I cheated on a few questions in an exam that turned out to be an IQ test. They didn't really tell us the meaning of the exam and told us it didn't affect our classes so I didn't really try.
I always liked to count only on my own studying and effort when taking an exam. Though I couldn' t help it and looked at another classmate' s paper once or twice.
I cheated on a lot of tests where I was allowed to use a calculator. Before the test I went into the program coding part of the calculator and coded fake programs that were basically just a ton of notes
I cheated on a Spanish quiz once. I was caught. Now, to my utter dismay, I don't speak Spanish. I'm heartbroken. Seriously. (Sentence fragments added for poetic effect.)
A long time ago in social studies I had anyone who wanted to cheat, follow a system for cheating on our provincial exams. It was a multiple choice test A, B, C and D. I made a system where I'd rotate my pencil in my hand and where the eraser was that was the letter to choose, i'd tap the eraser on the desk when I was going on to the next question. Up was A, to the right was B etc. It was a pretty garbage class with some pretty stereotypical high school idiots. I didn't cheat myself because the class was stupid easy if you haven't lived under a rock your whole life.
Sure, once that I remember. Most of the time I didn't worry about doing that. I just did it once by putting the book open in my bookbag, didn't get caught.Â
It was quite brilliant really... I wrote down all the answers in a notebook... when I wrote them I pressed down very hard so that the imprints would show in the blank page under it... the I positioned my new book so that the light reflect showing me my answers...
I would use my phone by typing in the questions on the internet,a few times I used the answer key that a friend gave me,use hand signals or just the old looking over at the next person paper.
I was taking a math exam that consisted of three questions. I knew one right of the bat, but the other two I was like "WTF is this shit". I use Mathway (Those math step by step calcualators), and the math calc was like "WTF is this shit". The professor ended up giving people random grades from C+ - A+ To this day I still don't know what the F-- he wanted me to do.
I can only remember 2 "major" cheats during high school...the 2 of them involved a careless professor. one time I swapped exams with a girl who pretty much knew all the answers, I got an amazing grade (would have failed it otherwise, and would have failed the entire subject along). The other time I just had them texted. And I helped some people by writing the right options on the calculator and then lending it to someone who asked for it. like for example i'd put 1B, 2C, 3A, 4B, 5D and so on. never got caught.
One time I hid a formula that I had a hard time remembering in the y= part of my graphing calculator. Â I don't consider that to be serious cheating though since it should be less about memorizing formulas and more about knowing how to use them. Â
In college and high school? Nope. In middle school and elementary school? Heck yes.
I was always bad at math but my friend who I sat next to in 5th grade was really good at it. I always looked over at her paper. Come to think of it, she would cheat too, changing her answers to the correct ones when we were correcting our papers. In 7th grade, me and about 3 other people who I sat next to always cheated off of each other in science.
in high school a friend of mine managed to steal our chemistry mid-term before it was administered so like the whole class knew all the questions before-hand. one of the people who didn't have it blabbed and we all had to take a new test over again.
Yes, I admit I've done it. Years ago I had this idea that I would write the information that would come up on a particular test on a cheat sheet. But the test material was so comprehensive and large, I couldn't fit it on any cheat sheet that I could hide in an open room. I also thought of using the book under the desk, but really that wasn't a viable solution as it would have required too much backtracking and page-turning. I figured my arm would be good, but again... too much information, so the professor would be sure to notice.
I decided in the end to spend a lot of time just memorizing the material. It's like writing it down somewhere, but only you can see it, and you almost always have access to it. I've learned over the years of using this method that it works every single time. The preparation time is on par with other methods, and it's FAR less risky. No professor or exam-giver has ever caught me yet.
I did sort of cheat during high school though. I was required to take a health class that boiled down to 'these STDs are bad, make sure you remember them.' The teacher goofed and left the test, with the answer key, laying in the open a couple of times. When she wasn't looking I would find an excuse to find a way to skim through the questions and write down the topics that the test was covering. Then I would spend like 10 minutes making sure I knew only that stuff to get an easy A. The way I see it she left a resource that I could use lying around, so I took full advantage.
I really can't cheat even if I wanted to anymore. Professors let you take a whole piece of paper or notecard with whatever you want on it in most of my classes.
Cheated on an Italian quiz once. It wasn't that I needed to cheat, my friend just had the answers on the floor and offered it up to everyone in the area. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't an ace in that class, but I probably could've passed it without cheating.
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