Have you ever cheated on a test?
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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.
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I don't believe I have ever cheated on an exam or big test, but there were a few cases in college where teachers would leave answers for homework or projects unsecured, and I did make use of it whenever I came across it.
One such case was in an introductory computer science course. We had a weekly lab session where the teaching assistant was giving us an overview of using the Unix systems at the university. At one point early on, he was teaching about file and folder permissions, and gave us all access to his personal folder. And... Then he forgot to lock the permissions back up. His folder was fully accessible for the entire semester, and he posted full solutions to every programming project there.
I remember another course where the professor would send us a link to the solutions to the homework problems, after he finished grading the homework. But I learned that I could just change the URL to access all of the future homework answers.
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My university would keep past exam papers in the library. This was apparently a little known fact, but somehow we discovered it, went and got them and use them as the basis for revision.
Turns out our professors were lazy and used the same exam every year. Does that count as cheating?
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I don't believe I have ever cheated on an exam or big test, but there were a few cases in college where teachers would leave answers for homework or projects unsecured, and I did make use of it whenever I came across it.
One such case was in an introductory computer science course. We had a weekly lab session where the teaching assistant was giving us an overview of using the Unix systems at the university. At one point early on, he was teaching about file and folder permissions, and gave us all access to his personal folder. And... Then he forgot to lock the permissions back up. His folder was fully accessible for the entire semester, and he posted full solutions to every programming project there.
I remember another course where the professor would send us a link to the solutions to the homework problems, after he finished grading the homework. But I learned that I could just change the URL to access all of the future homework answers.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I kinda think it's often on purpose when teachers do that. I guess it's one way to raise the average grades, with plausible deniability that it may have been accidental.
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My university would keep past exam papers in the library. This was apparently a little known fact, but somehow we discovered it, went and got them and use them as the basis for revision.
Turns out our professors were lazy and used the same exam every year. Does that count as cheating?
If the school provided the material, you didn't bring anything to the test that you weren't allowed to, and nobody told you not to utilize the files in the library, then you didn't cheat
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Kind of. A college professor assigned a programming assignment for homework which I swear we had not covered the material required to implement it in class. They had however lazily assigned it from the textbook. So I went onto eMule (I know, right?) and found to teacher's guide and worked backwards from the solution to try to understand it. Then I wrote my own solution. It still didn't work perfectly though lol.
Oh once in high school, the smart kid memorised the multiple choice answers to the science test which they had in first period. They shared it at lunch time. We all memorised it or wrote it on something like an eraser. Needless to say, the next day, the whole class was given a new test and a firm talking to.
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Yeah. My D average, undiagnosed ADHD brain wasn't about to let me make it through high school the conventional route.
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Yeah. My D average, undiagnosed ADHD brain wasn't about to let me make it through high school the conventional route.
same thing.
ADHD makes highschool a nightmare.
if it wasn't for cheating in tests I would have failed highschool even harder. I did end up failing anyways, the kicker. the hypoerfocus I used to make my cheating utensil ended up being great study. so when I prepared for cheating I ended up doing fine, even if I didn't use any cheats in the test.
I'm not stupid, and ended up getting a GED (I wasn't American, but it counted as highschool and it was so much easier to attain, and opened the doors to UNI), got a bachelors, and then a PhD.
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Only once. By remembering more-or-less all answers to a test that were given by a professor.
Isn't that just... Learning?
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No. Learning stuff is important.
Not always. I don't need to learn the exact year some dude wrote some book, or what his feelings about death were, or the day some battle happened.
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Plenty of times mostly on literature and history exams in high school, helped a few buddies in university as well.
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I almost kinda involuntarily cheated and almost got flunked out of college. Comp sci major, forced to do a partner programming assignment. Met up with the dude and banged out like 75% of the project in the first meeting. After that, he kept dodging and rescheduling and giving excuses yadda yadda why he couldn’t meet up. Finally, just before the deadline, he says he’ll finish and submit it. I reluctantly agree (mostly because I was over a barrel at this point). The dumbass submitted his buddy’s version from the previous semester and it got flagged as a 99% match. We both had to face an academic dishonesty committee and plea our cases. Thankfully he fessed up (and I showed chat transcripts and screen shots) and he got an F in the class and a suspension of some kind. I think the prof actually kinda took pity on me because I was supposed to get a zero on the assignment, but I was a pretty crappy student anyway and that would’ve tanked my whole grade, so I think she just averaged my grades or something and I got a C+ overall.
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All the time! I do this thing where, before the test, I look over the subject matter and store the information in my head, letting me breeze through the questions.
In seriousness, no. But I've definitely been cheated off of.
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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.
One year I only had a single evening course... I used this technique too.
The only downside is the reoccurring nightmares where I forgot to graduate.
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I completed a full semester of a class in a few days since I just googled the answers
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Only once.
9th grade physics.
The teacher used an overlay to grade our multiple choice tests, and in a few spots, I'd mark two answers. I got caught, earned my crappy C, and never cheated again.
I hated physics.
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I had a professor in college who would do 10 question pop quizzes from time to time. He would always have the answer key stapled to the front of the envelope as he passed them out. I have good spatial recognition and would always crack a joke to him when he got to me just so he'd pause for a second and I could memorize the pattern real quick. I'd fill out the answers in under 30 seconds and just pretend I took it.
