My favorite cheating story actually happened this last year by my eldest daughter. My daughter is autistic and struggles a lot in normal classrooms so we transferred her back to online school for 8th grade. She had a big project essay that she was supposed to write all about her favorite things and why. I help her out with the outline and was literally in the same room with her while she wrote the whole thing. She turns in the assignment and the teacher rejects it saying that she needs to rewrite the whole thing. So she does rewrite it and try to flush it out more, and teacher rejects it again accusing her of cheating because "it's too robotic and people don't actually talk like that." ... except that it was exactly like she thinks and talks and again I was sitting right next to her as she wrote it! My kid was very upset and was trying to argue with the teacher that she actually did write it but teacher was having none of it. Teacher then explains to the whole class that they "can't use ChatGPT to get out of doing the work." A light went off in my kid's head at that point... so she went right over and put her outline into ChatGPT and tell it to make it sound more human, then copied the answer and turned it in. Teacher finally accepted it and used it to show the other kids about the differences between human vs robotic writing 😂
I'm autistic and so is my brother, our parents home-schooled us for our entire lives because we would've had so much trouble like this and a lot worse in school, neither of us could've functioned in that kind of environment. I'm really impressed how quickly your daughter thought to do that! I also can relate a lot to the whole "writing robotically" thing, I've had to consciously work to make my writing more casual on purpose.
I teach IT at tertiary level and we encourage the students to use ChatGPT as a tool to help them in their assignments. I NEVER ask them to write essays, in fact I have a constant struggle getting them to NOT write essays as they've been trained to do all through high school. I'm training them to be in the workforce, and when does anyone ever require an essay in a job! I have them do research and apply it to a given scenario, so even if the use AI to check their writing they need to be able to assess whether it makes sense. They also have to present their work in professional business style reports that are highly scannable, understandable and formatted well (not fancy, just professional). We also have a final written exam with a mandatory minimum pass mark, so if they haven't learned anything from doing the assignments it comes out there.
With several of these where they're just writing down the information in any way (rather than copying someone else's work or exploiting code or attention), they ARE studying, and that's what confuses me lol You're still reviewing the information, and probably for hours too depending on the method. They're literally just doing the method where you rewrite your notes.
Instead of morse code they should just use like 1 tap with your shoe = a and 2 taps = b and so on. Also most of these work for basically every test not just one specific
I was actually falsely accused of cheating a lot as a kid cause I didn’t do homework. So many of my teachers believed that you couldn’t test well enough without doing homework.
As a student I never did homework and as a teacher, I never give it, they just have to complete whatever they didn't finish in class. I got hauled up by a parent saying I was disadvantaging her child by not assigning homework! No studies have every shown it makes any difference.
There are degrees to laziness. There's the lazy but gets the job done properly to good enough. There's the lazy half ass the task while waiting for the rest of the team to carry his sorry ass. Then there's just the can't be bothered to do this.
My high school math teacher told me that she once had a student cheat by writing the quadratic formula on the ground beneath his desk, and she didn't notice until after the test was handed in. But the formula on the ground was written incorrectly, so the kid got a 0, and the teacher turned him in anyway. Years later, the teacher was shopping and said the student came up to her while he was working in the store and said she ruined his life
Story 56: The blue lens makes the background of the paper blue and the blue ink invisible. The red lens makes the background of the paper red and the red ink invisible. Closing one eye or the other will reveal one set or the other set of notes.
I didn't cheat on tests, but I did teach my friends in High School how to write in Futhark Runes so we could pass notes to each other. One of the meaner teachers took it from me and was pissed she couldn't read it. She told me to stop and I did, in her class.
In college we had a class on diversity and multiculturalism in the classroom (this was over 20 years ago, btw) and one of our guests in class was a deaf student at university. He told us that he taught his high school friends SEE (Signing Exact English, aka English on the Hands), and they would sign across the room during lectures. As ed majors, we all thought it was hilarious, because he said the teacher wa dumbfounded on how to tell them to stop, since they weren’t disrupting class with noise. I don’t know what their teachers did for tests, although I think he said they were good about not cheating by signing during exams.
For the English class we had to read "The Hobbit". In this book, there is a verse that is translated from Tolkien runes into english. Using that are a key, you can translate english back into runes. Guess who had a pen with lots of rune graffiti which translated back into useful exam notes?
None of these cheat “hacks” would ever work in high school courses, yet alone college- expect the one person “accidentally” turning in the wrong paper. How did anyone get away with any of this is just so fascinating. Also this is so much more work than actually studying, and much much more risky. Edit: Actually writing in Elvish, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones or any nerd language is hella smart. Unless you have a cool teacher who’s an even bigger nerd. I’m also shocked UnderSparked hasn’t seen any LoTR 😮 and the colored coded bracelet is genius.
With the whole hearing spectrum thing I have ridiculously good hearing. You know those rechargeable battery chargers? They make a really high pitched noise, and it drives me insane because high pitched noises give me a splitting headache. So not only is it risky because of the hearing spectrum, but it could really hurt some kids who can hear it. I remember one class I couldn’t do anything because some idiots brought high pitched whistles into the classroom that the teachers couldn’t hear, and of course every time they’d sound off, I’d have to immediately drop everything and plug my ears or else I’d feel like my head was gonna explode.
I am a nurse but in college I had to take stupid courses like music education to “broaden my education”. As a result, I often ended up with multiple courses that required me to write multiple page essays. I just outsourced them to an essay writing site from India. They would ask for MY personal stance on the matter and write the essay per my views, and they’d send me their essay. I’d proof read it, clean it up for grammar and submit it. I only had one teacher call me on it. And that was because I’m academically a superior writer to the person who wrote the paper. I used the excuse that I had 3 other essays to write and therefore didn’t take the time to focus full attention on her essay and she accepted my excuse. I felt bad, but hey. If I’m a nurse, what use do I have for the hypocratic method of argumentation? NONE.
This makes sense enough to me, it's not like you were cheating on things you had to learn for nursing. I seriously wish that schools would let people have more agency to choose what they learn and what they don't.
@karinalumen9722 I completely understand having a little bit of everything, but to the extent that or profit colleges drive this is in excess. It’s nothing more than a money grab. I shouldn’t have to take 4 semesters of government, 4 semesters of writing, 4 semesters of literature in order to be a nurse. And judging from your atrocious grammar and spelling errors in your comment, maybe YOU could stand to go back and take a few extra courses since high school clearly failed you. 🙄
As a teacher, not only did I do story 2. But I also used to give my students questions to ask me so they would ask really thought provoking questions. As payment I would give them an A on the next quiz.
In sixth grade, my handwriting was so bad that the teachers and school administration in their infinite wisdom decided that it was better to have me do all my homework on an ipad unstead of working with me on my handwriting and none of them thought to shut of the spell check feature in thw settings. I didn't realize that the spell check feature was on right away, but when i did i realized i had been cheating on my spelling tests. I didn't shut spell check off or turn myself in to the teachers for cheating. I still feel guilty about it sometimes, but then i think what the teachers didn't know couldn't hurt them.
Not an exam cheat, but it's in the same spirit.... We had an English teacher that used a hearing aid. He was really strict about students talking in his class. So what did we do? We taught ourselves basic sign language. Just the alphabet. It was slow, but he couldn't "hear" us say anything! We got a lot of hard looks from him as he tried to work out if we were making fun of his hearing aid....
Story 36 was amazing, but that’s definitely something I would’ve planned ahead of time with my friends. Never give details in the story but have them planned for any questions you could get asked
In middle school I was cheating by writing things on my desk in a weird characer set that I made up on the spot, and it looked purely decorative. I also helped other students by just whispering names of places that we had to identitify on a map, because our teacher couldn't hear exactly well. My favoutire sceme however has to be when I faked being on the verge of throwing up, ran to the bathroom and searched the answers on my phone, then washed my face to be cerdible and gone back into class. By the way, I also had a second phone just to give to the teacher. Now I'm in university, and for most of the subjects someone has a copy of the tests of last year, and also a guide on how to solve them. There are also messenger groups where some people braver or lazier than me help eachother during tests, but I never used it because I'm bad at hiding my phone.
For Story 25, I wonder if any students listened to the Animaniacs Presidents of the US song during the test. Also, I'm surprised the teacher even allowed music during tests. As that student proved, it gave ample opportunity to cheat.
2:45 That is what i do sometimes when i dont know an answer, I wait until later when I'm finished with all the questions to solve it because sometimes the answer is in a different question.
One of my college professors often gave quizzes. He was fairly relaxed on those, and often they were "open book, open note" and occasionally explicitly "open friend". One particular quiz was nasty: If you messed up the first problem of 10, you got 9 incorrect or only partly correct (the 10th was unrelated)--but if you got it, you had pretty clear sailing through those 9. And, this one wasn't explicitly "open friend". At one point, he left the room. Someone near the front, once the door closed behind him, pipes up "Did anyone not get A on 1?" General silence. The fun part? In a ten-question multiple-choice quiz, ABCDEABCDE. Tests were definitely not "open friend", though.
