Teachers, what is the smartest way of cheating you've seen? 

My favorite cheating story actually happened this last year by my eldest daughter. My daughter is autistic and struggles a lot in normal classrooms so we transferred her back to online school for 8th grade. She had a big project essay that she was supposed to write all about her favorite things and why. I help her out with the outline and was literally in the same room with her while she wrote the whole thing. She turns in the assignment and the teacher rejects it saying that she needs to rewrite the whole thing. So she does rewrite it and try to flush it out more, and teacher rejects it again accusing her of cheating because "it's too robotic and people don't actually talk like that." ... except that it was exactly like she thinks and talks and again I was sitting right next to her as she wrote it! My kid was very upset and was trying to argue with the teacher that she actually did write it but teacher was having none of it. Teacher then explains to the whole class that they "can't use ChatGPT to get out of doing the work." A light went off in my kid's head at that point... so she went right over and put her outline into ChatGPT and tell it to make it sound more human, then copied the answer and turned it in. Teacher finally accepted it and used it to show the other kids about the differences between human vs robotic writing 😂

Honestly with several of these it seems like it’d be easier to study

I was actually falsely accused of cheating a lot as a kid cause I didn’t do homework. So many of my teachers believed that you couldn’t test well enough without doing homework.

"I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it."

I cheated by learning all the material and then writing it on the exam! They never caught on! Muah ha ha ha!

For the English class we had to read "The Hobbit". In this book, there is a verse that is translated from Tolkien runes into english. Using that are a key, you can translate english back into runes. Guess who had a pen with lots of rune graffiti which translated back into useful exam notes?

My high school math teacher told me that she once had a student cheat by writing the quadratic formula on the ground beneath his desk, and she didn't notice until after the test was handed in. But the formula on the ground was written incorrectly, so the kid got a 0, and the teacher turned him in anyway. Years later, the teacher was shopping and said the student came up to her while he was working in the store and said she ruined his life

I didn't cheat on tests, but I did teach my friends in High School how to write in Futhark Runes so we could pass notes to each other. One of the meaner teachers took it from me and was pissed she couldn't read it. She told me to stop and I did, in her class.

They can’t be that smart if they were caught.

The bracelet one, that one is actually brilliant.

In sixth grade, my handwriting was so bad that the teachers and school administration in their infinite wisdom decided that it was better to have me do all my homework on an ipad unstead of working with me on my handwriting and none of them thought to shut of the spell check feature in thw settings. I didn't realize that the spell check feature was on right away, but when i did i realized i had been cheating on my spelling tests. I didn't shut spell check off or turn myself in to the teachers for cheating. I still feel guilty about it sometimes, but then i think what the teachers didn't know couldn't hurt them.

Mr D. is a real one

Story 56: The blue lens makes the background of the paper blue and the blue ink invisible. The red lens makes the background of the paper red and the red ink invisible. Closing one eye or the other will reveal one set or the other set of notes.

I am a nurse but in college I had to take stupid courses like music education to “broaden my education”. As a result, I often ended up with multiple courses that required me to write multiple page essays. I just outsourced them to an essay writing site from India. They would ask for MY personal stance on the matter and write the essay per my views, and they’d send me their essay. I’d proof read it, clean it up for grammar and submit it. I only had one teacher call me on it. And that was because I’m academically a superior writer to the person who wrote the paper. I used the excuse that I had 3 other essays to write and therefore didn’t take the time to focus full attention on her essay and she accepted my excuse. I felt bad, but hey. If I’m a nurse, what use do I have for the hypocratic method of argumentation? NONE.

For Story 25, I wonder if any students listened to the Animaniacs Presidents of the US song during the test. Also, I'm surprised the teacher even allowed music during tests. As that student proved, it gave ample opportunity to cheat.

With the whole hearing spectrum thing I have ridiculously good hearing. You know those rechargeable battery chargers? They make a really high pitched noise, and it drives me insane because high pitched noises give me a splitting headache. So not only is it risky because of the hearing spectrum, but it could really hurt some kids who can hear it. I remember one class I couldn’t do anything because some idiots brought high pitched whistles into the classroom that the teachers couldn’t hear, and of course every time they’d sound off, I’d have to immediately drop everything and plug my ears or else I’d feel like my head was gonna explode.

