Have you ever cheated on a test?
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A non-zero amount of times :3
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No, worst academic misconduct I've done is a written one page report that was questionably close to plagiarism.
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Some times in school I did, and not only do I not regret it at all, I also see it as a necessary life skill.
Many times people are put in deeply unfair situations where the rules are against them to begin with. If you play by the rules you will always lose.
In school I had some teachers who didn't give a fuck. They were not taking their job or teaching seriously but were still sadistic people taking some form of sick pleasure against students.
In such cases, there is no established framework in these situations where it there was a class with knowledge transfer/teaching, where the student is properly put to a test to verify he indeed adquire such knowledge. You rather have a sick social exercise where a sociopath is in a position of power making student's life hell and test results are semi random.
In university I also had teachers who only pretended to teach. They would not be there for most of the time of the class or not show up at all, but they still made tests with the material that wasn't teached and that students didn't even know about. Of course many would just fail like this.
In these cases I cheated.
Life trows you these situations, and learning how to cheat is rather learning how to save yourself. I never cheated in legitimate situations, as I just didn't feel I was being treated with injustice, and therefor didn't even had the need to cheat.
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No, but I did help others cheat a couple of times
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I knew of someone who kind of did, depending on which way you look at it. Only for one question though...
He noticed that the answer to a single question, was literally written on his otherwise exam-compliant calculator a few weeks before the exam, for high school math. The question often came up in practice tests. This calculator wasn't programmable (in the sense you could store answers).
The question?
How many kilometres in a nautical mile? Answer: 1.852.
He figured out that the numbers in the centre row of the calculator lined up exactly with the decimal fraction:
7 8 94 5 61 2 3So he drew a line around the calculator pad to link those numbers up. None of the teachers picked it up, as it looked like graffiti.
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Once, in school, I saw my teacher had carelessly discarded a printout of the questions for next week's tests in the classroom's paper basket.
I grabbed it to take home and study perfectly for those questions, feeling like a secret agent.
Never got around to even look at it before the test, though, and showed up unprepared as ever.
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Some times in school I did, and not only do I not regret it at all, I also see it as a necessary life skill.
Many times people are put in deeply unfair situations where the rules are against them to begin with. If you play by the rules you will always lose.
In school I had some teachers who didn't give a fuck. They were not taking their job or teaching seriously but were still sadistic people taking some form of sick pleasure against students.
In such cases, there is no established framework in these situations where it there was a class with knowledge transfer/teaching, where the student is properly put to a test to verify he indeed adquire such knowledge. You rather have a sick social exercise where a sociopath is in a position of power making student's life hell and test results are semi random.
In university I also had teachers who only pretended to teach. They would not be there for most of the time of the class or not show up at all, but they still made tests with the material that wasn't teached and that students didn't even know about. Of course many would just fail like this.
In these cases I cheated.
Life trows you these situations, and learning how to cheat is rather learning how to save yourself. I never cheated in legitimate situations, as I just didn't feel I was being treated with injustice, and therefor didn't even had the need to cheat.
This is the Kirk, Kobayashi Maru method.
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I haven't. Learning was always easy for me. Pay attention in class, take proper notes and do your homework. I know I'm lucky in that regard. Usually I only checked my notes the night before an exam and went through with it care-free. I only really studied for my math A-levels because it's not my strongest subject and for my final Spanish exam at the end of my 3-years job training because I could't care less about the language and thus only ever did the bare minimum learning it.
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I knew of someone who kind of did, depending on which way you look at it. Only for one question though...
He noticed that the answer to a single question, was literally written on his otherwise exam-compliant calculator a few weeks before the exam, for high school math. The question often came up in practice tests. This calculator wasn't programmable (in the sense you could store answers).
The question?
How many kilometres in a nautical mile? Answer: 1.852.
He figured out that the numbers in the centre row of the calculator lined up exactly with the decimal fraction:
7 8 94 5 61 2 3So he drew a line around the calculator pad to link those numbers up. None of the teachers picked it up, as it looked like graffiti.
That seems like more of a mnemonic than cheating, and isn't that a bit of a silly question for an exam? Unless it's asking you to derive how many kilometres in a nautical mile from something, exams shouldn't be testing rote memory.
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No. Learning stuff is important.
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No, I haven't. Never felt the need to do it.
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So in high school, we had TI-84 programmable calculators. Those could be used to store text. The teachers knew about that capability, so when there was a test where we were allowed to use the calculator, they wiped the memory of each one at the start of the test. However, I found that there was an app you could install called "fake", where you could restore all your saved data after a supposed memory wipe by entering a predefined numerical code. Teachers never knew that method existed. I may or may not have used that functionality a couple times. I don't feel bad about it, as memorizing some physics formulae would have never been any use for me in my later life anyway.
Don't know if it counts as cheating, but in uni there were some professors who reused exams all the time. Some students set up a download server where you could download all previous exams and its solutions. Pretty sure the professors knew about it as well, but were still to lazy to come up with new exams I guess. So as we were allowed to bring a hand-written sheet of paper with notes (which is a way better policy than all the memorization in high school), I just had all the solutions on there.
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Na, tests were too much fun to waste on cheating.
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Regrettably not
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No, of course not! Never!!
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No. I've never really been in a class where someone else had a deeper understanding of the material to cheat off of. Equal sometimes, sure, but equally likely to be wrong.
I did reach a point in math where I couldn't go further and took that as a sign. Math is math. If I can't do it in a test, I'd just be putting myself in a situation where I'm expected to do things I can't — most likely in the next class.
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I used to cheat the credit system by taking mind-blowingly easy exams from management courses (they're literally all the same) or from business studies (half of them are like maths for dummies). Weird minor courses were extra fun, and sometimes actually interesting to do read a book for.
Zero studying, just sign up for the course if it doesn't have an attendance requirement, take the test, free credit! Sometimes you could even shape those wildly unrelated courses into a Minor, which I how I have 4 minors on my diploma (1 normal one, 3 Frankenminors I assembled myself out of whatever I had already).
I used to do that with a few friends, and we almost got in trouble once for telling the truth ("no, showing up to class isn't mandatory and we're pretty sure we can pass the exam with zero effort"). There were zero rules against this, and the only harm was to the professor's egos, but I did get several stern talkings to.
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Yes, kinda.
I was in an entry-level “database” class that was administered online. I took it as padding to get credits to fulfill a requirement after switching majors. I figured it would be easy because I had a few years of on the job experience with databases.
Although it was still the early days of online learning, my school did have a comprehensive online learning platform. The teacher was self-taught, and hosted the course on their personal website. While we did have a book and a syllabus, the actual course focused on how the teacher knew how to use Microsoft Access.
They graded based on assignments that they handed out all at once at the beginning of the semester, plus tests. I did the entire semester’s homework in about 2 hours the first week, but found I kept missing test questions. After each test, it showed you the expected answers, and they often made little sense (not wrong, just weird – using anachronistic names for things, or the question was very specific about where menu options were that weren’t there anymore). You could retake the test as many times as you wanted (I don’t know if that was a bug or not), but I didn’t have that kind of time. So I just viewed source, where he’d clearly labeled each correct answer, and more or less skipped through the dumb quizzes. -
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Only once. By remembering more-or-less all answers to a test that were given by a professor.