High school chemistry. We all blatantly cheated. For example, some had full on cheat sheets in public view, or had the textbook in their lap. Our teacher would catch us cheating , but rather than exposing us or punishing us with bad grades or worse, she would simply shake her head and say “this is so unethical” and walk away. We all got A’s in the class. At the end of the year, a lot of people in the class failed the state mandated Standards of Learning Test where cheating was not possible. Ironically, in college it turns out I was really good at Chemistry and became a tutor.
On a vocabulary test in latin nearly everyone cheated. Most just had their open book in front of them. The only kid that got caught had the book in their lap. The teacher called himself “Detectiv teacher’s name” after catching that kid.
I went to the emergency room and got a doctor's note. When I had an illness then I scanned it with my computer. Use photoshop and add Doctor's notes. Anytime, I wanted to call off of work. And the beautiful thing about it is is even if they tried to call and verify they can't because it's a hipa privacy violation The only way. They can is if you sign the paperwork stating that they can talk about your heath with the hospital. they We're so good, in fact , the sad thing is that I shouldn't have had to do that. But the American workforce and jobs in general. Don't give you enough days off when you need them I was able to use it to make some for my friends.And they were able to get days off when they needed to get days off
I’ll call myself out here but back in 10th grade I used to write notes in the barcode/price tag of my pen with a very thin fine liner (0.05) and hey never got caught
When I was taking my GCSEs, I realised that the copyright notices for any extracts or images licensed for the exam papers would be printed with an identifying description on the very last page. These descriptions would often include the actual answers to the questions in the exam itself (such as a diagram of photosynthesis being identified as "Photosynthesis diagram"). Being the honest student I was, I added a note on any and all relevant exams to notify the boards of this obvious design flaw, and they now have such notices in a separate booklet only available after the exam period has concluded.
My freshmen year of college, my chem 101 professor was super strict about academic integrity. One day on a minor homework assignment, the kid no one liked to talk to ask me for help (I was the only one that was ever nice to him) and since I was busy, I just sent him a picture of my copy of the assignment. I explicitly told him do not copy, just use the answers for a reference. Bro copied my answers verbatim. I nearly got expelled, and had to literally beg to remain at that university, all over a single question on a single minor homework assignment. Needless to say, bro, was too ashamed to talk to me again.
In order to help students you should always write an exam where questions lead them to the write answers and are sequential. Another thing to do is have the questions follow the outline of our lectures. Exams are to assess your knowledge and lots of people just need a mental jog.
My school had small classes, so student's desks often were against the teacher's desk. I often sat at such a desk. During history test I used the fact our teacher kept a giant leather bag on the desk to cheat. I simply placed my history book in front of her bag and copied dates and names directly from the book. When she got up, I quietly closed the book and laid down on my desk - I'm so near-sighted I had to almost touch the desk with my face to read and write. Also my friend who was blind covered all the sound with his loud braille embosser. He tried to cheat by keeping his binder with notes on his legs under the desk and read it with one hand. Unfortunately it slid off his knees and hit the floor...
I only cheated once when I forgot to study for an essay test. I could see a neighbor’s answers and just rewrote them - and because I am a good writer I improved their answers and got a slightly higher grade.
Ok. As a teacher and parent, thank you for cluing me in to what I may have to deal with in my classroom. That being said, I teach band, sooo…. Not a whole lot of written testing going on. Some, yes, but not a ton. Your test is - play the music. Kind of hard to cheat there; you either practiced and know it or you didn’t and don’t. Also, though I don’t let my kids use um…notes…in band (well, I do but different a definition of notes), I always liked our NYS Regents science exams. They don’t fart around and make you memorise all the formulas in chemstry, biology, and physics. They GIVE you a reference sheet for the test. The formulas aren’t labelled, so you still have to know what’s what so you can use the right one, but you don’t have to waste your time memorising every one and risk getting the answer wrong because you mixed up variables or something. I also think that open note/open book finals are great for classes like history because you need to know where to look, but you don’t have to have every confounded date crammed into your brain. Would have been great in university for music history. No one remembers every composer’s birth and death date or what exact year each piece was written. That’s why many of my professors gave us a 10 year margin on either side of the actual date. True story from 20 century music history: our professor was, let’s say easy going (I heard stories from classmates that they saw him smoking weed before class once, so there’s that). In music history we usually had to listen to a segment of a piece, name the composer, approximate date of composition or c9mposer’s birth/death dates, and then justify your answer in essay form (details about the music/composer you wrote down). On one test- Impressionism- we’re all sitting there, listening to the Debussy segment and he suddenly says, “You guys want a hint? Do you want a hint?” So the piece is called Nuage (Clouds), and what does prof do? He picks up the chalk and draws a cloud on the board. Everyone in the class got at least that one piece correct. The dumb thing was that Debussy’s music is fairly distinctive, so most of us already knew it was his piece, so all he did was give us the exact title.
Growing up, I loved to read. Still do. At one point in my school days, I was reading a book a day. I never had to really study for very long for practically any class, so never had to cheat. I also went to church and was a member of the usual youth post-church group on Sunday evenings. At one such meeting the discussion was cheating, and my fellow church group members could not believe: 1) I never cheated, and 2) I didn't know how to cheat. They proceeded to try to teach me how to cheat. At a 'Christian' meeting. In a 'Christian' church. It was not too much after that I decided I would go to church for the singing (I love to sing), but the messages were obviously not biblical, and hypocritical, so did not pay them much attention.
During my sophomore year of high school, I was in an English class where we had a student teacher. We used iPads at my school that our actual English teacher understood how to use well, but he did not. We had an assignment where we had to submit a video interview with a member of our families. Most interviews were about 15-20 minutes long due to the amount of questions we were provided. We had to submit the interviews to a dropbox in the app that we did our school work on. For some reason, I had completely forgot about this project. I had not done the interview or any other work regarding the project. I also had the class first period, so I was freeeeaking out. Turns out all the videos were way too long and took too much time to submit and load. Most teachers would’ve known this already, but he was student teacher that had no clue. He let all of the students with this problem have an extra day so we could upload the video on a private RUclips channel first, then submit the video. I pretended that my video was not uploading because it was too long and he gave an extension as well. That night, I shot the video with my dad and pretended it was originally due the next day. My project turned out to be pretty good and well edited so I got an A! I thanked any powers that may exist for the technology struggles.
I had a Spanish 2 teacher who would refuse to go to the back half of the room. He would always expect a student to hand out papers all the way into the back and would stretch as far as he could so he didn’t have to step in the back of the room if you put nothing on your homework or test or even the exams, you would still earn 100 just for showing up for the class. The only way you got a 50% was it you did not put your name on the paper zeros and everybody passed and that was not around next year.
ALWAYS check for sample exams in the library for practise reasons. After checking the Physics exams in the library, I found out that for the past 5 years, my teacher set, were all the same. I was surprised to see that the ONLY thing different on each test was the stated year of the exam. Not only were the questions always the same type, in the same order, the values, numeric details were always the same, giving the same answer, year after year. So, with my simple programable calculator, I just stored all the answers. If I didn't know the answer in the exam, I would fudge some type of restating the question and then plock down the answer. Almost every answer was correct and a couple of them had big red question marks with the word "Working" to show that the "steps" written down couldn't had been used to work out the answer.
I was someone who was known to almost always wear a hoodie, except near the end of spring. In my hoodie I ran two sets of earbuds, one into the hood for relaxed listening to music during lunch or study halls, and one into my left sleeve for listening to music during class. I'd also normally lean my head on my hand, which made it near impossible to see the earbud and wire. I never cheated, but also never got caught listening during tests.
Back in my school days, the teachers added a year to our IB program as it was the first time it was offered, they wanted to make sure it would run smoothly so we were a type of practice group and would get full credit upon completion. We were grouped together not by age because of the needed to be at a certain number of students to be funded so there were a few siblings in the class. Unfortunately my sister, pain in the butt type, and I were in the same class. First year no problem, second year ended w/me shot putting one of the chairs across the classroom at her head for one in a series of insults she would shout at me, thinking she was untouchable being mommy’s little angel. Dont fuck w/a bear. I ended up staying back a year to get away from her. Interesting thing about the second year was they duplicated all the course materials and tests from the last year, I caught on by midterms and told them that if they wanted to use last year’s materials then they needed to change the order of the questions. So there I was doing the same thing over again for a third time and I had the questions to the first years midterms as they gave them to us to give us the chance to see where we went wrong, to correct our errors and learn from our mistakes, etc etc. I looked over the scantron saw a waving pattern in the answers. I almost memorized that pattern. When midterms came around again, I walked up to the teacher’s desk w/my scantron and pencil in hand. I asked them, “please tell me you changed the order of the questions this time” and got the reply, “I am not at liberty to discuss that with/you”. I put down my scantron quickly went over it w/my pencil, handed it in, and walked out. I got 93% on that midterm. I was done in about 4 minutes and all of my finals were required to be oral reports w/a minimum of 3 teachers on hand to witness my answers. I still scored in the high 80s to mid 90s on most of my finals. They could have just reordered the questions and had less of a problem from me, I protested the lack of education being taught for 7 weeks, showing up for one class every other week until the threat of expulsion was on the table.
if you know what your essay question is beforehand, there are ways of memorizing a prewritten essay verbatim (personally, I'm fond of using Anki and making flashcards of the sentence before and the sentence after). For reference, I was able to memorize the entire council of Elrond scene from the Fellowship of the Ring novel (16000 words) in about 2 weeks with 9 hours of work 2 years ago and some revamping every few weeks to months afterwards (in total I spent 15 or so hours). I still remember 98% of it and can recite it in about 2 hours
I literally created a language with its own alphabet. It looked a lot like those old cuneiform scripts. I usually arranged it in geometric forms so it looked like just doodles. I was able to write entire chapters and formulas. I wrote them on my table, the windows frames even on the blackboard. I was reading the whole answers just in front of the teacher and they never noticed, they just thought my scripts were graffiti or some idiotic new artistic fad my classmates were into at the time. I still use this language when I run my D&d campaigns. I also have some words tattooed in my arm as a reminder of the lengths I would go instead of following logic path.
