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[MIMIC]

:lol :lol :lol My teacher owned me after she caught me.

Here's the story:

9th grade. Private, all-boys school (!). World History.

We were doing a group thing, and one of the guys who was supposed to take care of a certain aspect of our project didn't finish his work (and all of this would appear on a test).

Dammit....I was pissed. So right before the class--during lunch--I did some hardcore studying, and came to the realization that I couldn't possibly retain all this info in the limited amount of time I had. So, I scribbled all the important stuff on my hand (and mind you, this is the first time I ever attempted to cheat on a test). I felt very uncomfortable doing this. In the back of my head, something was whispering, "You're gonna get caught. You're gonna get caught. Don't do it...you're gonna get caught." Apparently, the evil side of my conscious was a professional hit-man and effectively silenced that voice.

My teacher must be an expert at catching cheaters because she caught me...even though I used the most subtle tactics at making sure she was out of range so as to not see the palm of hand angled toward my eyes.

SOMEHOW, she fucking found a way to creep up behind me, grabbed my hand and turned it over (confirming her suspicions), snatched my test and tore it in half in front of my face. :lol :lol I was so embarrassed (because I never cheat, and the first time I DID, I got caught).

However, I still got my pre-emptive strike in: I explained the entire thing to my mom before she called my house. If I let my teacher get to her first, I would have been punished indefinitely. :lol

Anyways, I explained the situation to my teacher the next day, and fortunately, she empathized and told me that the test wouldn't count against my grade.

Any other stories?

 

[superegular]

i cheated my way through business school... here's a good one:

if any of your profs/teachers let you get out a notebook for the use of the paper, write anything you want very faintly with pencil along the spine of the paper before hand.

take your test, all your info. is right there for you. then you rip off the paper when you're done, and your cheats are magically seperated from the paper you used for the test. sometimes i would miss one or two for good measure.

i used this method for formulas, or other shit that was pointless to commit to memory.

disclaimer: i am not responsible for your cheatin ass.

 

[superegular]

here's another:

stick a post-it with whatever you want inside a hat, not on the bill of the hat, but actually inside the hat.

walk into class with your hat on, sit down. they pass out the test. take your hat off and place it on the table so its in your clear view. all your answers are right there in front of you. if you angle it the right way, no one can even tell you are looking at it. try to look deep in thought and you won't get caught. cheating is about having the balls to do it and be natural.

coming next week: how to beat a piss test with synthetic urine.

disclaimer: i am not responsible for your cheatin ass.

 

[lexy]

Here are a few pointers.

- Writing all your important notes on a cue card and hiding it up your sleeve, in a pocket or in between the pages of the test.
- Writing notes on the bill or inside of a baseball cap. Taking the hat off during a test.
- Keep a cheat sheet in your pocket (preferably in your wallet) and going to the bathroom during the test. This will only work once so only use it if you absolutely have to.
- Graphing calculator. I think this one is self-explanatory :lol

You have to use some tact though, you can't just show up on the day of the test wearing a baseball cap and expect not to get caught if you don't have a reputation for ever wearing a baseball cap.

 

[Pochacco]

Cheating in highschool probably requires more work than actually learning the material.

 

[superegular]

sorry but i just can't help myself...

get a water bottle. carefully remove the label. write whatever want on the back of the label in very small lettering. put the label back on, fill it up with water.

magnification is an amazing thing.

 

[lexy]

cheating is about having the balls to do it and be natural.

Yeah, also try not to look at the teacher/proctor too much during the test. If you make eye contact, even once, there's a good chance they'll catch on and you have to abandon your plan to cheat. If you think about it, unless they are walking around the room checking to see if you are cheating or not, they won't be able to tell that you are cheating.

sorry but i just can't help myself...

get a water bottle. carefully remove the label. write whatever want on the back of the label in very small lettering. put the label back on, fill it up with water.

magnification is an amazing thing.

Brilliant! :lol never thought of that one.

 

[Matlock]

Only once, but I wasn't cheating!

The fourth grade teacher was talking, so I look over, and she said "Stop looking at Art's paper!"

What the hell?

So I reply "Come on, if I were going to cheat, I'd do it off of someone smarter than him."

