Have you ever cheat on a test/exam? Did you ever make notes hidden during exam?

Philippines
October 23, 2009 12:11am CST
I think its part of being a student to cheat once in a while. You can't do it all you know. You sometimes need help LOL, but in return you should also share your answer. When I was in elementary and high school I don't cheat because I know its bad and I'm studying in a Catholic school, but I do sometimes copied my friends assignments when I forgot to do it. Then, in college on my first year, I always study hard and my classmates copied my notes or assignments. At first it was okay, then I realize this should not keep on going. There are times when I copied to them to be fair. In college I also learned how to make hidden notes written in small paper or desk LOL. It keeps on going for a while. Until I realized, I don't know and learn anything anymore from school. I keep on cheating and copying and relying to others that I don't know if I can answer a question on my own. So I try to stop relying to hidden notes and to others and start studying again on my own. Sometimes I still cheat when necessary LOL. But it always a good feeling when you answer a problem without the help of others, that only means your learning.
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@bubuth (1815)
• Philippines
24 Nov 12
I also cheat during exam when I was a student. I remember when i'm in fourth year high school and its hard for me to pick up in our computer subject. Our examination that time is to make the image of cupid move and catch the heart. We need to make lot of formula just to make cupid move and I don't know how to make it and i'm lucky that my sit mate in that class let me copy her answer. Many of us did not know the answer so I also share the answer that my sit mate gave to me.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
10 Dec 12
bubuth and when you get a job based on what they think you l earned in college and you realize you do not know how to proceed what the heck are you going to do as your employer is not going to hand you a cheat sheet to help you fake knowing how to do it. If he sees you cannot do the work guess what? you will get a pink slip meaning you are fired.So I suggest you really learn your subjects with your future in mind. You want to knmow what you are doing when you get that coveted job.
• India
24 Oct 09
some times i cheated because i forgot many things that i have learned..
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
10 Dec 12
then you cou ld have gone b ack and studied them and learned them for the next time you have a test a s in the real world there are no cheat sheets.
@ersmommy1 (12588)
• United States
23 Oct 09
Not trying to sound like a goody goody here. But no I never cheated on an exam. I got the grade I got. I am sure I would have felt awful if I cheated. It wouldn't have been worth it to me.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
10 Dec 12
if you are a good y goo dy tnen I was too as I did not cheat but studied and learned what ever I learned. if my grades were down I brought them up by studying more. it paid for me and I think it does f or all who just study and do not sheat.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
10 Dec 12
hi madelaine no I never cheated in school as I wa s a giftred child and i studied and learnedc the material so there was mno need to cheat. I was a not always liked for being honest but with my friends I felt that the others could well be ignored. 'to cheat is to keep using a crutch to pass tests but out in the real world what are you going to do in your job if you have not learned what it takes to do 'your job? imagine a man who works for the electric coming out to repair downed lines and if he had not learned how to do it how would he repair these downed lines.,We can learn and can do our jobs or we keep cheating and once out in the'real world with no cheat sheets how are we going to do the job we supposedly trained for if we graduated because we cheated all the way through college.Think of the future and what you want to learn, what you want to do with your life and know on a real job there are no cheat sheets provided.
@solared (1207)
• United States
23 Oct 09
In 7th grade, I had a geography test, she said not only did we have to answer we had to spell everything correctly, I knew all the answers no problem, but I couldn't remember how to spell pacific, an it so happens my book bag was named pacific coast or something I like that, so I just looked down on the floor at my book bag...lol
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
10 Dec 12
hi solared but that really was not cheating you just f orgot how to spell the word and recognized the right way when you saw the word on your book bag.
• Philippines
11 Dec 12
I have a seatmate and best friend in High School named Jubilee Anne. She was very good at math and I was really good at English. We can copy each others' penmanship and we were very mischievous during exams. I would answer her English test papers and she would answer my Math papers. We also did the same for homework and projects. It was fun collaborating with her, haha! I suddenly miss her
@anne25penn (3305)
• Philippines
23 Oct 09
I have never cheated on an exam. Not bragging about it either. It's just that I am one of those weird students who don't seem to study and yet get good grades. Even while I was working, we would have trainings and I get along well with those exams. One subject that I hated in college, and still do up to now, is Logic. I can never really get the hang of "If A is B, and B is C, then what is A." If this is incorrect, then you will see that I really never fully understood the subject. One funny memory though in high school. We are required to take the National College Achievement exams and my classmates and friends instead of concentrating on the subjects and reviewers, the day before our set exam they set off to a monastery that is known here in the Philippines that is supposedly able to help. It sounds so funny and I think it became tradition for students to offer eggs to this monastery so that they can pass the exams. I never offered eggs, but passed the exams and was even one of the top scorers in my batch.
