How do your classmates cheat on exams

Calgary, Alberta
January 3, 2012 1:27am CST
i remember a female classmate of mine who write all of her answers on her legs, well the uniform of myschool is a very long skirt so its easy for her to hide her answer sheet, I have a male classmate who wrote all the answers on his desk, well the desk of my school is dark brown. so all the things he wrote down on table wont be visible to the teachers. For sure there is the classic small piece of paper that everyone passed around. I also remember some classmates of mine with stupid strategy. I have classmate who shamelessly opens his bag and open his book and notebooks. hi bubblews admins, told ya, no plagiarism
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@boyuancy (1708)
• India
3 Jan 12
Kids use crazy methods to cheat. I remember jotting down an entire chapter onto a sheet to cheat. That was perhaps the only time I had cheated and it wasn't a main subject. Kids now use technology, they scan the sheets down and decrease the size to miniature proportions. I remember this one senior guy whose father was a doctor. So he got a plaster onto his hand and had written down all the answers onto it. It was winter time, so we were supposed to wear sweaters. So it all worked out for him.
• United States
5 Jan 12
Wow - that's pretty incredible. I'm sure there were some kids in my class who cheated, but it's pretty hard to do so in the settings that I was in. We switched to different classrooms every class so you couldn't write anything on the desk. You had to put all your papers away, and even our calculator lids weren't allowed to stay on the calculators. I guess you could've written things on your arms or legs, but the teachers always walk along the aisles every so often. I think the only thing you could do is look at someone else's test sheet, but of course, that's pretty dangerous! Our cell phones also had to be put away - we had some teachers who would fail you if your cell phone even rang during test period! I think the main problems that teacher's faced with cheating at my schools is with plagiarism. It's so easy to do these days and rather difficult to catch.
• Calgary, Alberta
5 Jan 12
a teacher needs a very sharp eye, and sensitive senses so they will be aware of their surroundings, many kids these days are good with stealth.
@secretbear (19448)
• Philippines
4 Jan 12
Wrote on her legs??? She must have been really desperate! lol I have never cheated IN A WAY LIKE THAT. ^^ (caps lock intended lol) The only way I cheated was asked my classmates the answer to some questions. Well, that was we did when the teacher would leave the classroom or if she/he turned our back on us.
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@secretbear (19448)
• Philippines
4 Jan 12
You got lucky!
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• Calgary, Alberta
4 Jan 12
the whispering method, its such a classic, there was a time I have no intention of cheating but because i can hear all that whispering I cheated the exam unintentionally. its not my fault I have a good sense of hearing. to think of it,those classmates are my enemies.
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@veganbliss (3895)
• Adelaide, Australia
3 Jan 12
Ah yes - those were the days! In primary school, no one I know cheated ever. In high school no-one ever even thought of cheating (too scared our halo's would slip down over our heads & strangle us or the wrath of Almighty God would smite us to the ground!). When studying for the Advanced Diploma in later years, cheating was rampant! I also had the classmate who would shamelessly unzip his bag & copy down his notes! I'm not aware of every strategy used, but most of them over the years have employed some of the latest technology (in the days before mobile phones!). One I can remember in frequent & popular use was the Hewlett-Packard calculator... every "rich kid" had at least one. Scientific calculators were essential in all our tests & exams. This particular brand was the first to put out a huge memory feature with alpha-numeric data recall capability. I don't know what it's like in other institutions, but here, if a few cheats get scores of 99% & most of the rest of us get around 80% - you get a situation where only those with scores of 90%+ get through while the rest of us are forced to repeat the semester!
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• Calgary, Alberta
4 Jan 12
so on college all of those halos turned into deadly boomerangs. I have never been to college, actually my position in the office, I can say by diploma standards I amnot qualified, after graduating highschool I became a freelance writer, then worked as a telemarketer, Then I was moved to a different call center Job, I worked as a costumer service. I got promoted over people with college diploma... I can say its street smarts. Now my company dont hire highschool graduates, you have to be at least 2 years in college, I cheated my luck I guess.
@moneywinner (1864)
• Brazil
3 Jan 12
Where I studied, some classmates wrote the test subjects on their legs and asked to the teacher to go to the bathroom. Others used to do a more risky strategy, they carried their cellphones to the bathroom and called to someone who had the answers.