None of these cheat “hacks” would ever work in high school courses, yet alone college- expect the one person “accidentally” turning in the wrong paper. How did anyone get away with any of this is just so fascinating. Also this is so much more work than actually studying, and much much more risky. Edit: Actually writing in Elvish, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones or any nerd language is hella smart. Unless you have a cool teacher who’s an even bigger nerd. I’m also shocked UnderSparked hasn’t seen any LoTR 😮 and the colored coded bracelet is genius.

My memory sucked when I was younger especially in high school and had difficulty memorizing the period table of elements. For the ones I could not memorize, I realized I could write them on my *right* ankle and calf and then easily cross my right leg onto my left leg and subtly lift up the bottom of my pants allowing me to see without suspicion because my seat was luckily in the last row - my left side being the edge of the class. In grades 4-6, I often managed to sneak back in the class during lunch and copy the answer key to every upcoming test I could find. On the days of tests, I went back to the classroom again during lunch to compare my answers with the one or two smartest kids in my class who always got perfect scores. I reasoned that I won’t need anything I learned during those years and I truly did not!

Pens doing synchronized swimming made me cackle hahahahaha

I was homeschooled, so my 'class work' was just me and my sisters working with my mom/whatever outside aid (VHS, audio, computer program etc). When I was learning Latin I'd just purposely get the answers wrong because I knew my little sister would jump at the opportunity to correct me. And if she didn't have the right answer my big sister was thrilled to correct me before she could. Both of them were always competing over being the smartest, so I just let them duke it out and avoided having to learn Latin. Wild days

I was someone who was known to almost always wear a hoodie, except near the end of spring. In my hoodie I ran two sets of earbuds, one into the hood for relaxed listening to music during lunch or study halls, and one into my left sleeve for listening to music during class. I'd also normally lean my head on my hand, which made it near impossible to see the earbud and wire. I never cheated, but also never got caught listening during tests.

Growing up, I loved to read. Still do. At one point in my school days, I was reading a book a day. I never had to really study for very long for practically any class, so never had to cheat. I also went to church and was a member of the usual youth post-church group on Sunday evenings. At one such meeting the discussion was cheating, and my fellow church group members could not believe: 1) I never cheated, and 2) I didn't know how to cheat. They proceeded to try to teach me how to cheat. At a 'Christian' meeting. In a 'Christian' church. It was not too much after that I decided I would go to church for the singing (I love to sing), but the messages were obviously not biblical, and hypocritical, so did not pay them much attention.

As a teacher, not only did I do story 2. But I also used to give my students questions to ask me so they would ask really thought provoking questions. As payment I would give them an A on the next quiz.

Story 28: I did something similar. I procrastinated too long on an assignment so I sent it to myself and told the teacher my printer had been out of ink. However, I hadn't done the assignment at all. I changed my computer clock to a few days earlier not long after the assignment was assigned, created a text document, then adjusted my clock back to the current date. I filled the document with the rectangular symbol for when you don't have a font installed and saved that. It had been due on a Friday so I got myself an extra weekend to do the assignment. The reason for adjusting the clock was to cover my bases...if the teacher looked into the file details at any point the "created" and "last saved" dates would seem as though I'd actually done the assignment, not just created a document and spent 30 seconds making it look corrupted.

Story 36 was amazing, but that’s definitely something I would’ve planned ahead of time with my friends. Never give details in the story but have them planned for any questions you could get asked

In middle school I was cheating by writing things on my desk in a weird characer set that I made up on the spot, and it looked purely decorative. I also helped other students by just whispering names of places that we had to identitify on a map, because our teacher couldn't hear exactly well. My favoutire sceme however has to be when I faked being on the verge of throwing up, ran to the bathroom and searched the answers on my phone, then washed my face to be cerdible and gone back into class. By the way, I also had a second phone just to give to the teacher. Now I'm in university, and for most of the subjects someone has a copy of the tests of last year, and also a guide on how to solve them. There are also messenger groups where some people braver or lazier than me help eachother during tests, but I never used it because I'm bad at hiding my phone.

