What lengths have you or someone you know gone to cheat? What were the repercussions? Did you or they get away with it?

Stories...

No cheaters? You people are pathetic.

i just asked my hubby... he said cool







J/K

JDINTERACTIVE said:

wish I'd thought of that one. Our school uniforms weren't that low cut though.

when i was in first grade i put my spelling book on my lap during a spelling test. i did it about four or five times before i got caught. my first grade teacher wasn't the brightest.

well, this wasn't something *I* did, but in my college intro to acting class, i was paired up with a girl who OBVIOUSLY didn't want to be in the class, and we had to do a scene from 'streetcar named desire'. during the 3 weeks we had to rehearse the scene, she kept cancelling and cancelling every time we had a date to rehearse. we FINALLY rehearsed the night before the scene was due, and she wasn't even off book! but she said, "don't worry, i will know my lines tomorrow."

so. the next day, she comes in with a big bag of stuff...bottles, books, mugs, etc. - they're meant to be props for our scene. SHE HAD WRITTEN HER LINES ON ALL THE PROPS!!!

and when we tried to do the scene, she would walk around the stage and act like she was "browsing" at a book or pouring wine in a cup...and it was SO OBVIOUS! total waiting for guffman moment.

our prof stopped us in mid-scene and flunked her on the spot. i was paired with someone else and had to learn a whole new scene in a week.

We were doing exames in a gigantic auditorium. I had some trouble with a few questions... and there only were a few questions.
It's not that I didn't prepare the exam, it just was a lot to study, and quite hard to study.
I had no neighbour, but they had placed everyone in rows, one behind the other. So, I accidentally leaned forward and noticed I could easily read that student's answers

As the auditorium was that gigantic, they didn't notice it and I didn't have a re-examination in August

But I never 'prepared' for cheating, too much preparation, too much stress, too much chance to be caught when you drop one of your notes.

isadora said:

You're the Jamie Lidell fan aren't you? I like you. Have a hug.

I don't think I ever did an exam of physics of chemistry without writing the formulas on the calculator. I just couldn't remember these.

Today I had to watch my students while they were doing their chemistry-exam. I didn't even try to discover if anyone was cheating. As long as it's chemistry, they have my permission.

isadora said:

I had mister Versluys whispering 'iambic pentameter' in my ear. In auditorium E

JDINTERACTIVE said:

That girl is certainly worth hugging!

MarieLouise said:

I don't know the name of the professor's anymore, but the exam was about comparing the grammatics of different 'Germanic' languages, and how the Germand language evolved during the ages... I think the small one saw me, but he never sais anything.

@ MarieLouise and JDinteractive

i'm very bad in math. very bad. my freshman year i had to take a basic algebra course in order to get into a higher, required course. well, i failed the damn math class and had to take it again. the second time around i took a summer course with this (known to be) crazy professor. she was so scatterbrained it was easy to take advantage of her generous make-up exam policy. this was the only time i've ever cheated.

basically, you take the test and if you don't do good, you take a different make up test. well, one day i went up to her desk and slyly slid the make up exams in my bag. i copied the answers down to all the exams and went to the math lab for "tutoring." i asked for help on the questions and then took the exams in her class by simply handing in the material from the turoring center.

i did much better the second time around!

I never cheated in college, but in high school math class a girl would write out all the practice problems on paper then copy them. Everyone would put the entire pieces of paper with the test. This made it look like a page from the test. Since the test was made up of practice problems everyone who had the sheet would get a perfect score.

Someone tried to do the same thing in English but got busted when the teacher wanted to address a question and picked up a test. It so happened that the person had the definitions written on a sheet of paper. The teacher allowed the student to get rid of the paper without flunking the student.

Once, in high school, I had cheat notes for a Geography final exam.
They were splayed out all over my desk...:rofl:.
No one noticed until after I had left, when one fell out of my pocket and landed under the desk ahead of me.
I was called into the office and grilled by the teacher, principal, guidance counselor, and vice principal about for almost 2 hours.
I built up some crocodile tears and convinced them that I didn't cheat.

But...now that I'm all grown up, I don't do things like that anymore. If I screw up, I admit to it. And that's all there is to it.

Ive never cheated , end what isnt working before you move on JMHO

when i was in high school, one of the neanderthal jock types had a test in some class and he wrote all the answers onto a small piece of paper.

his seat was located on the side of the room next to the windows, underneath which ran a heat vent/register so, after completing the test, Genius ripped up the piece of paper and stuck the shreds into the nearby heat register, figuring the evidence of his cheating would never be found. when the heat vent kicked in later in the day, all the little shreds blew up and out of the register and the teacher was able to put them together where she then recognized the neanderthal's scribblings.

he got in big trouble and the entire incident became legendary.

20 years later that same jockstrap now is the PhyEd teacher at my old high school.

this thread reminds me of one of the greatest ever Mystery Science Theater 3000 shorts, "Cheating" (Cheating! a Centron Films production. although they got the idea from another company. cheating.)

never cheated.

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[Edited 12/10/05 9:11am]

One time in High School the teacher gave us the paper to study for a few mintues and I wrote the answers down on the desk and gave the paper back to her.

Another time in High School the teacher went out the room and a few of us took a look at the answer sheet that was on her desk.

What I did to cheat is to write all the infomation needed for an exam down in my mind, so when it came to test time, I already had the answers. No one could ever see my cheetsheet because it was in my mind.

Hahaha... I know, this is evil. But don't tell anyone this little trick. I don't want to get busted for cheating.