Amazingly, I didn't get detention. Mainly because the principal threw out everything this woman ever did for discipline on principle--she once wrote up a detention for a kid because she though the buckeye leaves were marijuana leaves.

 

[Space Age Playboy]

I never cheated on a test. Shame on you cheaters.

 

[MIMIC]

:lol

You guys have some great tips. But in high school, the guys weren't allowed to wear any type of hat. And in college, you have to turn your cap during tests.

But I was scarred that day. I probably won't ever find myself trying to cheat again.

 

[DDayton]

i cheated my way through business school...

Cheated through business school?

Seriously though... as a teacher, I find this discussion rather amusing.

 

[superegular]

Seriously though... as a teacher, I find this discussion rather amusing.

thread over...

 

[lexy]

:lol

You guys have some great tips. But in high school, the guys weren't allowed to wear any type of hat. And in college, you have to turn your cap during tests.

:lol

Dammit. Someone talked.

Seriously though... as a teacher, I find this discussion rather amusing.

Oh shat!

 

[retardboy]

I use cheating to help me learn. I make cheat sheets for tests, but while writing them, I learn, so I don't actually always use them on the test.

 

[rareside]

I once heard a story about a guy that brought two blue books into a final exam. One of the blue books contained a pre-written essay and another was blank. Before the exam, the professor examined everyone's blue book to make sure it was blank. Once the blank one was examined, the guy swapped books and proceeded to pretend to write an essay for about 45 minutes.

 

[Teddman]

Cheating in highschool probably requires more work than actually learning the material.

Nah. You'd see people glancing at each other's papers all the time. Requires no forethought at all.

 

[retardboy]

I once heard a story about a guy that brought two blue books into a final exam. One of the blue books contained a pre-written essay and another was blank. Before the exam, the professor examined everyone's blue book to make sure it was blank. Once the blank one was examined, the guy swapped books and proceeded to pretend to write an essay for about 45 minutes.

Haha, yeah... That happens a lot these days. For the past like 2 years all my professors have asked us to start writing on random pages so that you couldn't do that. If it wasn't started on the page they told us, then you'd get an F.

You guys are also forgetting the cheating with cell phones thing. Our professors now give you an F if they catch you with a cell phone during a test. Almost all of my professors have told us that this semester.

 

[Tarazet]

No. I will freely fail tests, because then I learn from it (not only in terms of learning the material, but if I fail one test, I ain't going to fail the next one). Also, my marks are usually so good in the other areas that it doesn't matter.

 

[DDayton]

Eh. Cheating can be made pointless by creating tests/essays that require a broad knowledge of the subject. The problem is that that works better in some fields than in others.

(On a side note: I think my use of "business school" was over the top and condescending. I'm sorry. I'll choose my words a bit more carefully next time.)

 

[Agent Dormer]

Someone in my grade in high school bought the teacher's edition of the Spanish text we used, and shared his find with people. Since they didn't make their own tests, and just used the ones from the book everyone got As.

 

[Particle Physicist]

sorry but i just can't help myself...

get a water bottle. carefully remove the label. write whatever want on the back of the label in very small lettering. put the label back on, fill it up with water.

magnification is an amazing thing.

Cheated through business school?

Seriously though... as a teacher, I find this discussion rather amusing.

thread over...

:lol you are my new favorite poster.



not exactly cheating on a test, but here is something a retard kid did in high school:: one morning, he asked one of my friends if he could copy his homework.. my friend, not giving a shit, lent him his homework to copy... got it back when the kid was done..

turns out, this kid photocopied the homework... scratched out my friends name.. wrote his on top and handed it in :lol they both got in trouble.

 

[ChumsGum]

My entire music appreciation class got caught cheating. We all had to take a new final test over in small groups, heavily supervised.