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• Calgary, Alberta
4 Jan 12
the legs method really seemed like a popular method, let me guess most of those are girls. when guys cheat usually its in small papers.
@bhonti (1246)
• Philippines
4 Jan 12
During our evaluation exam, way back in my college days, we had the answers to our exams. We got the leakage from some unknow source and what we did is wrote it in my arms in a way that it will look like a tattoo. the letter a, b, c ,d were translated into 4 different tribal symbols.. I passed the exam, I think.
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• Calgary, Alberta
4 Jan 12
I wonder who is that unknown source and how he managed to steal the answer cheats, I remember there is a controversy where a whole batch of nursing students werent able to get jobs cos most of them cheated the licensure exam, someone leaked it.
4 Jan 12
everyone in my class cheats while examination. every student has its own style of cheating. someone keeps small chits in their pocket,purse,scoks,inside belts and in many more secret areas. one of my friend (male) passed his answer sheet to the next person and at that time mam came around to take rounds and anwer paper of my friend was with the next person. But he was lucky that he survived otherwise he wouldnt be allowed to appear for the further exams.
• Calgary, Alberta
4 Jan 12
That is complete stealth Ninja style, I think there are some teachers wholet their students cheat cos we know teachers gets evaluated too and if their students failed, specially lots of them,it will put them in the wrong track of their career.
@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
3 Jan 12
When I was a student the bathroom was the most popular way to cheat. During the long exams we were allowed to use the bathroom. When we asked for permission to use the bathroom one of the teachers walked us from the classroom to the bathroom, waited for us and walked us back to the classroom. Only one student was allowed to use the bathroom at a time, so that we weren't able to talk to eachother, but the teachers didn't know that some of my classmates left notes in the garbage bin in the bathroom. The first student carried a small pencil and a notebook in his pockets and when he used to bathroom he wrote down the answers and placed them in the garbage bin. When the next student asked for permission to use the bathroom he picked up the notes from the garbage bin and memorized the answers.
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• Calgary, Alberta
3 Jan 12
how come I never thinked of that before.... I was able to ask the teacher if may I go to the bathroom cos I want to pee. That is crazily brilliant in an evil way. That cheating method promotes team work...(lol a moral lesson from cheating)
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
3 Jan 12
Hiya Captain Long Skirts? I wonder how would she have copied back from Legs to the Sheets The latest here is Bluetooth and wi-fi... The students have grown in age thanks to technology. One did this - Turned on the Bluetooth on the cell phone and placed the cellphone outside the hall of the exam. The earphone was plugged to his ear and he whispered out the questions and listened to the answers and wrote them down
• Calgary, Alberta
3 Jan 12
well she hides her legs under her table, so no teacher wont notice, she raises her skirt a bit soshe can sneak to the answers. I think all long haired students can use the earplug method of cheating.
@FrugalMommy (1438)
• United States
3 Jan 12
A few days ago a Facebook friend linked me to a page where a student was describing his method for cheating on tests. That student decided to use technology to his advantage: he would use an image editing program to make lots of little images with his notes on them, then put those images onto his iPod Nano. He had a wrist strap for his iPod and wore it as a watch. If the teacher happened to walk past, he would just put it into clock mode so it looked like he was checking the time.
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• Calgary, Alberta
3 Jan 12
wow that is wickedly brilliant, teachers must be technologically updated so they wont be fulled easily and they have to be more observant than they use to be.Ipod nano is still big though, the teacher is too unupdated not to notice.
• Jordan
3 Jan 12
I can't say I have cheated before. I have, however, "discussed" some questions with my classmates :P Sometimes we would have questions that were not included in the syllabus, and so we would talk about it. Since almost every teacher at the school know that I'm not the kind of guy to cheat they just let me discuss whatever I want as long as I don't turn it into a social network. Most of the times we did that we would call the teacher right after it to ask her to change the troublesome questions. But all that was a long time ago. I have witnessed countless ways of trying to cheat on an exam. I have seen people rip 3/4 of their books and hide it in their desks. I have seen people do the desk trick you've mentioned. A friend of mine didn't even have any books to cheat from, I used to let him borrow mine for every exam. The teachers caught him once with my book and I was very close to getting knee deep in big trouble before he said he stole it from me. I said I was okay with it as it was the end of the semester and I didn't the book anymore just to get him out of trouble. I also know one friend who would drop some papers summarizing the most important notes in the toilets. He would then ask to go to the toilet and revise whatever he forgot. There was also this one girl, a very close friend of mine, who stuffed ALOT of ripped off pages from her book into the desk. She got caught before cheating a single answer. It seemed to me from the look she had on her face she might pass out any second. These are some of the stuff I have witnessed. You have made me relive some beautiful events, so thank you for that. Hope you have a nice time myLotting!