Got a 100% in one of those "we only give 95 on essays" classes after the adjunct offered me "either take the zero or we go to the dean" it was a 100 level poli-sci class I was taking as a college senior, and when I pointed out I already had a minor degree in classical studies and had actually had to translate the relevant section from Plato, as well as my cited sources from other classical scholars, the "this is plagiarized, 0%" went away by the end of the day. Dude apologized and said as it's a super low level class he's pretty hasty to assume plagiarism. But yeah, best way of cheating: have a relevant degree already.
My Cheating story happened when I was in 11th grade. Some students pass on their answers in a small paper by letting them borrow their eraser, with the paper pressed on it on the back to conceal it. Our method was also writing it in small papers and excuse ourselves to go to the bathroom at random times one by one with me or my classmate first to put the paper on our agreed spot. Then the other student will go to the bathroom and get a copy of the answers.
Someone managed to social engineer their way into getting the national standardised test early. This is why there is a sealed B version of it every year ready to be shipped
This reminds me of when I took 10th grade chemistry as a senior cuz I hated chem, but it was a requirement to graduate. There were two other seniors in the class and the tests were always split into 3 parts. Multiple choice, long answer, and math/diagrams. Each of us would study for one portion of the exam and we would all sit at the same table on class anyway. Once we all finished our known sections we would rotate our test and work on each others. We even learned to copy each others handwriting so it would be harder to detect. Those girls are how I passed chem.
In middle school I was in a class where we all (and I mean ALL) came up and agreed to a cheat method. It only worked on multiple choice questions but this teacher only used scantrons, so it worked. Essentially, if you know the answer to a question you would tap a corner of your desk. Like A-top left, B-bottom left, C-top right, D-bottom right. After the first time we figured out we needed to know the question number you were on. The tests never had more than 50 questions, so we came up with a form of sign language. 1-5 a normal tap with that number extended with your right hand. 6-10 same but whole holding your pencil right side up in the tapping hand. 11-15 holding your pencil with the point out. 16-20 hold your pencil in your other hand right side up. 21-25 flipped pencil in opposite hand. 26-30 starts back over with your left hand. So on to 50. We had more than a 95% average as a class (rare miscue or someone thinking they knew the answer and didn’t).
As an engineer, pro tip, look over formulas right before a test and right away write them down on the front of the test at the bottom or on the back of the exam. I would do that and no teacher ever had a problem with it and it helps a lot.
In a Calculus course in college, circa 2001. Now, I'd taken Calculus in high school, but bombed on the placement test (didn't realize when it was scheduled and forgot to study as I barely made it in time). I mostly spent my time in class reading Lord of the Rings. Anyway, we had weekly online quizzes you had to take in the school's dedicated math computer lab. While they were Calc, they were just multiple choice (A, B. C, or D). The teacher warned us that, even though we had unlimited tries for these weekly quizzes, we couldn't just keep taking the tests over and over until we had all the answers. She said she had too many potential questions for the quiz to select from for that to work. *She was wrong.* I got very lazy and would take and retake the quizzes a dozen or two dozen times to brute force it. No, this did *not* help my understanding of Calculus and I paid for being lazy and cocky later.
High school English. We were supposed to read a book and write a book report as part of the test. The format for the final was such that I made up a book and author.
During covid it was pretty easy to cheat on online exams. Most of my classmates wrote their exams together, I went a step farther: I had my mom write my art exam for me. It got 13 points (equivalent to an A- I think). A classmate cheated with google translate on a spanish exam, because the teacher noticed him using grammatical forms, they haven’t learned yet, so she and another teacher had him explain, why he used those forms. He could not explain a single form in the exam. He got a failing grade, but I’m not sure, if he got a “0” or a pity point.
In high school I cheated in the most uncreative way, but I got away with it BECAUSE it was uncreative. I had a tutor who would sit in with me during my online courses (I was homeschooled 10th-12th grade) the way I got away with it, was most days my tutor had to do our lessons virtually because he lived so far away. I would simply show he a full screen during our online meeting with just the school website on it then when he wasn't looking I would switch the full screen to one tab. Then on a completely separate window (to avoid accidentally sharing the tab with my answers on it) would open a tab with a website where students asked for help and the questions would have been answered years prior to me looking for them. And the way I avoided suspicion was by purpose getting one or two questions wrong so I wouldn't get nonstop 100% all the time. My tutor looked for literally every kind of cheating method except the old fashioned way because he thought that 'no one would use something so obvious'. TLDR: I used the classic cheating method and reverse psychology to pass high school as a B+ student
When I was in college, we weren't allowed to use the book or notes on tests in my math class, calculus I believe. So I took the time to program all the formulas into my graphing calculator. Then, when it came time for the test, all I had to do was go look at the list of things I had programed to see the formulas. Never told anyone so I was the only one who did it and never got caught. To be fair, the teacher never told us we couldn't program formulas into the calculator lol
When I was in uni we had a dropbox of as much of the course content as we could. We had slides, tests previous student's projects and in one subject the entire final question bank. Oftentimes the tests would be the same apart from some numbers and the order changed. They eventually found out about it and shut it down a few years after I graduated.
I used to write notes on my upper thigh in high school and just slightly pulled up my shorts to check them. Never got caught bc I made sure they were high up enough to not be revealed when i just sat down
In intro computer science, all our assignments were auto-graded by running our code with test inputs and comparing the result to the correct answer. I created an object that considered itself to be equal to everything. In other news, I used the red+blue ink strategy, except that instead of wearing 3d glasses, I was just able to switch which color text I was reading in my own brain.
Took College Albrega 3 times because I could never remember the formulas when it came to tests. 3rd attempt, my teacher allowed us to use crib sheets for formulas
I did something similar To the Morse code story in high school once. Turns out my math teacher was a nuclear mathematician on a submarine and he knew fooling well what we were doing. But the fact that we learned Morse code was okay with him. He told us that we would only get away with it once the next time he would have to write us up and send us to the office. Coolest dude ever
I discovered a good cheating method while I was doing some experiments. I had a bunch of pencils (non mechanical) and were shaped like triangular prisms. I would write with sharpened pencil onto the sides of the pencil. Since it was pencil written on violet, you can’t see anything unless your eyes were within a feet of the pencil, and that is only if you position the pencil correctly to have the answers show themselves by reflecting the classroom’s light onto the lead. If the teacher noticed anything sus you can just destroy the evidence with a swipe to smudge off the pencil.
there's so much effort being put into cheating that would actually just make these people experts in that subject. The stuff is just boring make learning fun again for everyone. I don't think anyone truly hates to learn it just sucks when you're not interested in the subject.
i am a pre school teacher and dont give test, but this happened to me in college math, my teacher would make two different test for each time and depending where you set in the row is which one you got. i knew the girl next to me was trying to cheat and i just moved a bit over, i was ok at math because i went to math lab to get help and studied. I later told the teacher that the girl next to me was trying to cheat but may not get far because of the different test and we both laughed.
Once (back in 2009) I had a friend, who sucked at physics on the university. I passed the test, but she failed, so she needed to retake it. She secretly taped her earphones (not the wireless ones) to her ear, neck and body and left her hair down, so it was hidden. Then secretly took a snap of the test, then sent it to me (who was at home) via MMS, and called me. We were on the phone during the whole test (1.5 hours), and when I solved a problem, I told her, like 'Listen! Write down: X equals a long, straight horizontal line in the middle of the X, then write the following over the line!...' She was using 2 indigo paper under her original draft paper, so when she (I) was done with a problem, she could gave away 2 copies of the answers, so we could help a lot of people to pass the test that day! (There were approx. 60 students retaking the test!) 😂 Conclusion: Never underestimate engineer students, because we are officially trained to solve every possible problem! 🤣
My husband helped his friend cheat in an astronomy class in high school. His friend would sit behind him and tape the constellations they were being quizzed on to his back. If the teacher walked by, hubby would lean back in his chair and cover the paper, but if the teacher was sitting at his desk up front, hubby would lean forward so his friend could see the cheat sheet. They never got caught.
In elementary my teacher would publicly shame poor grades on spelling and grammar tests to make kids study. Instead, kids got to cheating. I would put the harder words I wasn't confident about on a tiny roll of paper and hide in the hem line of my shorts. Got ratted out by the kid next to me because they were trying to destroy my sticker chart streak.