 

[belgurdo]

Cheated in high school on these occassions:

-Since I was in a high school that was geared towards business I had to take higher level math courses despite the fact that I was going towards an English based curriculum. After failing the previous math class (Calculus, I think) I devised a plan for the Trigonometry course: Since I was a friend of one of the smarter people in class (sold him some games) I developed a system where I'd write down the numbers of the problems I needed solved on a piece of my scrap paper (I am known for doodling and messing with paper in class, so people might have assumed it was a habitual thing), tear it off and ball it up, and throw it on the floor, at which point he'd pick it up and give me the answers in the same way. Other people did this too later on. Oddly, we never got caught, I assume because either the teacher never caught on, figured I'd need all the help I could get, or just didn't give a shit :lol

-Mandatory physics class, for the same reasons above. For this class, I knew my shit but I fucking hated spending 40 minutes trying to do forumlas so I stalled on the test and waited until the teacher left the room for something unrelated, then asked a smarter kid for all of her answers. :lol Almost got myself caught when the teacher came back after the test and grilled me on how I got the answer, but I managed to bullshit my way through the solution enough to erase further suspicion.

What I lack in common sense I make up for in extreme luck, I suppose

 

[Teal'c]

I've thought I've needed to cheat on a test... only to find out I knew it anyway. I'd go through all the trouble of trying to compact and enhance my notes that by the time I'd finish I'd commit it to memory. Thus I probably never REALLY cheated to an extent of it effecting my grade one way or another that much. I have reused papers and taken shortcuts but I never was in any actual danger of being caught. My biggest weapon in HS was pure BS. Act like you know your shit and the teachers will start believing you do. Once you get on their "smart" side they tend to give you the benefit of the doubt. Making essays and papers that much easier to write. It's almost funny how many mercy points teachers are able to tack on when they think you give a damn. I haven't been as successful in college, but there are some moments.

 

[Ecrofirt]

Last semester I had a pretty pitiful record with cheating in my Russian Culture class.

I'd condense all of the notes that I had for the chapter (including the teacher's handout) into a paragraph in 6pt font. I'd then print out and cut out the paragraph, and put it in my hooded sweatshirt pocket. I sat in the back of my row, so pulling the paper out wasn't hard, and my 80 year old teacher never noticed.

What's so pitiful about this? Even with an entire chapter worth of notes in front of me, I didn't get higher than a C on any of the tests I cheated on. God, I sucked at that class.

 

[Hero]

Once I wrote down formula's and equations and the such on the area above the ankle so when I would sit, I would switch between crossing my legs and I could look at the stuff I wrote in ink. Most of the time I would just transfer the stuff from my leg and copy it on the test itself so I wouldn't have to look weird.

But yeah, one bathroom break cheat sheet wallet is good too.

 

[Belfast]

Yeah. Spanish 2. The teacher accidentally passed back the answer key with the tests and, well, I got the answer key. I normally sucked at the listening parts of the test, so I copied down the five answers for that one section of the test before informing her that I had the answer key. So I did give it back to her and wasn't a complete asshole, but she pretty much figured it out. I felt bad about it afterwards.

 

[Link648099]

Haha, great thread, surprised no one ever thought of this way though:

Get a white pen, and a white sheet of paper. Type all the info you want to take into the exam with you on Word or something, shrink it down really really small, print it out, and tape it around your pen.

I did that a few times in high school back in the day, worked every time. You dont have any paper to mess around with during the exam, and the most the teacher will see you doing is looking down at your pen while you are writing, but thinking its your paper your looking at. If the teacher walks around, simply cover the tip of the pen with your hand.

Plus, it beats writing out all the material by hand, and youd be surprised how much info you can fit on a 2 square inch piece of paper.

 

[Boogie9IGN]

I have just discovered the greatness that is programming equations and notes into your graphing calculator for math class

Once, in 8th grade history, this one guy got caught cheating on his Preamble test. Turns out he carved the whole damn preamble onto his pencil

Haha, in 6th grade, I used to copy off this girl's tests all the time, and she knew it. Eventually she started to write down the wrong answers, and when I was done copying, she'd erase and put in the correct ones. I failed almost every test

 

[TheOMan]

I can't remember what grade this was, I think 3 or 4. Every other day we'd have a quiz on our multiplication tables and whoever would get done first got a prize (usually candy).