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• Calgary, Alberta
4 Jan 12
really they ripped of their books, Not only they cheated, they were also toolazy to created a cheat sheet. wow that is hopeless. during my school days i was very tidy with my books, until one day, a classmate of mine stole my book and said it was her own, she only brought it back when I dont need it anymore. she said she is sorry though. That is like scary situation, he almost put you in troubled. I wonder why why I didnt witness the toilet method before...Now I know... during elementary we have lazy Janitors, the toilet is way too stinky. I remember during my elementary days, I always make sure my stomach and kidney are empty cos I dont want to use the toilet of my school.
@Triple0 (1904)
• Australia
3 Jan 12
I like your last comment about your friend casually opening his bag to get his notes out for the exam! I know a few classmates who tried to cheat in an exam because they didn't study for it. For serious exams I never cheat but for small quizzes that don't count to your grade then I always cheat One person I know wrote all her notes on her leg, she was wearing a long dressed uniform so no one could notice. My friend actually wrote statistics on her table and covered it with her paper when the teacher wasn't looking. I've heard of students recording notes on their ipod and then slipping the ear phones into their sleeve of their jumper or jacket and putting their hand on their ear pretending to look bored in the exam but actually they're listening to all their notes being recited! But that is pretty clever. Another time in class during a group practical, when my teacher wasn't looking. We shifted closer to another group and asked for them how to do a certain question. But cheating does make me feel kinda bad though, especially when you get top marks that you don't deserve.
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• Calgary, Alberta
3 Jan 12
I know that one is desperate and pathetic, That person is very lucky to be not caught cos his cheating method is really like the worst. he is only an elementary classmate, so who knows he might have got caught in highschool or college cos his cheating method is the opposite of stealth. The long skirt method seemed to be popular to the girls, imagine 2 girls from 2 different countries using the same method without knowing each other. Kudos to those people who failed cos they didnt cheat, they should have studied harder though...or cheated,
@enelym001 (8322)
• Philippines
4 Jan 12
Now that classmate of yours will definitely get caught! I'm not used to cheating on exams, I once tried to but I am as guilty as hell that I would easily get caught so I would study as much as I can just so I won't cheat. Some of my classmates who don't like to study cheats to us by looking at our papers. They would normally asked me or other classmates before the exam to allow them to peek at our paper. The usual thing is writing on desks and on small papers. I do remember one time 'though that our whole class somewhat cheats on the difficult exam when our professor left for a while and the paper has been passed around. But she noticed it and we all had to repeat the exam
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@drambits (96)
4 Jan 12
Nowadays me and my classmates use online cheating in order to cheat. We use twitter to give the answers to each other because our school has wifi. Sometimes we also use a pdf reader so that we can read the powerpoint presentations during exams.
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3 Jan 12
Cheating is a comprised of many methods all of which are in direct association with procrastination, laziness and a lack of integrity. Cheaters abuse amphetamines from obtaining illegal prescriptions to over the counter energy drinks. With the introduction of technology smartphones are commonly applied to the act of cheating. Cheating can be as simple as written answers on ones show, hat, hand, arm or knee. The clothes worn by the cheater are chosen specifically to shield whichever extension he or she chooses to use. Studying is the high road and one I would recommend. If you don't get caught congratulations on a lazy approach to what is supposed to be someones duty as well as obligation.
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• Calgary, Alberta
3 Jan 12
I am not a student anymore, I just have a nostalgia with my former classmates whom i will never meet again. relax no need to preach me about cheating, I'm not a student anymore. i think everyone cheat at a certain point in their life as a student.