Oh i have an easy one. I had an online class that required a textbook, and i bought a digital textbook on my tablet. all the tests were done on the computer, and i found out pretty quickly that most of the questions that the professor used came straight out textbook. so when i had the test open on the computer, i would open my textbook on my tablet, and use the "search" function to find keywords from the questions. eventually one of those keywords would be found in a sentence that was identical to the question or answer
In my 10th grade geometry class there were around 6 or 7 kids that I would let cheat off of me on every test. Idk how we never got caught because we really weren't being sneaky at all. One of them would hand me their phone after I finished writing down my answers and I'd snap a pucture. They would then text that picture to the rest of the group and they'd all copy my answers and turn in their tests at different times. In hindsight, I think the teacher knew we were cheating, but just didn't care enough to stop it because there's no way we were actually doing it unnoticed.
There was a teacher who got an award for how he taught a science lesson. He basically taught what a concept was and how it functioned before naming it so you could form an unbiased opinion before dismissing it out of hand because the name had become a buzzword kids were being mislead about. If you know you know. But if you made it to the end of the class and still rejected the concept then at least you knew what you were rejecting.
In chemistry, you had to remember the structure of a number of different elements (?). We had for maths a sheet of stiff plastic with standard shapes, curves, scales, etc. I found that if you scratched lines for the different structures on the plastic, the scratches were hard to see, but the shadows the lines made on a piece of paper were easy to see.
Funny thing is once I would write my cheats on my hands/arms/paper or type it out I wouldn't need it I'd just remember what I wrote. Writing stuff by hand became the way I studied when I got in college many years after I graduated from high school.
We had the same thing happen with a kid snapping a photo of the test and passing it around, except we got caught because the teacher had 1 wrong answers on it. So when like a bunch kids got 98 and the same single question wrong he knew something happened. Looking back, I think he might have purposely had 1 question wrong and tell if kids cheated by stealing the grading sheet.
I would like to take note that the best cheaters are probably kids who have studied but need that extra mental note of what an answer is. Not everyone is good at mentally retaining information. I know I'm not probably cuz my ADHD so even seeing certain things or hearing certain things while can you taking a test will help me during the test I found out later in life that sometimes I remember how to do things with the music I play in the background like my mind makes a mental note of that music and that way to do certain math problems by the sound I hear. I guess it's my audio association with certain skills. I can do them or I can remember how to do them
In the 6 grade our teacher would give us home work 2. Weeks in advance. My friend And I would do home work and I would make copies of it we sold the home work for like a nickel a copie. At the end of the year Ms Jeffers said we were the most cheating class she ever had. This was back in the mid 60 in a country school
I have one i can add. I was.. pretty terrible at higher maths. Managed to pass Calc with a LOT of tutoring, but knew stats was going to be just as bad. When the final exam came i knew i couldn't recall the formulas under pressure. So.. i wrote the important formulas on a square of TP, rolled it into a pen, and pulled it out all sneaky when the exam had started. Quickly copied all the formulas onto the exam page like i was making a reference table, and then ATE the square of TP😂 No evidence, was never caught, and scraped my C- for stats.
In Tech Core in the Navy (electronics, '98) we were not allowed programmable calcs for tests. Because I had spent so long programming mine in class with the formulas I had them memorizes. 2nd person to ace the transistor test, first without a prior degree. 9 min.
Yea, no, I always used to colour code my outfits for whatever the hardest topic was. E.g. flame tests, alphabetise the metals, then wear the linked colours from a-z from my head to my toe.
Story 28: I did something similar. I procrastinated too long on an assignment so I sent it to myself and told the teacher my printer had been out of ink. However, I hadn't done the assignment at all. I changed my computer clock to a few days earlier not long after the assignment was assigned, created a text document, then adjusted my clock back to the current date. I filled the document with the rectangular symbol for when you don't have a font installed and saved that. It had been due on a Friday so I got myself an extra weekend to do the assignment. The reason for adjusting the clock was to cover my bases...if the teacher looked into the file details at any point the "created" and "last saved" dates would seem as though I'd actually done the assignment, not just created a document and spent 30 seconds making it look corrupted.
They don’t get you to learn a bunch of different subjects to help you decide future jobs. At least part of the reason is to teach you how to learn. People who never go to school don’t know how to figure things out on their own a lot of the time.
This proves that it's not about how much you can remember, but how smart you actually are/can be, and how critical thinking wins overall when done right.
I used to be the one giving My answers to a friend when doing múltiple choice (a-e) tests. It was very simple: I would answer the question and then kick softly My friend's foot (them sitting in front of me of course): 1 time for a, 2 for b, 3 for c, 4 for d and 5 for e. Never got caught because the kicks didnt make a sound and tbf there's no way a teacher is looking to people's feet to catch someone cheating. I got away with it probably more than 50 times
7:00 Mores Code: How did they distinguish the dashes from the dots? People have been banging on walls, pipes, floors in slop fiction since I Love Lucy and this has never been explained.
For years my method was: I sat next to someone who was really smart. Answer the first few questions, jump to the last 5 questions. Now, the smart person has done the first few. Check yours. Dont do it identically, answer some how YOU think and have answered. You will finish before them because you already did the last section. Doesnt look like you handed in the test right before them.
The thing with math that i think plagues a lot of people is whenever your education system forces SEVERAL fundamentally new equation types and functions with overwhelmingly difficult questions that go along with it, and stay too vague with the questions making it so that you dont quite know the right equation to use, it all combines to make you feel generally overwhelmed and angry at the whole concept. That was my difficulty. I always wished that when we learned new functions and such the difficulty of questions would start simple, introduce small bits of the equation, go on to introduce more, combine the two, rinse repeat. I would have understood it all SO MUCH BETTER if i couldve recognized some kind of pattern through clustered repetition. Imstead they would give us one extremely complicated (to our untrained minds) equation, then move on to the next completely different sort of equation (the onky way i can really explain this is, imagine you just learned Addition yesterday, then today yheu decide youre done sith addition, youve obviously mastered it after one day, so lets give you Multiplication today, then tomorrow they decide you understand that well enough to get a grasp on Subtraction and Division naturally, so lets throw PEMDAS (full formed equations utilizing each part of PEMDAS) at you despite not only not teaching you 2 integral functions, but also not teaching you how Parentheses or order of operations work, you'll figure it out It was all just too fast, too overwhelming, they never spent enough time on any one part of math and i personally suffered for it, at the time, i couldnt even figure out what exactly my difficulty was, even if i see it so clearly now. Common core really did fuck us all up.
My memory sucked when I was younger especially in high school and had difficulty memorizing the period table of elements. For the ones I could not memorize, I realized I could write them on my *right* ankle and calf and then easily cross my right leg onto my left leg and subtly lift up the bottom of my pants allowing me to see without suspicion because my seat was luckily in the last row - my left side being the edge of the class. In grades 4-6, I often managed to sneak back in the class during lunch and copy the answer key to every upcoming test I could find. On the days of tests, I went back to the classroom again during lunch to compare my answers with the one or two smartest kids in my class who always got perfect scores. I reasoned that I won’t need anything I learned during those years and I truly did not!
I don’t cheat much but sometimes I just have to I’m a doodler, I will scribble in notebooks, in the margins of paper handouts, on the back of tests, and importantly, my arms So for things I struggle with, I’ll just write on my arms, usually in red or orange pen because it fades faster and blends in with my skin tone when I smudge it I’ll blatantly write things I can’t for the life of me remember and just occasionally omit vowels because my handwriting is atrocious and just looks like my usual scribble
The teacher teaching Morse code and then making students wear sunglasses reminded me of the fact my music teacher taught us musical Morse code (using note length to indicate letters I think? You might be able to find it online) and he joked that we had to learn it to cheat on tests, my autistic ass thought he was seriously telling us to cheat
My favorite cheating story actually happened this last year by my eldest daughter. My daughter is autistic and struggles a lot in normal classrooms so we transferred her back to online school for 8th grade. She had a big project essay that she was supposed to write all about her favorite things and why. I help her out with the outline and was literally in the same room with her while she wrote the whole thing. She turns in the assignment and the teacher rejects it saying that she needs to rewrite the whole thing. So she does rewrite it and try to flush it out more, and teacher rejects it again accusing her of cheating because "it's too robotic and people don't actually talk like that." ... except that it was exactly like she thinks and talks and again I was sitting right next to her as she wrote it! My kid was very upset and was trying to argue with the teacher that she actually did write it but teacher was having none of it. Teacher then explains to the whole class that they "can't use ChatGPT to get out of doing the work." A light went off in my kid's head at that point... so she went right over and put her outline into ChatGPT and tell it to make it sound more human, then copied the answer and turned it in. Teacher finally accepted it and used it to show the other kids about the differences between human vs robotic writing 😂
Totaly used ChatGPT on my final essay sophomore year
I'm autistic and so is my brother, our parents home-schooled us for our entire lives because we would've had so much trouble like this and a lot worse in school, neither of us could've functioned in that kind of environment. I'm really impressed how quickly your daughter thought to do that! I also can relate a lot to the whole "writing robotically" thing, I've had to consciously work to make my writing more casual on purpose.
