked the answers in to the test. One of the other kids caught her, let the teacher know and my SIL, who was overseeing test conditions, died inside when she realised it was the homework sheet that she'd filled out.
Mechelle Freeman 6 years ago
A 7 year old stealing tests and cheating already??? Where did she learn to do that, and why would she need to? No test in the first or second grade is that hard.
Matthew Valentine 6 years ago
To a first or second grader it feels a lot harder.
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Bingyu Hu 3 years ago
im 10 and im in band so basically theres this music quiz that didnt affect the grade (i play drums) and my friend played flute she also plays piano well i used to play piano but now i dont so bummer i forgot everything well it was a substitute and she told us to sit at the tables corner so we were facing each other she was dumb enuf to do dat and my friend helped me cheat heheh but i didnt finish the test ":(" well that was first time i cheat btw not lying my sub met ariana grande and kobe bryant
#36
A classmate broke the screen and keyboard of his calculator and hid his cellphone in it, so it couldn't be seen from the teacher's position. The teacher approached him from behind and caught him tho.
Just another user... 6 years ago
W-wait. You were allowed to use a CALCULATOR for a TEST?!? HOW DOES THAT WORK???
Aileen 6 years ago
Yeah, usually in a more advanced math class. Some science classes, depending on the topic, allow you to use a calculator as well. Physics and Chemistry for example.
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Lilly Cole 6 years ago
Starting around eight grade you can at most schools if you're doing grade level math. I started in the sixth grade though since I'm in gifted and we do 2 grade levels ahead. I live in the US
#37
I had class in the AM with a kid who was a TA for my physics class the afternoon before (weird period system at my old school). He would tell me the answers to app tests he had graded the day before and I would write them in black ink on the side of the sole of my black boots. I would then sit with my leg bent with my foot on my knee and read the answers during the test. You couldn't see them unless the light hit the ink just right. After the test I would just lick my finger and smudge the answers out.
@Daisychain 5 years ago
If you have a pretty old teacher, one that doesn't understand technology that well, than all you have to do for online homework where it will tell you if it it finished or not, like quizlet where you just have to complete something online and it shows up as 95% done, 40% done, FINISHED, etc, all you have to do is us a program or even word or something where you can paste photos and white out the 95%, 40% etc, find a decently close font, and put the word FINISHED where it should go. Works every time. And then when they say that they see you have not completed it, you just say, "I took a screenshot of it when I finished, would you like to see it?" Then you show it to them, and they just think that it showed up as unfinished because of a malfunction.
#38
Not a teacher but here are the methods I used back in the day: I wrote formulas on those pens that had roll out calendars. Almost got caught when I accidentally lost my grip and the calendar rolled back in the pen in such a loud way that my classmates looked at me. I also wrote formulas on my clothes and body, the hem of my shirt and the part of my legs that gets covered by a sock. I put a couple of chapters on the notebook app on the old Blackberry. I did this by hand which involved me copying straight from the book to my phone. Put answers in the song lyrics in my iPod. But I didn't do this frequently, I forgot why, it was either because my school had cracked down on technology (phones, iPods, laptops) or I just had a hard time scrolling with the click wheel. We'd straight up swap papers. I think I only did it during Trig because during exams we were arranged alphabetically and I was seated next to this dude who was really good at math. I was afraid of doing this but the fact that we were so close to each other made it less scary so I did it. The only time I got caught was when this new teacher noticed that I kept taking out my handkerchief which had a 1x1 inch piece of paper that had some formulas. In hindsight, if I pulled a bit of sleight of hand I would've never been caught. The funny thing is, the year before, I cheated on a test with two letter sized papers.
Petya 6 years ago
I had accounting classes for a years in in high school - professional economics school. I was good in it, the guy sitting next to me too. So we usually did most of our assignments on our own and carefully helped each other if one of us didn't know something. We didn't get caught.
Jane Alexander 6 years ago
Wow, these kids go through a lot of work to keep from doing any work. Whut?
#39
As a student, we used to wear uniforms and leather shoes. As mine's a beater pair, i usually write on them with black ink pens. And when tests came, i angle it just enough to be seen by sunlight. Also, the edges of our uniform(button down shirts) are filled with formulas.
#40
Music students using music sheets as answers sheet for/from other student. Notes equals the same as the answer for Scranton tests
#41
Not a teacher but one of my friends in high school wrote all the physics equations we needed to know in really tiny font on jolly rancher wrappers.
#42
I had summaries of chemistry and a load of math formulas on my graphic calculator (ti-83 ) and i had a backup on a thumb drive so that i could put it back after a mandatory reset
#43
Not a teacher, but I used to lightly write the answers on a desk before the test with pencil. If someone calls you out on it before the test than you claim that you using the write the material down method of studying and didn't notice that it was marking the desk. After using the necessary material you just rubbed the pencil marks off of the desk thus destroying the evidence.