• United States
3 Jan 12
I remember a student in my class who had a cheat sheet stuck under his sleeve. The teacher was walking up and down the isles but she still couldn't catch him. During the middle of the test, someone confided in the teacher that he may be cheating and the teacher stood by his side the entire test so that he couldn't use it. It's very hard to catch a cheater but it makes it unfair for the rest of the students.
• Calgary, Alberta
3 Jan 12
yeah we know its wrong, immoral and wrong but sometimes it is their way to get far, though you cannot trust a doctor who cheated his examinations to open your body in a surgery.
@Renhard (3471)
• Jamaica
3 Jan 12
The way our exams are set up is that the person invigilating is not suppose to know about the subject, so that way they cant help the student in no way possible. I remember one time the entire class cheated. And what they did was to before exam scribble up their names and everything on the board, so the board would be really messy, but the way the board is messy no one would suspect that the answer lay between the name and all over the board in that mess. Only who knew the subject and knew how we set up the answers on the board could tell that we were cheating. So no one knew that time. I remember another exam where a student stand up on a desk and a chair and wrote the answers on the ceiling. But d ceiling is designed away so that anybody at the front of the class wouldn't be able to see the answers, only people at the back. And what they would do was pretend they are stuck, rub their head like they cant bother, put on a sow so they can look up without anyone suspecting. And it is not directly above them, its about a 30 degree angle from eye level. let I say I have cheated in small exams already but serious exams, I don't try that, plus for serious exams I am always ready. I top most of my serious exams in my past school and came 2nd over all. In my present school I topped overall and came first. So I only cheat when it is an small exam that doesn't determine anything at all. Well I use to anyway, i DON'T ANY MORE. Seeing that we are talking about cheating though. Take a look at this picture: http://www.owensworld.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/Fullsize/pictures/expert-cheating.jpg
@Renhard (3471)
• Jamaica
3 Jan 12
LOL a bigger salary than is. Well when we cheated we worked as a team so we place two desk on top of each other and then a chair and we would hold them steady and one person would climb up and write the answers. Honestly though I never have the nedd to cheat. I would just try to fit in the crowd but not to boast or brag but I always did well in exam so there would people trying to stare in my exam paper and not the other way around. Right now trying to keep up my good grades so I can become that neurosurgeon.
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• Calgary, Alberta
4 Jan 12
wow neurosurgeon one of the most riskiest job on earth. after highschool I was able to have a callcenter job and get my way to the top without a college diploma,I wonder how wellin would have done in college.
• Calgary, Alberta
3 Jan 12
wow that was wickedly wicked, LOl a whole class cheated without the person who is supposed to guard the students didnt notice. LOL the answers were written in the board. No one thinked of that idea in my elementary days, most of my cheating classmates were at elementary, at highschool its either group study, or let your eyes travel to the smart kid's test paper. and I thought thosekids who wrote their answers on their desk/table already brutal,LOL the ceiling is like the largest cheating sheet, That must be a very low ceiling for kids/teens were able to reach and vandalize it. wow were did he get the extra arm, I only cheated once in highschool in a chemistry exam, I cant answer equations without the formula, so I hid a small answer sheet in the calculator I used, I was caught and embarrased by my chemistry teacher in front of the class, telling me I have no future, hahahaha I have the last laugh, My salary is bigger than his
@Annrose21 (161)
4 Jan 12
So shameless, but I think it was nothing compared to this. My classmate were late on class and she entered to the classroom were we already were having our exam, then she sat on her chair then quickly grabbed the paper on her seatmate to copy her answers, not knowing that our teacher were in front of her already looking at her while she was copying her seatmate's answers. She automatically got zero in that quiz. So embarrassing to her part!
• Calgary, Alberta
4 Jan 12
wow I cant believe someone could be that desperate, i remember I had a classmate who does the same thing, she gives her test paper to her boyfriend, her boyfriend accidentally copied her name too. its like the dumbest thing ever.
5 Jan 12
Stupid right? But what is important is the lesson learned from their experiences. They have to study well for them to gain a good grade without cheating. To avoid such embarrassment also.
• India
3 Jan 12
Unfortunately what I write once, I remember so, making cheat was not work for me !!!!!!
• Calgary, Alberta
3 Jan 12
I am not asking you if you cheated, If you noticed the discussion it talks about classmates, not your self.