I teach IT at tertiary level and we encourage the students to use ChatGPT as a tool to help them in their assignments. I NEVER ask them to write essays, in fact I have a constant struggle getting them to NOT write essays as they've been trained to do all through high school. I'm training them to be in the workforce, and when does anyone ever require an essay in a job! I have them do research and apply it to a given scenario, so even if the use AI to check their writing they need to be able to assess whether it makes sense. They also have to present their work in professional business style reports that are highly scannable, understandable and formatted well (not fancy, just professional). We also have a final written exam with a mandatory minimum pass mark, so if they haven't learned anything from doing the assignments it comes out there.
Honestly with several of these it seems like it’d be easier to study
Those ones who literally used Morse code, that absolutely shocked me
Never underestimate how much work people will do to get out of doing work
With several of these where they're just writing down the information in any way (rather than copying someone else's work or exploiting code or attention), they ARE studying, and that's what confuses me lol
You're still reviewing the information, and probably for hours too depending on the method. They're literally just doing the method where you rewrite your notes.
Instead of morse code they should just use like 1 tap with your shoe = a and 2 taps = b and so on. Also most of these work for basically every test not just one specific
I did the Tengwar thing, it wasn't really that hard because I already knew Tengwar before I had the idea that I could use it for erm other purposes.
I was actually falsely accused of cheating a lot as a kid cause I didn’t do homework. So many of my teachers believed that you couldn’t test well enough without doing homework.
As a student I never did homework and as a teacher, I never give it, they just have to complete whatever they didn't finish in class. I got hauled up by a parent saying I was disadvantaging her child by not assigning homework! No studies have every shown it makes any difference.
"I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it."
There are degrees to laziness. There's the lazy but gets the job done properly to good enough. There's the lazy half ass the task while waiting for the rest of the team to carry his sorry ass. Then there's just the can't be bothered to do this.
@@Rawkit_Surgeonsir this is a quote
@@lailoutherand Yes and mine is personal experience from the perspective of a lazy person. Me.
@@lailoutherand I was pretty sure this was Patrick, but ok.
>Hire a lazy person
>...
>Nothing gets done!
I cheated by learning all the material and then writing it on the exam!
They never caught on! Muah ha ha ha!
That is diabolical!
That’s so clever, how couldn’t I think of that
@@NarwahlGaming Genius!
They can’t be that smart if they were caught.
My high school math teacher told me that she once had a student cheat by writing the quadratic formula on the ground beneath his desk, and she didn't notice until after the test was handed in. But the formula on the ground was written incorrectly, so the kid got a 0, and the teacher turned him in anyway. Years later, the teacher was shopping and said the student came up to her while he was working in the store and said she ruined his life
😂
Yeah, he ruined his life.
you don’t have that much going for you if you do something like that, though. sometimes an olive branch can go a long way.
Sounds like they just became one of those people who blame everyone else for their own sad life.
Getting a 0 in high-school math absolutely does not ruin your life lol
Story 56: The blue lens makes the background of the paper blue and the blue ink invisible. The red lens makes the background of the paper red and the red ink invisible. Closing one eye or the other will reveal one set or the other set of notes.
I didn't cheat on tests, but I did teach my friends in High School how to write in Futhark Runes so we could pass notes to each other. One of the meaner teachers took it from me and was pissed she couldn't read it. She told me to stop and I did, in her class.
In college we had a class on diversity and multiculturalism in the classroom (this was over 20 years ago, btw) and one of our guests in class was a deaf student at university. He told us that he taught his high school friends SEE (Signing Exact English, aka English on the Hands), and they would sign across the room during lectures. As ed majors, we all thought it was hilarious, because he said the teacher wa dumbfounded on how to tell them to stop, since they weren’t disrupting class with noise. I don’t know what their teachers did for tests, although I think he said they were good about not cheating by signing during exams.
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For the English class we had to read "The Hobbit".
In this book, there is a verse that is translated from Tolkien runes into english. Using that are a key, you can translate english back into runes.
Guess who had a pen with lots of rune graffiti which translated back into useful exam notes?
None of these cheat “hacks” would ever work in high school courses, yet alone college- expect the one person “accidentally” turning in the wrong paper.
How did anyone get away with any of this is just so fascinating. Also this is so much more work than actually studying, and much much more risky.
Edit: Actually writing in Elvish, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones or any nerd language is hella smart. Unless you have a cool teacher who’s an even bigger nerd. I’m also shocked UnderSparked hasn’t seen any LoTR 😮 and the colored coded bracelet is genius.
With the whole hearing spectrum thing
I have ridiculously good hearing. You know those rechargeable battery chargers? They make a really high pitched noise, and it drives me insane because high pitched noises give me a splitting headache. So not only is it risky because of the hearing spectrum, but it could really hurt some kids who can hear it. I remember one class I couldn’t do anything because some idiots brought high pitched whistles into the classroom that the teachers couldn’t hear, and of course every time they’d sound off, I’d have to immediately drop everything and plug my ears or else I’d feel like my head was gonna explode.
I am a nurse but in college I had to take stupid courses like music education to “broaden my education”. As a result, I often ended up with multiple courses that required me to write multiple page essays. I just outsourced them to an essay writing site from India. They would ask for MY personal stance on the matter and write the essay per my views, and they’d send me their essay. I’d proof read it, clean it up for grammar and submit it. I only had one teacher call me on it. And that was because I’m academically a superior writer to the person who wrote the paper. I used the excuse that I had 3 other essays to write and therefore didn’t take the time to focus full attention on her essay and she accepted my excuse. I felt bad, but hey. If I’m a nurse, what use do I have for the hypocratic method of argumentation? NONE.
This makes sense enough to me, it's not like you were cheating on things you had to learn for nursing. I seriously wish that schools would let people have more agency to choose what they learn and what they don't.
@karinalumen9722 I completely understand having a little bit of everything, but to the extent that or profit colleges drive this is in excess. It’s nothing more than a money grab. I shouldn’t have to take 4 semesters of government, 4 semesters of writing, 4 semesters of literature in order to be a nurse. And judging from your atrocious grammar and spelling errors in your comment, maybe YOU could stand to go back and take a few extra courses since high school clearly failed you. 🙄
Mr D. is a real one
I wonder if he likes wine(if you get it you are cultured)
As a teacher, not only did I do story 2. But I also used to give my students questions to ask me so they would ask really thought provoking questions. As payment I would give them an A on the next quiz.
In sixth grade, my handwriting was so bad that the teachers and school administration in their infinite wisdom decided that it was better to have me do all my homework on an ipad unstead of working with me on my handwriting and none of them thought to shut of the spell check feature in thw settings. I didn't realize that the spell check feature was on right away, but when i did i realized i had been cheating on my spelling tests. I didn't shut spell check off or turn myself in to the teachers for cheating. I still feel guilty about it sometimes, but then i think what the teachers didn't know couldn't hurt them.
Not an exam cheat, but it's in the same spirit....
We had an English teacher that used a hearing aid. He was really strict about students talking in his class.
So what did we do?
We taught ourselves basic sign language. Just the alphabet. It was slow, but he couldn't "hear" us say anything! We got a lot of hard looks from him as he tried to work out if we were making fun of his hearing aid....
Story 36 was amazing, but that’s definitely something I would’ve planned ahead of time with my friends. Never give details in the story but have them planned for any questions you could get asked
I thought the same
Yeah, the teacher was definitely more clever with that one
In middle school I was cheating by writing things on my desk in a weird characer set that I made up on the spot, and it looked purely decorative. I also helped other students by just whispering names of places that we had to identitify on a map, because our teacher couldn't hear exactly well. My favoutire sceme however has to be when I faked being on the verge of throwing up, ran to the bathroom and searched the answers on my phone, then washed my face to be cerdible and gone back into class. By the way, I also had a second phone just to give to the teacher.
Now I'm in university, and for most of the subjects someone has a copy of the tests of last year, and also a guide on how to solve them. There are also messenger groups where some people braver or lazier than me help eachother during tests, but I never used it because I'm bad at hiding my phone.
For Story 25, I wonder if any students listened to the Animaniacs Presidents of the US song during the test. Also, I'm surprised the teacher even allowed music during tests. As that student proved, it gave ample opportunity to cheat.
Pens doing synchronized swimming made me cackle hahahahaha
The bracelet one, that one is actually brilliant.
2:45 That is what i do sometimes when i dont know an answer, I wait until later when I'm finished with all the questions to solve it because sometimes the answer is in a different question.
I can’t get enough of these videos
One of my college professors often gave quizzes. He was fairly relaxed on those, and often they were "open book, open note" and occasionally explicitly "open friend". One particular quiz was nasty: If you messed up the first problem of 10, you got 9 incorrect or only partly correct (the 10th was unrelated)--but if you got it, you had pretty clear sailing through those 9. And, this one wasn't explicitly "open friend". At one point, he left the room. Someone near the front, once the door closed behind him, pipes up "Did anyone not get A on 1?" General silence. The fun part? In a ten-question multiple-choice quiz, ABCDEABCDE.
Tests were definitely not "open friend", though.
“Open friend” somehow makes me think of an anatomy class gone wrong.