" i don't even fish" ahhh this killed me

"Teachers, what is the smartest way someone cheated on a test?" "Not a teacher, but-"

Some of these classes rely too much on rote memorization. This has been proven to not teach the thinking skills needed for the subject. No wonder these kids were desperate!

I can’t get enough of these videos

For noise one test if the teacher can hear it, use it on a normal lecture to check and if he noticies you will know he can hear it.

High school chemistry. We all blatantly cheated. For example, some had full on cheat sheets in public view, or had the textbook in their lap. Our teacher would catch us cheating , but rather than exposing us or punishing us with bad grades or worse, she would simply shake her head and say “this is so unethical” and walk away. We all got A’s in the class. At the end of the year, a lot of people in the class failed the state mandated Standards of Learning Test where cheating was not possible. Ironically, in college it turns out I was really good at Chemistry and became a tutor.

The school I used to go to has only just introduced the "water bottles must have labels removed" rule.

I love your vids once I almost fell asleep bc your voice is so relaxing

Teacher handing back the tests for themselves to grade, "It's a trap!!"

I never had to cheat... I just got high grades with low effort.

As a teacher, I was listening to this during my class' final performance task. Thanks for the pointers.

One of my college professors often gave quizzes. He was fairly relaxed on those, and often they were "open book, open note" and occasionally explicitly "open friend". One particular quiz was nasty: If you messed up the first problem of 10, you got 9 incorrect or only partly correct (the 10th was unrelated)--but if you got it, you had pretty clear sailing through those 9. And, this one wasn't explicitly "open friend". At one point, he left the room. Someone near the front, once the door closed behind him, pipes up "Did anyone not get A on 1?" General silence. The fun part? In a ten-question multiple-choice quiz, ABCDEABCDE. Tests were definitely not "open friend", though.

imagine learning morse code when you could have just learned the material.

My freshmen year of college, my chem 101 professor was super strict about academic integrity. One day on a minor homework assignment, the kid no one liked to talk to ask me for help (I was the only one that was ever nice to him) and since I was busy, I just sent him a picture of my copy of the assignment. I explicitly told him do not copy, just use the answers for a reference. Bro copied my answers verbatim. I nearly got expelled, and had to literally beg to remain at that university, all over a single question on a single minor homework assignment. Needless to say, bro, was too ashamed to talk to me again.

Not an exam cheat, but it's in the same spirit.... We had an English teacher that used a hearing aid. He was really strict about students talking in his class. So what did we do? We taught ourselves basic sign language. Just the alphabet. It was slow, but he couldn't "hear" us say anything! We got a lot of hard looks from him as he tried to work out if we were making fun of his hearing aid....

never cheated, but math had to be my easiest subject. luckily MOST of my math teachers were nice, excluding the one that marked my test a 60 (actualy 98) because i didnt "show my work". but again most of them were chill enough that i could sit back down after walking up to hand in a test, saying i needed to correct something, actively rechecking my work as i was walking to hand it in. the only thing i can halfway say i cheated in was P.E. we had to do laps around a large gym at the start of class, running the long sides and getting to walk on the shorter sides. i would end up doing the first lap, then hold my fingers to my neck(checking pulse) walking for the rest. i still finished before half the class. turns out that saved me, because my body handles adrenalin as well as it does a heat stroke.

Used to do the currupted file one when I'd forgotten to do my homework

In order to help students you should always write an exam where questions lead them to the write answers and are sequential. Another thing to do is have the questions follow the outline of our lectures. Exams are to assess your knowledge and lots of people just need a mental jog.

Someone managed to social engineer their way into getting the national standardised test early. This is why there is a sealed B version of it every year ready to be shipped

I’ll call myself out here but back in 10th grade I used to write notes in the barcode/price tag of my pen with a very thin fine liner (0.05) and hey never got caught

I think Story 35 is the funniest one XD

I'm 100% sure story 36 was a speech used in my primary school a few years ago

Had a lazy friend who barely studied but had special accomodations because of ADHD or something. Got his own room and computer (no internet) to take all the finals. He simply showed up with a USB key with all the lessons and copy pasted his way to a strong grade. Most of the material was useless garbage that's never useful in the real world and he makes more $$ than me these days so I wasn't too mad about it.