@dpk262006 (58678)
• Delhi, India
23 Oct 09
Hi dear! Yes, you are very much right the most of us pass through this phase of our lives. When taking up exams we tend to cheat about those questions, which could not be mug up. When I was a student in school, I would also sometimes make small notes for my convenience and would hide it in my inner pockets or socks…………..LOL! If it was not possible for me to check those tiny slips of notes, I would go to the washroom to check and read the correct answer. While taking up one exam, during my Post Graduation degree, I took some tiny slips with some scribbled notes in my pocket, as the subject was quite tough……….LOL! Unfortunately, the special checking squad came for special checking on that day during the course of the examination. They did not check me, however, others who were sitting close to me were being checked. I felt frightened and thought if they approached me for checking I would be in soup (though till then, I did not require to use those slips of Notes). I immediately went to wash room and destroyed all the slips and came back and felt relaxed. After some time, they (special squad examiners) turned towards me and started checking me physically, to my relief they did not find anything objectionable and by the grace of God, I was saved on that day. After that I did not try to like this.
@kunizzul (1066)
• Malaysia
23 Oct 09
Hi d_red. Well, I have done it a few times when I'm at school. I bring the notes into the exam hall. I put it in my pockets. Well, no one will check each student's pocket one by one. This is simple but risky too. The key is to make sure no one see you take the note out and put it back in.
@agv0419 (3022)
• Philippines
23 Oct 09
I'm also cheating when I'm still studying I'm not proud about it but I never tried to hide notes I'm afraid to be caught up by our teachers. Me and my classmates sometimes helping each other to exchanging answers. Teachers always being strict sometimes we are 2 seats apart from each others when we have exams. I remember when my classmates caught his leakage by our teacher and our teacher get angry to him. For punishment his exam graded zero. I tried my best to study but sometimes it is hard to remember all of it. Cheating is a bad habit and you would never be proud of your grade.
• Philippines
23 Oct 09
oh yes of course! haha i cheat whenever i didnt review =D
@jemaries (321)
• Saudi Arabia
23 Oct 09
yes! remember when were highschool with my friends.It was a filipo subject i remember.Im the only one our whole sections cheated actually.Its really shameful because its became big issues in our school.One of the teacher that are giving the exams is angry to our section because she didnt expect that our section is cheating,because our section belongs to cream of the crop,and she's the one teaching the filipino subject.So she went to our principal's office and complain us.All of our section called to principal office and our adviser was called also.And she was very angry to us.Our whole section was so called cheater everytime saw us they knew were a cheater.Everybody were talking about us,and bad thing that happened our parents also called to our principals office.Thank to God were all graduated highschool, we were thought we will gonna made it. The worst and bad things about that i have also sister who are studying in my school.And that teacher became my sister's teacher also.So she is asking my sister what is the relationship with me.And my sister told she's my older sister, also my sister know the story that our section is cheater and i was included on that issues.Really i did not forget that experince.
@ggeliee (51)
• Philippines
23 Oct 09
as you said, it's part of being a student. I remember when I was in high school, during our major exam, one of my classmates make a note in a whole bond paper and she use it in one of our subject, i was so shock because it's too big, and she might be caught by our proctor but fortunately, she was not caught. Then another major exam, i remember what my classmate do, so i decided to do it as well but on just a small piece of paper and that was my first time to cheat.
@mitalic (11)
• India
23 Oct 09
Never resorted to cheating in exams and tests. I was quite good in my studies and so I had no problem.And even if I did not know the answer I would never have resorted to cheating because I believe in honesty.
@amyson (3498)
• Philippines
23 Oct 09
well,when i was in college of course cheating is everywhere i also cheat once i made a small piece of paper and i write some important thing that i easily forgotten.well i never caught doing it once but i feel so nervous and tense when my teacher looking around and moving but lol it regrets that so one next mid-term i study well then glad i passed it.
@getbrowser (1708)
• China
23 Oct 09
To be honest, I have cheated many times on the exams. Some people hold the idea that it's a form of dishonesty, comparable to stealing and lying. But as far as I know, everyone around me have ever cheated on a test. Sometimes, if there are terrible teachers who do a bad job preparing you for a test, or the exam have begun before you do a job well. Then, people will try to cheat on a test. Yes, it is always a good feeling when you answer a problem without the help of others. But if you really haven't prepared you for a test, cheating is not a so bad action.