"Teachers, what is the smartest way someone cheated on a test?"
"Not a teacher, but-"
High school chemistry. We all blatantly cheated. For example, some had full on cheat sheets in public view, or had the textbook in their lap. Our teacher would catch us cheating , but rather than exposing us or punishing us with bad grades or worse, she would simply shake her head and say “this is so unethical” and walk away. We all got A’s in the class. At the end of the year, a lot of people in the class failed the state mandated Standards of Learning Test where cheating was not possible.
Ironically, in college it turns out I was really good at Chemistry and became a tutor.
On a vocabulary test in latin nearly everyone cheated. Most just had their open book in front of them. The only kid that got caught had the book in their lap. The teacher called himself “Detectiv teacher’s name” after catching that kid.
Shoutout to that canvas girl because I didn’t know they could tell when you left the tab
I went to the emergency room and got a doctor's note. When I had an illness then I scanned it with my computer. Use photoshop and add Doctor's notes. Anytime, I wanted to call off of work. And the beautiful thing about it is is even if they tried to call and verify they can't because it's a hipa privacy violation The only way.
They can is if you sign the paperwork stating that they can talk about your heath with the hospital. they We're so good, in fact , the sad thing is that I shouldn't have had to do that. But the American workforce and jobs in general. Don't give you enough days off when you need them I was able to use it to make some for my friends.And they were able to get days off when they needed to get days off
I’ll call myself out here but back in 10th grade I used to write notes in the barcode/price tag of my pen with a very thin fine liner (0.05) and hey never got caught
When I was taking my GCSEs, I realised that the copyright notices for any extracts or images licensed for the exam papers would be printed with an identifying description on the very last page. These descriptions would often include the actual answers to the questions in the exam itself (such as a diagram of photosynthesis being identified as "Photosynthesis diagram").
Being the honest student I was, I added a note on any and all relevant exams to notify the boards of this obvious design flaw, and they now have such notices in a separate booklet only available after the exam period has concluded.
My freshmen year of college, my chem 101 professor was super strict about academic integrity. One day on a minor homework assignment, the kid no one liked to talk to ask me for help (I was the only one that was ever nice to him) and since I was busy, I just sent him a picture of my copy of the assignment. I explicitly told him do not copy, just use the answers for a reference. Bro copied my answers verbatim. I nearly got expelled, and had to literally beg to remain at that university, all over a single question on a single minor homework assignment. Needless to say, bro, was too ashamed to talk to me again.
In order to help students you should always write an exam where questions lead them to the write answers and are sequential. Another thing to do is have the questions follow the outline of our lectures. Exams are to assess your knowledge and lots of people just need a mental jog.
My school had small classes, so student's desks often were against the teacher's desk. I often sat at such a desk. During history test I used the fact our teacher kept a giant leather bag on the desk to cheat. I simply placed my history book in front of her bag and copied dates and names directly from the book. When she got up, I quietly closed the book and laid down on my desk - I'm so near-sighted I had to almost touch the desk with my face to read and write. Also my friend who was blind covered all the sound with his loud braille embosser. He tried to cheat by keeping his binder with notes on his legs under the desk and read it with one hand. Unfortunately it slid off his knees and hit the floor...
" i don't even fish" ahhh this killed me
I never had to cheat... I just got high grades with low effort.
As a teacher, I was listening to this during my class' final performance task. Thanks for the pointers.
I only cheated once when I forgot to study for an essay test. I could see a neighbor’s answers and just rewrote them - and because I am a good writer I improved their answers and got a slightly higher grade.
Ok. As a teacher and parent, thank you for cluing me in to what I may have to deal with in my classroom. That being said, I teach band, sooo…. Not a whole lot of written testing going on. Some, yes, but not a ton. Your test is - play the music. Kind of hard to cheat there; you either practiced and know it or you didn’t and don’t.
Also, though I don’t let my kids use um…notes…in band (well, I do but different a definition of notes), I always liked our NYS Regents science exams. They don’t fart around and make you memorise all the formulas in chemstry, biology, and physics. They GIVE you a reference sheet for the test. The formulas aren’t labelled, so you still have to know what’s what so you can use the right one, but you don’t have to waste your time memorising every one and risk getting the answer wrong because you mixed up variables or something. I also think that open note/open book finals are great for classes like history because you need to know where to look, but you don’t have to have every confounded date crammed into your brain. Would have been great in university for music history. No one remembers every composer’s birth and death date or what exact year each piece was written. That’s why many of my professors gave us a 10 year margin on either side of the actual date.
True story from 20 century music history: our professor was, let’s say easy going (I heard stories from classmates that they saw him smoking weed before class once, so there’s that). In music history we usually had to listen to a segment of a piece, name the composer, approximate date of composition or c9mposer’s birth/death dates, and then justify your answer in essay form (details about the music/composer you wrote down). On one test- Impressionism- we’re all sitting there, listening to the Debussy segment and he suddenly says, “You guys want a hint? Do you want a hint?” So the piece is called Nuage (Clouds), and what does prof do? He picks up the chalk and draws a cloud on the board. Everyone in the class got at least that one piece correct. The dumb thing was that Debussy’s music is fairly distinctive, so most of us already knew it was his piece, so all he did was give us the exact title.
Growing up, I loved to read. Still do. At one point in my school days, I was reading a book a day. I never had to really study for very long for practically any class, so never had to cheat. I also went to church and was a member of the usual youth post-church group on Sunday evenings. At one such meeting the discussion was cheating, and my fellow church group members could not believe: 1) I never cheated, and 2) I didn't know how to cheat. They proceeded to try to teach me how to cheat. At a 'Christian' meeting. In a 'Christian' church. It was not too much after that I decided I would go to church for the singing (I love to sing), but the messages were obviously not biblical, and hypocritical, so did not pay them much attention.
During my sophomore year of high school, I was in an English class where we had a student teacher. We used iPads at my school that our actual English teacher understood how to use well, but he did not. We had an assignment where we had to submit a video interview with a member of our families. Most interviews were about 15-20 minutes long due to the amount of questions we were provided. We had to submit the interviews to a dropbox in the app that we did our school work on. For some reason, I had completely forgot about this project. I had not done the interview or any other work regarding the project. I also had the class first period, so I was freeeeaking out. Turns out all the videos were way too long and took too much time to submit and load. Most teachers would’ve known this already, but he was student teacher that had no clue. He let all of the students with this problem have an extra day so we could upload the video on a private RUclips channel first, then submit the video. I pretended that my video was not uploading because it was too long and he gave an extension as well. That night, I shot the video with my dad and pretended it was originally due the next day. My project turned out to be pretty good and well edited so I got an A! I thanked any powers that may exist for the technology struggles.
I had a Spanish 2 teacher who would refuse to go to the back half of the room. He would always expect a student to hand out papers all the way into the back and would stretch as far as he could so he didn’t have to step in the back of the room if you put nothing on your homework or test or even the exams, you would still earn 100 just for showing up for the class. The only way you got a 50% was it you did not put your name on the paper zeros and everybody passed and that was not around next year.
ALWAYS check for sample exams in the library for practise reasons.
After checking the Physics exams in the library, I found out that for the past 5 years, my teacher set, were all the same. I was surprised to see that the ONLY thing different on each test was the stated year of the exam. Not only were the questions always the same type, in the same order, the values, numeric details were always the same, giving the same answer, year after year.
So, with my simple programable calculator, I just stored all the answers. If I didn't know the answer in the exam, I would fudge some type of restating the question and then plock down the answer. Almost every answer was correct and a couple of them had big red question marks with the word "Working" to show that the "steps" written down couldn't had been used to work out the answer.
I was someone who was known to almost always wear a hoodie, except near the end of spring. In my hoodie I ran two sets of earbuds, one into the hood for relaxed listening to music during lunch or study halls, and one into my left sleeve for listening to music during class. I'd also normally lean my head on my hand, which made it near impossible to see the earbud and wire.
I never cheated, but also never got caught listening during tests.
Back in my school days, the teachers added a year to our IB program as it was the first time it was offered, they wanted to make sure it would run smoothly so we were a type of practice group and would get full credit upon completion. We were grouped together not by age because of the needed to be at a certain number of students to be funded so there were a few siblings in the class. Unfortunately my sister, pain in the butt type, and I were in the same class. First year no problem, second year ended w/me shot putting one of the chairs across the classroom at her head for one in a series of insults she would shout at me, thinking she was untouchable being mommy’s little angel. Dont fuck w/a bear. I ended up staying back a year to get away from her. Interesting thing about the second year was they duplicated all the course materials and tests from the last year, I caught on by midterms and told them that if they wanted to use last year’s materials then they needed to change the order of the questions. So there I was doing the same thing over again for a third time and I had the questions to the first years midterms as they gave them to us to give us the chance to see where we went wrong, to correct our errors and learn from our mistakes, etc etc. I looked over the scantron saw a waving pattern in the answers. I almost memorized that pattern. When midterms came around again, I walked up to the teacher’s desk w/my scantron and pencil in hand. I asked them, “please tell me you changed the order of the questions this time” and got the reply, “I am not at liberty to discuss that with/you”. I put down my scantron quickly went over it w/my pencil, handed it in, and walked out. I got 93% on that midterm. I was done in about 4 minutes and all of my finals were required to be oral reports w/a minimum of 3 teachers on hand to witness my answers. I still scored in the high 80s to mid 90s on most of my finals. They could have just reordered the questions and had less of a problem from me, I protested the lack of education being taught for 7 weeks, showing up for one class every other week until the threat of expulsion was on the table.
