Ever cheat on a final?
- Thread starter Chipper
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I proctored a Hist 222 test Spring 1999. Some kid in the balcony at Curtiss obviously had a cheat sheet in his burnt orange Texas baseball cap. Everytime I moved away from him, he took his cap off and put it on the desk where he could see his notes. When I moved towards him, he replaced the cap on his head. I bet I made that idiot take his hat off and put it back on 100 times in 1 1/2 hours. Probably had 30 other students cheating right under my nose because I was too busy ******* with the kid in the hat.
I only cheat if its a large lecture and I have absolutely no idea what the answer is. And when/if I cheat, I make sure the person I'm cheating off of has a clue of whats going on. So, I will compare an answer I know is right with their's and see if they got it correct as well.
Now, if that lecture has 6-7 different test versions. Then I'm SOL. :biglaugh:
I'm also very experienced in typing formulas and key notes into my graphing calculator. However, as long as they aren't banned from the test I don't see that as cheating, just using my resources.
Now, if that lecture has 6-7 different test versions. Then I'm SOL. :biglaugh:
I'm also very experienced in typing formulas and key notes into my graphing calculator. However, as long as they aren't banned from the test I don't see that as cheating, just using my resources.
This is exactly how I look at it. You have the $100 calculator, you're just using all it's functions. No different than using addition or subtraction on it, which are also functions. Some things are just a convenience, like I've got a program that does the quadratic formula for me so I don't have to do all the work every damn time.
Has anybody else realized that the Asian kids have the most intensive complex cheating system of anybody? We had a girl in our beverages class and after whiskey day we went to Peoples (we were in no shape for any more classes that day) and she explained it to us.
I won't say I never cheated. I did cheat once, on that stupid business analysis thing we had to do in Accounting 285. I honestly still think about it pretty often because it's just not in my nature to cheat on things and I still feel bad about it.
I agree with you about college though - in general unless you are in a very specialized field I think it is mostly a waste of time and money. I went to college and my brother did not but he is better than I am in everything I studied.
haha, perhaps. Or perhaps he determined that the possible rewards were worth the risk and he just had to manage the potential pitfalls.... of course he failed at that as well as the final. Perhaps we can chalk that up as poetic justice.
Agreed, it's a joke. In the four years or more you take classes, you could make money and learn 20x as much on the job.
This is a high school story, but in physics class I noticed the guy next to me cheating off my test, so I wrote down the wrong answers, mixed in with a few right ones. As soon as he turned in his paper, I went back and corrected them. :smile:
I also know of people that do that. If they know somebody is copying them, they fill in the wrong bubbles on purpose and when the person leaves, they will go back and fill in the correct ones. :biglaugh:
Yeah, I don't know if I would do it on a bubble sheet because the erasure might not be clean enough and you could hurt yourself too. :smile:
I think I only did that the one time, but it was funny, because when we got our tests back, I said, "That's what you get for cheating" and he denied it, but his score was less than 50%.
I wonder if they're still using the same business law tests that everyone on campus had a copy of? 
I wonder if they're still using the same business law tests that everyone on campus had a copy of?
Yes. :biglaugh:
Hopefully 316 is the same way since I have that this spring.