Agnes Jekyll 6 years ago
spit also erases pencil. Spit on finger, rub--less obvious than erasing
released kraken 6 years ago
Oh i did this in spanish once, didn't get caught cause my teacher really doesn't pay attention
#44
During an AP US History test in high school, we had a question asking about the author of a book. Kid raises his hand and says “Mrs. ______ I read this weekend and I really liked it!” The teacher, obviously forgetting that she had put this question on the test, replies with “Oh! By ? I love that book!” The whole class bursts out laughing but no one says anything because she had just given us the answer to the test question lol.
Uncommon Boston 6 years ago
Freshman year in high school, the teacher couldn't hear loud whispers. Test answers were easy to share. Kinda sad.
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Monika Soffronow 6 years ago
A veritable How To instruction manual on cheating. It could also be called "How to become permanently barred from university if caught". Nothing is for free, you know, except for love, smiles and kind words.
tuzdayschild 6 years ago
Also hugs and samples from the Chinese restaurant if the mall food court.
Load More Replies... Jo Choto 6 years ago
With so much cheating going on, makes you wonder what value these exams have.
r3dd3v1lL 6 years ago (edited)
One time a schoolmate got caught cheating with sheets of paper taped to his leg. Funny thing is it was in high school so he had hairy legs. He winced when the teacher ripped the tape from his leg. /// Another time was on an english test a long time ago. To be honest I wasn't intent on cheating and had most of the answers already, but near the end a girl sitting in the next row and slightly in front me lifted her test in front of her to check her answers and I actually saw one of the answers I didn't get.
Atchaco-Leigh 2 years ago
I had a deaf teacher who had to read lips, students had to breath through their nose so the teacher would know we weren't sharing answers. However I had breathing difficulties and was allowed to breath through my mouth. Cue me saying the answers while barely moving my mouth from it's original position. Never caught.
estimaate 6 years ago
I don't personally cheat on tests, I might cheat on homework if it's really hard. One time though, my friend was gone for a week and missed a test. He was asked to make up the test which he was fine with, but he didn't know any of the material because he's been gone. I'd already gotten my test back and graded, so while I was looking over my answers, i wrote the multiple choice on my arm in pen. My friend then took a picture of my arm with the answers after class, then printed out the answers and looked at them while he took the test. He got and A and neither of us were caught.
Tim Douglass 6 years ago
I guess I was the weird kid. I would rather have failed completely (and it did happen) than cheat on a test. Maybe the integrity my parents taught me from a very young age or something.
A Dyke From The Dreamworld 6 years ago
I made a code: a heart meant the answer was A, a star meant B, a diamond meant C and a rose meant D. I wrote the answers on my hand in this code and everyone assumed I just doodled on my hand to make a fake tattoo
Monika Soffronow 6 years ago
A veritable How To instruction manual on cheating. It could also be called "How to become permanently barred from university if caught". Nothing is for free, you know, except for love, smiles and kind words.
tuzdayschild 6 years ago
Also hugs and samples from the Chinese restaurant if the mall food court.
Load More Replies... Jo Choto 6 years ago
With so much cheating going on, makes you wonder what value these exams have.
r3dd3v1lL 6 years ago (edited)
One time a schoolmate got caught cheating with sheets of paper taped to his leg. Funny thing is it was in high school so he had hairy legs. He winced when the teacher ripped the tape from his leg. /// Another time was on an english test a long time ago. To be honest I wasn't intent on cheating and had most of the answers already, but near the end a girl sitting in the next row and slightly in front me lifted her test in front of her to check her answers and I actually saw one of the answers I didn't get.
Atchaco-Leigh 2 years ago
I had a deaf teacher who had to read lips, students had to breath through their nose so the teacher would know we weren't sharing answers. However I had breathing difficulties and was allowed to breath through my mouth. Cue me saying the answers while barely moving my mouth from it's original position. Never caught.
estimaate 6 years ago
I don't personally cheat on tests, I might cheat on homework if it's really hard. One time though, my friend was gone for a week and missed a test. He was asked to make up the test which he was fine with, but he didn't know any of the material because he's been gone. I'd already gotten my test back and graded, so while I was looking over my answers, i wrote the multiple choice on my arm in pen. My friend then took a picture of my arm with the answers after class, then printed out the answers and looked at them while he took the test. He got and A and neither of us were caught.
Tim Douglass 6 years ago
I guess I was the weird kid. I would rather have failed completely (and it did happen) than cheat on a test. Maybe the integrity my parents taught me from a very young age or something.
A Dyke From The Dreamworld 6 years ago
I made a code: a heart meant the answer was A, a star meant B, a diamond meant C and a rose meant D. I wrote the answers on my hand in this code and everyone assumed I just doodled on my hand to make a fake tattoo
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