A lot of these require more work and education then just studying smh
if you know what your essay question is beforehand, there are ways of memorizing a prewritten essay verbatim (personally, I'm fond of using Anki and making flashcards of the sentence before and the sentence after). For reference, I was able to memorize the entire council of Elrond scene from the Fellowship of the Ring novel (16000 words) in about 2 weeks with 9 hours of work 2 years ago and some revamping every few weeks to months afterwards (in total I spent 15 or so hours). I still remember 98% of it and can recite it in about 2 hours
I literally created a language with its own alphabet. It looked a lot like those old cuneiform scripts. I usually arranged it in geometric forms so it looked like just doodles.
I was able to write entire chapters and formulas. I wrote them on my table, the windows frames even on the blackboard. I was reading the whole answers just in front of the teacher and they never noticed, they just thought my scripts were graffiti or some idiotic new artistic fad my classmates were into at the time.
I still use this language when I run my D&d campaigns. I also have some words tattooed in my arm as a reminder of the lengths I would go instead of following logic path.
I cheated by having an autistic photographic memory
Got a 100% in one of those "we only give 95 on essays" classes after the adjunct offered me "either take the zero or we go to the dean" it was a 100 level poli-sci class I was taking as a college senior, and when I pointed out I already had a minor degree in classical studies and had actually had to translate the relevant section from Plato, as well as my cited sources from other classical scholars, the "this is plagiarized, 0%" went away by the end of the day. Dude apologized and said as it's a super low level class he's pretty hasty to assume plagiarism. But yeah, best way of cheating: have a relevant degree already.
My Cheating story happened when I was in 11th grade. Some students pass on their answers in a small paper by letting them borrow their eraser, with the paper pressed on it on the back to conceal it. Our method was also writing it in small papers and excuse ourselves to go to the bathroom at random times one by one with me or my classmate first to put the paper on our agreed spot. Then the other student will go to the bathroom and get a copy of the answers.
Someone managed to social engineer their way into getting the national standardised test early. This is why there is a sealed B version of it every year ready to be shipped
This reminds me of when I took 10th grade chemistry as a senior cuz I hated chem, but it was a requirement to graduate. There were two other seniors in the class and the tests were always split into 3 parts. Multiple choice, long answer, and math/diagrams. Each of us would study for one portion of the exam and we would all sit at the same table on class anyway. Once we all finished our known sections we would rotate our test and work on each others. We even learned to copy each others handwriting so it would be harder to detect. Those girls are how I passed chem.
In middle school I was in a class where we all (and I mean ALL) came up and agreed to a cheat method. It only worked on multiple choice questions but this teacher only used scantrons, so it worked. Essentially, if you know the answer to a question you would tap a corner of your desk. Like A-top left, B-bottom left, C-top right, D-bottom right. After the first time we figured out we needed to know the question number you were on. The tests never had more than 50 questions, so we came up with a form of sign language. 1-5 a normal tap with that number extended with your right hand. 6-10 same but whole holding your pencil right side up in the tapping hand. 11-15 holding your pencil with the point out. 16-20 hold your pencil in your other hand right side up. 21-25 flipped pencil in opposite hand. 26-30 starts back over with your left hand. So on to 50. We had more than a 95% average as a class (rare miscue or someone thinking they knew the answer and didn’t).
As an engineer, pro tip, look over formulas right before a test and right away write them down on the front of the test at the bottom or on the back of the exam. I would do that and no teacher ever had a problem with it and it helps a lot.
In a Calculus course in college, circa 2001. Now, I'd taken Calculus in high school, but bombed on the placement test (didn't realize when it was scheduled and forgot to study as I barely made it in time).
I mostly spent my time in class reading Lord of the Rings. Anyway, we had weekly online quizzes you had to take in the school's dedicated math computer lab. While they were Calc, they were just multiple choice (A, B. C, or D).
The teacher warned us that, even though we had unlimited tries for these weekly quizzes, we couldn't just keep taking the tests over and over until we had all the answers. She said she had too many potential questions for the quiz to select from for that to work. *She was wrong.* I got very lazy and would take and retake the quizzes a dozen or two dozen times to brute force it.
No, this did *not* help my understanding of Calculus and I paid for being lazy and cocky later.
High school English. We were supposed to read a book and write a book report as part of the test. The format for the final was such that I made up a book and author.
During covid it was pretty easy to cheat on online exams. Most of my classmates wrote their exams together, I went a step farther: I had my mom write my art exam for me. It got 13 points (equivalent to an A- I think).
A classmate cheated with google translate on a spanish exam, because the teacher noticed him using grammatical forms, they haven’t learned yet, so she and another teacher had him explain, why he used those forms. He could not explain a single form in the exam. He got a failing grade, but I’m not sure, if he got a “0” or a pity point.
In high school I cheated in the most uncreative way, but I got away with it BECAUSE it was uncreative. I had a tutor who would sit in with me during my online courses (I was homeschooled 10th-12th grade) the way I got away with it, was most days my tutor had to do our lessons virtually because he lived so far away. I would simply show he a full screen during our online meeting with just the school website on it then when he wasn't looking I would switch the full screen to one tab. Then on a completely separate window (to avoid accidentally sharing the tab with my answers on it) would open a tab with a website where students asked for help and the questions would have been answered years prior to me looking for them. And the way I avoided suspicion was by purpose getting one or two questions wrong so I wouldn't get nonstop 100% all the time. My tutor looked for literally every kind of cheating method except the old fashioned way because he thought that 'no one would use something so obvious'.
TLDR: I used the classic cheating method and reverse psychology to pass high school as a B+ student
When I was in college, we weren't allowed to use the book or notes on tests in my math class, calculus I believe. So I took the time to program all the formulas into my graphing calculator. Then, when it came time for the test, all I had to do was go look at the list of things I had programed to see the formulas. Never told anyone so I was the only one who did it and never got caught. To be fair, the teacher never told us we couldn't program formulas into the calculator lol
When I was in uni we had a dropbox of as much of the course content as we could. We had slides, tests previous student's projects and in one subject the entire final question bank. Oftentimes the tests would be the same apart from some numbers and the order changed. They eventually found out about it and shut it down a few years after I graduated.
I used to write notes on my upper thigh in high school and just slightly pulled up my shorts to check them. Never got caught bc I made sure they were high up enough to not be revealed when i just sat down
I'm 100% sure story 36 was a speech used in my primary school a few years ago
In intro computer science, all our assignments were auto-graded by running our code with test inputs and comparing the result to the correct answer. I created an object that considered itself to be equal to everything.
In other news, I used the red+blue ink strategy, except that instead of wearing 3d glasses, I was just able to switch which color text I was reading in my own brain.
Took College Albrega 3 times because I could never remember the formulas when it came to tests.
3rd attempt, my teacher allowed us to use crib sheets for formulas
I did something similar To the Morse code story in high school once. Turns out my math teacher was a nuclear mathematician on a submarine and he knew fooling well what we were doing. But the fact that we learned Morse code was okay with him. He told us that we would only get away with it once the next time he would have to write us up and send us to the office. Coolest dude ever
I discovered a good cheating method while I was doing some experiments. I had a bunch of pencils (non mechanical) and were shaped like triangular prisms. I would write with sharpened pencil onto the sides of the pencil. Since it was pencil written on violet, you can’t see anything unless your eyes were within a feet of the pencil, and that is only if you position the pencil correctly to have the answers show themselves by reflecting the classroom’s light onto the lead. If the teacher noticed anything sus you can just destroy the evidence with a swipe to smudge off the pencil.
there's so much effort being put into cheating that would actually just make these people experts in that subject. The stuff is just boring make learning fun again for everyone. I don't think anyone truly hates to learn it just sucks when you're not interested in the subject.
I love your vids once I almost fell asleep bc your voice is so relaxing
i am a pre school teacher and dont give test, but this happened to me in college math, my teacher would make two different test for each time and depending where you set in the row is which one you got. i knew the girl next to me was trying to cheat and i just moved a bit over, i was ok at math because i went to math lab to get help and studied. I later told the teacher that the girl next to me was trying to cheat but may not get far because of the different test and we both laughed.
Once (back in 2009) I had a friend, who sucked at physics on the university. I passed the test, but she failed, so she needed to retake it. She secretly taped her earphones (not the wireless ones) to her ear, neck and body and left her hair down, so it was hidden. Then secretly took a snap of the test, then sent it to me (who was at home) via MMS, and called me. We were on the phone during the whole test (1.5 hours), and when I solved a problem, I told her, like 'Listen! Write down: X equals a long, straight horizontal line in the middle of the X, then write the following over the line!...' She was using 2 indigo paper under her original draft paper, so when she (I) was done with a problem, she could gave away 2 copies of the answers, so we could help a lot of people to pass the test that day! (There were approx. 60 students retaking the test!) 😂
Conclusion: Never underestimate engineer students, because we are officially trained to solve every possible problem! 🤣
My husband helped his friend cheat in an astronomy class in high school. His friend would sit behind him and tape the constellations they were being quizzed on to his back. If the teacher walked by, hubby would lean back in his chair and cover the paper, but if the teacher was sitting at his desk up front, hubby would lean forward so his friend could see the cheat sheet. They never got caught.