Well, I would typically be the one to finish first, but after a while this girl - let's call her Christine - would smoke everybody in the class in record time. One day, one of the not too bright kids, but the kind of kid you know would grow up to be street smart gets out of his desk during the quiz - let's call him Scott. The teacher yells at him to sit down but he doesn't listen. He walks over to Christine's desk and lifts her arm and grabs a ruler from her.

The thing is, this ruler has all of the multiplication tables on the back of it, Christine had been using it to cheat and somehow Scott found out or suspected it and followed his hunch (or maybe he tried to cheat off her himself, but I don't think so). Regardless, Scott had burned Christine and had endeared himself to the kids in class and I think the teacher (and proved he had street smarts - usually the kind that matters). After that, whoever won the quiz gave his/her prize to Scott. That was a great class.

 

[spangler]

As a high school teacher, I've had the opportunity to see some interesting attempts at cheating. A couple of years ago, I gave my students a homework assignment that involved writing a poem. Now, there were very specific elements to this so the kids couldn't jot down any old bullshit and expect to get credit. Most all of them did a pretty good job, but my favorite was definitely the plagiarized one. One kid copied verbatim the lyrics to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" but, in what was apparently a burst of creative inspiration, changed the title to "R U Scared?". I didn't come down too hard on him, though, as I thought it was so goddamn funny.

On a non-cheating related note, my favorite dim-but-lovable student story came at the millenium changeover. My memory of the specifics are hazy, but I believe Time magazine named Einstein the "Person of the Millenium" or some such tripe. I brought this up to a class of tenth-graders and asked them what they knew about Einstein. One kid, in the most earnest voice imaginable, told the class how Einstein lived in Australia and invented the electric guitar. He continued to ramble along with this nonsensical gibberish for a minute or two when the lightbulb appeared over my head. He was describing the general plot of the old Yahoo Serious movie Young Einstein. I'm still not sure which surprised me more: that this kid believed the movie was a documentary of some sort or that a tenth-grader in the year 2000 had actually seen and could recall a Yahoo Serious movie.

Good times.

 

[calder]

My only cheating was the occasional use of the classic math cheat of cribbing formulas and equations you'd need. I'd write equations and brief examples or explanations in pencil very lightly on the hard grey plastic of my calculator case. Once the test started, I'd quickly jot down the formulas or whatever on the provided scrap paper like I had it in memory and I would be set. Then I would just surreptiously wipe off the pencil marks with a finger to erase the evidence.

To this day, I'm largely math-illiterate. No connection though!

 

[iapetus]

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

 

[Joe]

paper rolls out the side of the pen

 

[Ghost]

I glance over at peoples tests, just because im never quite positive im doing things right, its normally in exams where i have to draw specific diagrams and have forgotten which is which.


Oh and i used to cheat on french tests all the time, we had weekly spelling tests and i just put my vocap book open on the ground, the key was to never get 100%, i think at one point there was like 80% of the class doing the same thing.


And im sure to cheat in my final exams (ever) this year because ive never been caught and as such have made it through my entire education without being taught the that cheating is wrong. So i must bow to my own judgement and asume that it is in fact a good idea.



oh p.s. That water bottle idea is genious.

 

[pestul]

Didn't get caught, but I think it was some kind of sociological experiment..

Grade 11 Chem final. The prof just left the room about about the 1/3 point. We were signing the coefficients to organic formulas like mad. Then people just flat out started talking to each other (loudly). There must have been a mic/cam in there somewhere. :/

 

[The Fronde]

My AP Government class was ridiculous. We had tests on detailed 40 page chapters every Thursday and Friday and no preparation whatsoever in class during the week (we watched old movies). For some reason, my teacher photocopied the chapters and gave them to us as handouts, despite the fact that we all had the book. During tests, I'd go to the bathroom with the handout under my shirt and look up answers I was unsure of. Once he didn't give us the handouts so I stuck my huge textbook behind a toilet. When another kid came back from the bathroom, he loudly told the class that there was a textbook in there. I was sweating bullets, but my teacher actually didn't hear. I was saved. My cheating became the worst kept secret and a big joke to everyone in the class.

But I got a 5 on the AP test, so...

Also, for Physics, I didn't have a fancy graphing calculator, so I just lightly wrote all the formulas on the white inner cover of my Casio. Worked like a charm.