Kind of. A college professor assigned a programming assignment for homework which I swear we had not covered the material required to implement it in class. They had however lazily assigned it from the textbook. So I went onto eMule (I know, right?) and found to teacher’s guide and worked backwards from the solution to try to understand it. Then I wrote my own solution. It still didn’t work perfectly though lol.
Oh once in high school, the smart kid memorised the multiple choice answers to the science test which they had in first period. They shared it at lunch time. We all memorised it or wrote it on something like an eraser. Needless to say, the next day, the whole class was given a new test and a firm talking to.
No, worst academic misconduct I’ve done is a written one page report that was questionably close to plagiarism.
Define “cheating”.
I looked up an online answer key for the last test I took. The test was take-home and open book, and the teacher repeatedly said that we could use ANY resource to complete the test. I spent hours scouring the course material trying to find some of the answers, and they just weren’t there; the course simply didn’t cover some areas of the test at all. Or even mention them. It turned out that there were several version of the course that I took, and the teach taught one version, but used the test for a different version.
Is that “cheating”? I don’t know. I did all the parts that I could without looking online, but I’m still not happy that I needed to look online in order to complete a course ‘successfully’.
Only once. By remembering more-or-less all answers to a test that were given by a professor.
Isn’t that just… Learning?
Yeah. My D average, undiagnosed ADHD brain wasn’t about to let me make it through high school the conventional route.
same thing.
ADHD makes highschool a nightmare.
if it wasn’t for cheating in tests I would have failed highschool even harder. I did end up failing anyways, the kicker. the hypoerfocus I used to make my cheating utensil ended up being great study. so when I prepared for cheating I ended up doing fine, even if I didn’t use any cheats in the test.
I’m not stupid, and ended up getting a GED (I wasn’t American, but it counted as highschool and it was so much easier to attain, and opened the doors to UNI), got a bachelors, and then a PhD.
Not on my own behalf, but have helped others a couple of times.
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I’ve smuggled things into tests just to see if I could, but I’ve never actually used that to answer something.
We had TI-89 calculators in school. You could load programs on it to show, step by step, how to do quadratic equations. Another teacher in a history class was more manipulable and the students convinced them to allow us to bring in calculators to calculate the difference between dates, and they agreed. So we loaded our calculator up with notes from the computer.
You might be the reason for my story. I helped a bunch of other people cheat but I didn’t, and it was not directly intentional.
We had TI-89s too but we were required to erase all memory and show the output message to the teacher to be allowed to use it.
I was really into some game on my calculator and didn’t want to lose it from wiping my memory. So, I wrote a program that would mimic all the steps as if you erased it and return the same output at the end. Everybody was asking me to share it and they used it on the next test. I did too but I didn’t have anything saved to use to cheat.
Nope. I chose to go to school and paid to get educated, not to get grades and piece of paper. No cheating, no cramming … I would only have been paying to cheat myself.
Hell yeah, high school was a joke
Yes and I regretted it. It felt worse then failure.
Na, tests were too much fun to waste on cheating.
I had a professor in college who would do 10 question pop quizzes from time to time. He would always have the answer key stapled to the front of the envelope as he passed them out. I have good spatial recognition and would always crack a joke to him when he got to me just so he’d pause for a second and I could memorize the pattern real quick. I’d fill out the answers in under 30 seconds and just pretend I took it.
🤔 sounds like you had a pretty smart professor if he walked around displaying the answers to his quiz…
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