In year 7, I was learning Japanese and I wrote valences on my periodic table in Japanese. Worked well for both chemistry and language
In elementary my teacher would publicly shame poor grades on spelling and grammar tests to make kids study. Instead, kids got to cheating. I would put the harder words I wasn't confident about on a tiny roll of paper and hide in the hem line of my shorts. Got ratted out by the kid next to me because they were trying to destroy my sticker chart streak.
Oh i have an easy one. I had an online class that required a textbook, and i bought a digital textbook on my tablet. all the tests were done on the computer, and i found out pretty quickly that most of the questions that the professor used came straight out textbook. so when i had the test open on the computer, i would open my textbook on my tablet, and use the "search" function to find keywords from the questions. eventually one of those keywords would be found in a sentence that was identical to the question or answer
In my 10th grade geometry class there were around 6 or 7 kids that I would let cheat off of me on every test. Idk how we never got caught because we really weren't being sneaky at all. One of them would hand me their phone after I finished writing down my answers and I'd snap a pucture. They would then text that picture to the rest of the group and they'd all copy my answers and turn in their tests at different times. In hindsight, I think the teacher knew we were cheating, but just didn't care enough to stop it because there's no way we were actually doing it unnoticed.
There was a teacher who got an award for how he taught a science lesson.
He basically taught what a concept was and how it functioned before naming it so you could form an unbiased opinion before dismissing it out of hand because the name had become a buzzword kids were being mislead about.
If you know you know. But if you made it to the end of the class and still rejected the concept then at least you knew what you were rejecting.
In chemistry, you had to remember the structure of a number of different elements (?).
We had for maths a sheet of stiff plastic with standard shapes, curves, scales, etc. I found that if you scratched lines for the different structures on the plastic, the scratches were hard to see, but the shadows the lines made on a piece of paper were easy to see.
Funny thing is once I would write my cheats on my hands/arms/paper or type it out I wouldn't need it I'd just remember what I wrote. Writing stuff by hand became the way I studied when I got in college many years after I graduated from high school.
We had the same thing happen with a kid snapping a photo of the test and passing it around, except we got caught because the teacher had 1 wrong answers on it. So when like a bunch kids got 98 and the same single question wrong he knew something happened. Looking back, I think he might have purposely had 1 question wrong and tell if kids cheated by stealing the grading sheet.
I would like to take note that the best cheaters are probably kids who have studied but need that extra mental note of what an answer is. Not everyone is good at mentally retaining information. I know I'm not probably cuz my ADHD so even seeing certain things or hearing certain things while can you taking a test will help me during the test I found out later in life that sometimes I remember how to do things with the music I play in the background like my mind makes a mental note of that music and that way to do certain math problems by the sound I hear. I guess it's my audio association with certain skills. I can do them or I can remember how to do them
I got accused of plagiarism, not because she checked it, but because i spelled "armor" with a u. Im not british, i just preferred that spelling.
In the 6 grade our teacher would give us home work 2. Weeks in advance. My friend And I would do home work and I would make copies of it we sold the home work for like a nickel a copie. At the end of the year Ms Jeffers said we were the most cheating class she ever had. This was back in the mid 60 in a country school
FIRRRSSTT! these absolutely blew my mid, amazing video as always :b
I have one i can add.
I was.. pretty terrible at higher maths. Managed to pass Calc with a LOT of tutoring, but knew stats was going to be just as bad. When the final exam came i knew i couldn't recall the formulas under pressure. So.. i wrote the important formulas on a square of TP, rolled it into a pen, and pulled it out all sneaky when the exam had started. Quickly copied all the formulas onto the exam page like i was making a reference table, and then ATE the square of TP😂 No evidence, was never caught, and scraped my C- for stats.
In Tech Core in the Navy (electronics, '98) we were not allowed programmable calcs for tests. Because I had spent so long programming mine in class with the formulas I had them memorizes. 2nd person to ace the transistor test, first without a prior degree. 9 min.
Yea, no, I always used to colour code my outfits for whatever the hardest topic was. E.g. flame tests, alphabetise the metals, then wear the linked colours from a-z from my head to my toe.
Story 28: I did something similar. I procrastinated too long on an assignment so I sent it to myself and told the teacher my printer had been out of ink. However, I hadn't done the assignment at all. I changed my computer clock to a few days earlier not long after the assignment was assigned, created a text document, then adjusted my clock back to the current date. I filled the document with the rectangular symbol for when you don't have a font installed and saved that. It had been due on a Friday so I got myself an extra weekend to do the assignment.
The reason for adjusting the clock was to cover my bases...if the teacher looked into the file details at any point the "created" and "last saved" dates would seem as though I'd actually done the assignment, not just created a document and spent 30 seconds making it look corrupted.
They don’t get you to learn a bunch of different subjects to help you decide future jobs. At least part of the reason is to teach you how to learn. People who never go to school don’t know how to figure things out on their own a lot of the time.
This proves that it's not about how much you can remember, but how smart you actually are/can be, and how critical thinking wins overall when done right.
Ah, but if it's a medical exam and you cheat you could kill someone because of something you didn't bother learning.
Dirty classroom windows with exam notes traced in the dust......
I used to be the one giving My answers to a friend when doing múltiple choice (a-e) tests.
It was very simple:
I would answer the question and then kick softly My friend's foot (them sitting in front of me of course):
1 time for a, 2 for b, 3 for c, 4 for d and 5 for e.
Never got caught because the kicks didnt make a sound and tbf there's no way a teacher is looking to people's feet to catch someone cheating.
I got away with it probably more than 50 times
7:00 Mores Code: How did they distinguish the dashes from the dots? People have been banging on walls, pipes, floors in slop fiction since I Love Lucy and this has never been explained.
CASTLE CRASHERS???
Ily I forgot about this game
For years my method was: I sat next to someone who was really smart. Answer the first few questions, jump to the last 5 questions. Now, the smart person has done the first few. Check yours. Dont do it identically, answer some how YOU think and have answered. You will finish before them because you already did the last section. Doesnt look like you handed in the test right before them.
The thing with math that i think plagues a lot of people is whenever your education system forces SEVERAL fundamentally new equation types and functions with overwhelmingly difficult questions that go along with it, and stay too vague with the questions making it so that you dont quite know the right equation to use, it all combines to make you feel generally overwhelmed and angry at the whole concept. That was my difficulty. I always wished that when we learned new functions and such the difficulty of questions would start simple, introduce small bits of the equation, go on to introduce more, combine the two, rinse repeat. I would have understood it all SO MUCH BETTER if i couldve recognized some kind of pattern through clustered repetition. Imstead they would give us one extremely complicated (to our untrained minds) equation, then move on to the next completely different sort of equation (the onky way i can really explain this is, imagine you just learned Addition yesterday, then today yheu decide youre done sith addition, youve obviously mastered it after one day, so lets give you Multiplication today, then tomorrow they decide you understand that well enough to get a grasp on Subtraction and Division naturally, so lets throw PEMDAS (full formed equations utilizing each part of PEMDAS) at you despite not only not teaching you 2 integral functions, but also not teaching you how Parentheses or order of operations work, you'll figure it out
It was all just too fast, too overwhelming, they never spent enough time on any one part of math and i personally suffered for it, at the time, i couldnt even figure out what exactly my difficulty was, even if i see it so clearly now.
Common core really did fuck us all up.
My memory sucked when I was younger especially in high school and had difficulty memorizing the period table of elements. For the ones I could not memorize, I realized I could write them on my *right* ankle and calf and then easily cross my right leg onto my left leg and subtly lift up the bottom of my pants allowing me to see without suspicion because my seat was luckily in the last row - my left side being the edge of the class.
In grades 4-6, I often managed to sneak back in the class during lunch and copy the answer key to every upcoming test I could find. On the days of tests, I went back to the classroom again during lunch to compare my answers with the one or two smartest kids in my class who always got perfect scores.
I reasoned that I won’t need anything I learned during those years and I truly did not!
I don’t cheat much but sometimes I just have to
I’m a doodler, I will scribble in notebooks, in the margins of paper handouts, on the back of tests, and importantly, my arms
So for things I struggle with, I’ll just write on my arms, usually in red or orange pen because it fades faster and blends in with my skin tone when I smudge it
I’ll blatantly write things I can’t for the life of me remember and just occasionally omit vowels because my handwriting is atrocious and just looks like my usual scribble
Undersparked is a real one for playing castle crashers I never see people playing that. Maybe it’s just me but he has amazing taste in games.
The teacher teaching Morse code and then making students wear sunglasses reminded me of the fact my music teacher taught us musical Morse code (using note length to indicate letters I think? You might be able to find it online) and he joked that we had to learn it to cheat on tests, my autistic ass thought he was seriously telling us to cheat