Ok. As a teacher and parent, thank you for cluing me in to what I may have to deal with in my classroom. That being said, I teach band, sooo…. Not a whole lot of written testing going on. Some, yes, but not a ton. Your test is - play the music. Kind of hard to cheat there; you either practiced and know it or you didn’t and don’t. Also, though I don’t let my kids use um…notes…in band (well, I do but different a definition of notes), I always liked our NYS Regents science exams. They don’t fart around and make you memorise all the formulas in chemstry, biology, and physics. They GIVE you a reference sheet for the test. The formulas aren’t labelled, so you still have to know what’s what so you can use the right one, but you don’t have to waste your time memorising every one and risk getting the answer wrong because you mixed up variables or something. I also think that open note/open book finals are great for classes like history because you need to know where to look, but you don’t have to have every confounded date crammed into your brain. Would have been great in university for music history. No one remembers every composer’s birth and death date or what exact year each piece was written. That’s why many of my professors gave us a 10 year margin on either side of the actual date. True story from 20 century music history: our professor was, let’s say easy going (I heard stories from classmates that they saw him smoking weed before class once, so there’s that). In music history we usually had to listen to a segment of a piece, name the composer, approximate date of composition or c9mposer’s birth/death dates, and then justify your answer in essay form (details about the music/composer you wrote down). On one test- Impressionism- we’re all sitting there, listening to the Debussy segment and he suddenly says, “You guys want a hint? Do you want a hint?” So the piece is called Nuage (Clouds), and what does prof do? He picks up the chalk and draws a cloud on the board. Everyone in the class got at least that one piece correct. The dumb thing was that Debussy’s music is fairly distinctive, so most of us already knew it was his piece, so all he did was give us the exact title.

Love the castle crashers background gameplay

When I was in uni we had a dropbox of as much of the course content as we could. We had slides, tests previous student's projects and in one subject the entire final question bank. Oftentimes the tests would be the same apart from some numbers and the order changed. They eventually found out about it and shut it down a few years after I graduated.

I went to the emergency room and got a doctor's note. When I had an illness then I scanned it with my computer. Use photoshop and add Doctor's notes. Anytime, I wanted to call off of work. And the beautiful thing about it is is even if they tried to call and verify they can't because it's a hipa privacy violation The only way. They can is if you sign the paperwork stating that they can talk about your heath with the hospital. they We're so good, in fact , the sad thing is that I shouldn't have had to do that. But the American workforce and jobs in general. Don't give you enough days off when you need them I was able to use it to make some for my friends.And they were able to get days off when they needed to get days off

During my sophomore year of high school, I was in an English class where we had a student teacher. We used iPads at my school that our actual English teacher understood how to use well, but he did not. We had an assignment where we had to submit a video interview with a member of our families. Most interviews were about 15-20 minutes long due to the amount of questions we were provided. We had to submit the interviews to a dropbox in the app that we did our school work on. For some reason, I had completely forgot about this project. I had not done the interview or any other work regarding the project. I also had the class first period, so I was freeeeaking out. Turns out all the videos were way too long and took too much time to submit and load. Most teachers would’ve known this already, but he was student teacher that had no clue. He let all of the students with this problem have an extra day so we could upload the video on a private RU-vid channel first, then submit the video. I pretended that my video was not uploading because it was too long and he gave an extension as well. That night, I shot the video with my dad and pretended it was originally due the next day. My project turned out to be pretty good and well edited so I got an A! I thanked any powers that may exist for the technology struggles.

I did something similar To the Morse code story in high school once. Turns out my math teacher was a nuclear mathematician on a submarine and he knew fooling well what we were doing. But the fact that we learned Morse code was okay with him. He told us that we would only get away with it once the next time he would have to write us up and send us to the office. Coolest dude ever

I had a Spanish 2 teacher who would refuse to go to the back half of the room. He would always expect a student to hand out papers all the way into the back and would stretch as far as he could so he didn’t have to step in the back of the room if you put nothing on your homework or test or even the exams, you would still earn 100 just for showing up for the class. The only way you got a 50% was it you did not put your name on the paper zeros and everybody passed and that was not around next year.

One kid cheated off me, so I wrote all the wrong answers! Changed it later.

