Have you ever cheated on a test?
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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.
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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.
You might be the reason for my story. I helped a bunch of other people cheat but I didn't, and it was not directly intentional.
We had TI-89s too but we were required to erase all memory and show the output message to the teacher to be allowed to use it.
I was really into some game on my calculator and didn't want to lose it from wiping my memory. So, I wrote a program that would mimic all the steps as if you erased it and return the same output at the end. Everybody was asking me to share it and they used it on the next test. I did too but I didn't have anything saved to use to cheat.
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nah. i may be a punk but i aced my tests using my own head lol
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No, of course not! Never!!
Oh, wait, is this here a test at all?Yes, and you failed
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Nope. I chose to go to school and paid to get educated, not to get grades and piece of paper. No cheating, no cramming ... I would only have been paying to cheat myself.
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No. Failure is another way to learn.
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No, and I think I would've been too scared even if I had the capacity to keep up such a ruse. I've always hated lying, it just feels bad.
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Define "cheating".
I looked up an online answer key for the last test I took. The test was take-home and open book, and the teacher repeatedly said that we could use ANY resource to complete the test. I spent hours scouring the course material trying to find some of the answers, and they just weren't there; the course simply didn't cover some areas of the test at all. Or even mention them. It turned out that there were several version of the course that I took, and the teach taught one version, but used the test for a different version.
Is that "cheating"? I don't know. I did all the parts that I could without looking online, but I'm still not happy that I needed to look online in order to complete a course 'successfully'.
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Hell yeah, high school was a joke
