Have you ever cheated on a test?
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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.
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We had TI-89 calculators in school. You could load programs on it to show, step by step, how to do quadratic equations. Another teacher in a history class was more manipulable and the students convinced them to allow us to bring in calculators to calculate the difference between dates, and they agreed. So we loaded our calculator up with notes from the computer.
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Not on my own behalf, but have helped others a couple of times.
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I've smuggled things into tests just to see if I could, but I've never actually used that to answer something.
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In school: yes, many times. Never was caught either.
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Not intentionally, but in high school we had a test on identification of flowers and plants. The teacher was an older man and he wasn't good with computers. He was showing pictures from the computer using video projector but didn't realize that Windows was displaying the filename of each picture in the title bar and each picture was named e.g. "daisy.jpg". Almost the whole class got full marks on the test except for the unlucky few who sat in the back row and had poor eyesight.
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Kinda once in college. It was a lab practical. The girl I thought was smart was across stations from me. I tried looking but noticed she had an obvious wrong answer, so I decided to not use her answers.