So I’m huge into lord of the rings, I taught myself the Dwarf language (angerthas? khuzdul? Neo-Khuzdul? Whichever one) and I’d just right in those symbols on my arm n shit the key words for the tests. Funny story is my friends were all like “I wanna learn it” so I wrote em a translate sheet and they used it to write curse words and passed it in class. Turns out, my English teacher fuckin knew how to read it, took the sheet and said “that’s inappropriate”

Whoa, there I cheated using Disney Plus while seated with all the girls.

Took College Albrega 3 times because I could never remember the formulas when it came to tests. 3rd attempt, my teacher allowed us to use crib sheets for formulas

In middle school I was in a class where we all (and I mean ALL) came up and agreed to a cheat method. It only worked on multiple choice questions but this teacher only used scantrons, so it worked. Essentially, if you know the answer to a question you would tap a corner of your desk. Like A-top left, B-bottom left, C-top right, D-bottom right. After the first time we figured out we needed to know the question number you were on. The tests never had more than 50 questions, so we came up with a form of sign language. 1-5 a normal tap with that number extended with your right hand. 6-10 same but whole holding your pencil right side up in the tapping hand. 11-15 holding your pencil with the point out. 16-20 hold your pencil in your other hand right side up. 21-25 flipped pencil in opposite hand. 26-30 starts back over with your left hand. So on to 50. We had more than a 95% average as a class (rare miscue or someone thinking they knew the answer and didn’t).

It seems they changed something in the matrix at least 3 times in this video.

I used to write notes on my upper thigh in high school and just slightly pulled up my shorts to check them. Never got caught bc I made sure they were high up enough to not be revealed when i just sat down

29:26 or High Valyrian lol… though thats a fairly popular fictional language to learn (even Duolingo teaches it) so it may be too dangerous to try using. So yeah, Tengwar or something else is probably better and more obscure unless you’re unlucky enough to meet someone familiar with such deep lore.

In Tech Core in the Navy (electronics, '98) we were not allowed programmable calcs for tests. Because I had spent so long programming mine in class with the formulas I had them memorizes. 2nd person to ace the transistor test, first without a prior degree. 9 min.

the only time i cheated was when there was a faint dot next to every right answer in a geometry quiz. Turns out the teacher accedently photo coppied the answer sheet, but the penciled in dot was so faint that he didnt notice. I was the only one who did. I was good at geometry and you had to show your work but because i had the right answer infront of me i could do over and do it right.

I was shocked when my roommate brought up the "iPad in the bathroom" method as if it was common knowledge. I'm not really comfortable leaving an expensive device out like that but it's smart and avoids suspicion especially if you leave your phone in the testing room with the proctor.

This reminds me of when I took 10th grade chemistry as a senior cuz I hated chem, but it was a requirement to graduate. There were two other seniors in the class and the tests were always split into 3 parts. Multiple choice, long answer, and math/diagrams. Each of us would study for one portion of the exam and we would all sit at the same table on class anyway. Once we all finished our known sections we would rotate our test and work on each others. We even learned to copy each others handwriting so it would be harder to detect. Those girls are how I passed chem.

In university we had a computer science professor who was definitely not fit for the job. For example our practice lessons started with hand drawing circles, lines and squares until he was happy with at least 10 of them before you could even go to computers. And he was grading by the principle "first come, first served" which meant that sudent who gave him the paper/answer first had A as a max grade, second had B, anyone else had C max (with D as the lowest grade that meant "not passed") As for cheating: his virtual testing required to screenshot the results and show them printed (on the online testing i remind you) and more than half of our class passed test several times (also allowed by said prof.) screenshoted their results each time then edited screenshot to have good score and gave the printout to him. No one was caught and professor was happy with the results.

I wrote all my essays with grammarly

As an engineer, pro tip, look over formulas right before a test and right away write them down on the front of the test at the bottom or on the back of the exam. I would do that and no teacher ever had a problem with it and it helps a lot.

