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Have you Ever Cheated in an Exam, Coursework orTest?

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Have you Cheated?

So have you like copied someone else or written on scrappy paper for test question answer? I mean since secondary school, college or uni have you cheated in a test or an exam or coursework in like anyway or like asking your mate for answer or in any other tricky way?

Reply 1

Nadinus

1

I think I once wrote down formulae on my hand for a mock exam. I've never cheated on coursework though.

Reply 2

Ang|ophi|e

12

I'm not going to deny it. Yes. Little tests which I knew I was going to fail, I did cheat.
Big tests like exams and national tests I refuse to cheat. Half the time when it comes to that I can get myself the best marks without anyone's help.

Reply 3

louisedotcom

13

Yeah me and my friend once cheated in our mock Science GCSE :biggrin:

There were no teachers at the back of the room, and she whispered whilst still looking down at the exam paper as not to get caught, asking me the answer to a particular question and I told her :p:

Reply 4

CatzGoBoom

Yeh. I've written down discrete little helpers on my hand before for exams. Coursework, uhm, in a sense. Well, I lent my friend a piece of coursework that I got an A on so that she could copy it up into her own words. So technically it wasn't me doing the cheating, but i was helping her to cheat. That was all at college, I don't think I'd dare do it at uni.

Reply 5

space hopper

1

Would never have dreamt of it for coursework/ exams but on little crappy tests that we had every week I did. Just ones that I had decided that were pointless though...

Reply 6

tommorris

17

I have cheated at both primary and secondary school, but not in anything related to an actual qualification that I hold. I still keep track of how people cheat in schools and examinations, as it's interesting on an intellectual level (for instance, there's a video on YouTube of a guy who takes a Coke bottle, scans the label, Photoshops it to replace the text on the label with relevant material and then sticks a print-out back onto the bottle.

Reply 7

CatzGoBoom

:O Now that is clever!

That's a good one.

Haven't cheated for anything that was to do with my qualification. I think in little classroom exams, yeah I've cheated.

Reply 10

dyslexic_banana

1

My dad insisted on doing some of my GCSE coursework, including one time when he started it the night before, and did it far too well for it to be believed to be mine. I didn't have time to amend it, so reluctantly handed his work in, only for the teacher to question it, saying it obviously wasn't mine. They said they were going to ring my dad at work, to see if he could shed any light over it, causing me to panic, fearing his story might not match mine. I then had to rush to a phonebox, at lunchtime, and tell him what I'd said, so as to ensure our stories matched. Fun times. I insisted on doing all my own A-level coursework, though, as I wanted my grades to reflect my true ability, 100%.

Coursework's open to far too much abuse, in my opinion. It's probably more a way of teachers finding out more about pupils' parents' opinions, than anything else.

One time, when I had a job in a call centre, we had to take computerised tests, in order to pass training. I wrote some notes on the palm of my hand, and looked over to the person next to me whilst doing it, and copied some of her answers. My justification is that I really needed to pass the training, as I needed the money. One time, I actually accidentally saw someone's answer to a question which I hadn't yet done and wasn't sure of, so just put that answer, thinking I could no longer answer it unbiasedly.

Also, during my first year at uni, I knew someone who knew someone in the year above, who had done the same coursework assignments as us the year previously, and who had the actual answers to hand; suffice it to say, we did particularly well at some of these.

Once did a joint effort, at a piece of computer-based coursework, although the teacher cottoned on, and split our mark into three; lucky it wasn't worth much.

Reply 11

Seanisonfire

15

Yep. If I could get away with it I'd do it :teeth:

Reply 12

cheerios

wrote some formula on a piece of paper and put it insider those pencils with sticks of lead that have a plastic casing for a maths test! would recommend that one lol!

Reply 13

Eien

16

I've never cheated for a 'real' exam, but ONE time I was really bad... we had a two-part maths mock exam, half of which was done on one day, and the other half on the other. At the end of the first half, I gave the paper in. At the end of the day I went back, got my paper, took it home and checked the answers and workings on the past paper answers website. I mainly used it to check answers, and corrected a few of my errors, although I did leave a few mistakes to prevent suspicion (although I was one of the top students, so it wouldn't have, anyway) and then the next day in the morning, I slipped my paper back into the pile. The main reason was that I was extremely tired when I took the test and wasn't at my best...I shouldn't have done it, but it's not as if it harmed anyone...

Reply 14

Ad-Alta

14

The last time I cheated was in about Y9 or 10, in a maths test we had in class.

You actually cheated at uni? :eek:

At Brum, they drum the fear of G-d into you in the first couple of weeks, as you have about 5 lectures on plagiarism and all the scary consequences... They then continue to drone on about plagiarism through the rest of your uni. life, so you are always fretting about having incorrectly referenced something.

In the first year we were all frightened of being original as well, because of the chance that someone might have written something that you *think* is new, but are unaware that someone has written it before you... :rolleyes:

Reply 15

Nicole89

CatzGoBoom

:O Now that is clever!

In my exam the invigilator ripped off the label on my bottle (there wasn't any unauthorisd material on it though :biggrin:

), and at my school the general rule is clear bottles wihtout labels. Maybe they've realised what people can do? :smile:

Reply 16

Eien

16

Just remember, you copy one person's work and it's plagiarism, you copy loads of people's work for one piece and it's "research". :p:

(Yeah I know technically plagiarism is not stating the original source, but, you know...)

Reply 17

"Cheer Up Charlie"

7

Is Wikipedia cheating? Long live Wikipedia :smile:

If so yes.

Reply 18

Ad-Alta

14

Cheer Up Charlie

Is Wikipedia cheating? Long live Wikipedia :smile:

If so yes.

Nah, I wouldn't say Wiki is cheating - neither is Sparknotes (for the times you just cannot be arsed to read Shakespeare :biggrin:

) but you're stupid if you then actually reference these.

Wiki/Sparknotes are best used just to get an overall idea of something - it'd be dumb to rely on it as the gospel truth.

Reply 19

noodles!

14

I've not cheated on anything that's a "proper" exam, but I used to on tests at school all the time. We had tests in Japanese on Kanji every week, and the teacher would leave the room in half of them- cue the class (well, the 4 of us) getting our books out... I sometimes had them pencilled in to the bit of the open side of my folder anyway just in case he didn't leave :p:

I'm amazed he never caught on, some weeks I'd get 10/10, others 4 depending on if he'd facilitated my cheating or not!

Our German teacher used to give us these useless vocab tests on words I've never used anyway (but that's beside the point), and there was usually a joint effort going on there, she never noticed...

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