I literally created a language with its own alphabet. It looked a lot like those old cuneiform scripts. I usually arranged it in geometric forms so it looked like just doodles. I was able to write entire chapters and formulas. I wrote them on my table, the windows frames even on the blackboard. I was reading the whole answers just in front of the teacher and they never noticed, they just thought my scripts were graffiti or some idiotic new artistic fad my classmates were into at the time. I still use this language when I run my D&d campaigns. I also have some words tattooed in my arm as a reminder of the lengths I would go instead of following logic path.

well these aren't the smartest ones, the smartest ones didnt get caught

If you had a G-shock watch...my gf in HS showed me how we can store formulas or notes in the memo section. Iykyk

The only class I can recall cheating in is latin. I would always staple a piece of paper with the notes on it onto my sock, throw my leg up on my knee, and pull up my pants a little bit. Anytime the teacher walk past all I had to do was slouched over and put my arm over the notes. My school also allowed hats, but not in the classroom. So I would take my hat off, lay it upside down on my desk, angle it just to the right position to where my teacher wouldn't see, and jot down the notes from the piece of paper anytime I looked out of the corner of my eye. My friend and I also had a secret code via hand signs. It was a combination of the hand seals from Naruto and ASL.

Once (back in 2009) I had a friend, who sucked at physics on the university. I passed the test, but she failed, so she needed to retake it. She secretly taped her earphones (not the wireless ones) to her ear, neck and body and left her hair down, so it was hidden. Then secretly took a snap of the test, then sent it to me (who was at home) via MMS, and called me. We were on the phone during the whole test (1.5 hours), and when I solved a problem, I told her, like 'Listen! Write down: X equals a long, straight horizontal line in the middle of the X, then write the following over the line!...' She was using 2 indigo paper under her original draft paper, so when she (I) was done with a problem, she could gave away 2 copies of the answers, so we could help a lot of people to pass the test that day! (There were approx. 60 students retaking the test!) 😂 Conclusion: Never underestimate engineer students, because we are officially trained to solve every possible problem! 🤣

High school English. We were supposed to read a book and write a book report as part of the test. The format for the final was such that I made up a book and author.

My Cheating story happened when I was in 11th grade. Some students pass on their answers in a small paper by letting them borrow their eraser, with the paper pressed on it on the back to conceal it. Our method was also writing it in small papers and excuse ourselves to go to the bathroom at random times one by one with me or my classmate first to put the paper on our agreed spot. Then the other student will go to the bathroom and get a copy of the answers.

2:45 That is what i do sometimes when i dont know an answer, I wait until later when I'm finished with all the questions to solve it because sometimes the answer is in a different question.

My husband helped his friend cheat in an astronomy class in high school. His friend would sit behind him and tape the constellations they were being quizzed on to his back. If the teacher walked by, hubby would lean back in his chair and cover the paper, but if the teacher was sitting at his desk up front, hubby would lean forward so his friend could see the cheat sheet. They never got caught.

7:00 Mores Code: How did they distinguish the dashes from the dots? People have been banging on walls, pipes, floors in slop fiction since I Love Lucy and this has never been explained.

I used the “find the answer on the test” trick in Chinese class. Passed easily, but then we moved and the next teacher overstimulated me enough to prevent me from even being able to try at full capacity.

Holy shit!!! CASTLE CRASHERS!!!! Never thought anyone else played it omg😂😅

Back in the early 80s...... We all had the same English assignment to do. There was standardized reference material to use, so it wasn't a surprise if the same quotations appeared by different students. There was one guy who was not only repeating that level of english, but was a real wizard at doing these types of assignments. At about this time, we were just starting to use the word processor program on the schools PDP 11/40 system (it was about 40 years, so I might have the wrong system details) . We trained the clever guy to use the WP to do his assignment. And it looked really well done! We then made a copy, corrected all his spelling errors, shared this "fixed" version, then everyone changed the formatting, font, rearranged the order of the paragraphs, changed some of the wording, added our own spelling/typing errors to make it as "personalised" as possible. He got an A+ but we got some easy "B"s and had a lot of fun!

Back in my school days, the teachers added a year to our IB program as it was the first time it was offered, they wanted to make sure it would run smoothly so we were a type of practice group and would get full credit upon completion. We were grouped together not by age because of the needed to be at a certain number of students to be funded so there were a few siblings in the class. Unfortunately my sister, pain in the butt type, and I were in the same class. First year no problem, second year ended w/me shot putting one of the chairs across the classroom at her head for one in a series of insults she would shout at me, thinking she was untouchable being mommy’s little angel. Dont fuck w/a bear. I ended up staying back a year to get away from her. Interesting thing about the second year was they duplicated all the course materials and tests from the last year, I caught on by midterms and told them that if they wanted to use last year’s materials then they needed to change the order of the questions. So there I was doing the same thing over again for a third time and I had the questions to the first years midterms as they gave them to us to give us the chance to see where we went wrong, to correct our errors and learn from our mistakes, etc etc. I looked over the scantron saw a waving pattern in the answers. I almost memorized that pattern. When midterms came around again, I walked up to the teacher’s desk w/my scantron and pencil in hand. I asked them, “please tell me you changed the order of the questions this time” and got the reply, “I am not at liberty to discuss that with/you”. I put down my scantron quickly went over it w/my pencil, handed it in, and walked out. I got 93% on that midterm. I was done in about 4 minutes and all of my finals were required to be oral reports w/a minimum of 3 teachers on hand to witness my answers. I still scored in the high 80s to mid 90s on most of my finals. They could have just reordered the questions and had less of a problem from me, I protested the lack of education being taught for 7 weeks, showing up for one class every other week until the threat of expulsion was on the table.

who remembers when calculator watches were no longer allowed in math based classes? had to leave it in a pencil box outside in the hall, for it to be stolen. then, in high school, you HAVE to buy a $100 graphing calculator, because now you're allowed to use calculators. and then i get to college, and it's back to no calculators. and then i leave college, and it's back to calculators. because if i'm sitting at my desk doing math by hand, my boss is going to think i'm an idiot.

i am a pre school teacher and dont give test, but this happened to me in college math, my teacher would make two different test for each time and depending where you set in the row is which one you got. i knew the girl next to me was trying to cheat and i just moved a bit over, i was ok at math because i went to math lab to get help and studied. I later told the teacher that the girl next to me was trying to cheat but may not get far because of the different test and we both laughed.

Me, hearing of one using cursive... Ah, yeah, the secret script.

FIRRRSSTT! these absolutely blew my mid, amazing video as always :b

In a Calculus course in college, circa 2001. Now, I'd taken Calculus in high school, but bombed on the placement test (didn't realize when it was scheduled and forgot to study as I barely made it in time). I mostly spent my time in class reading Lord of the Rings. Anyway, we had weekly online quizzes you had to take in the school's dedicated math computer lab. While they were Calc, they were just multiple choice (A, B. C, or D). The teacher warned us that, even though we had unlimited tries for these weekly quizzes, we couldn't just keep taking the tests over and over until we had all the answers. She said she had too many potential questions for the quiz to select from for that to work. *She was wrong.* I got very lazy and would take and retake the quizzes a dozen or two dozen times to brute force it. No, this did *not* help my understanding of Calculus and I paid for being lazy and cocky later.

In intro computer science, all our assignments were auto-graded by running our code with test inputs and comparing the result to the correct answer. I created an object that considered itself to be equal to everything. In other news, I used the red+blue ink strategy, except that instead of wearing 3d glasses, I was just able to switch which color text I was reading in my own brain.

In high school I cheated in the most uncreative way, but I got away with it BECAUSE it was uncreative. I had a tutor who would sit in with me during my online courses (I was homeschooled 10th-12th grade) the way I got away with it, was most days my tutor had to do our lessons virtually because he lived so far away. I would simply show he a full screen during our online meeting with just the school website on it then when he wasn't looking I would switch the full screen to one tab. Then on a completely separate window (to avoid accidentally sharing the tab with my answers on it) would open a tab with a website where students asked for help and the questions would have been answered years prior to me looking for them. And the way I avoided suspicion was by purpose getting one or two questions wrong so I wouldn't get nonstop 100% all the time. My tutor looked for literally every kind of cheating method except the old fashioned way because he thought that 'no one would use something so obvious'. TLDR: I used the classic cheating method and reverse psychology to pass high school as a B+ student

Funny thing is once I would write my cheats on my hands/arms/paper or type it out I wouldn't need it I'd just remember what I wrote. Writing stuff by hand became the way I studied when I got in college many years after I graduated from high school.

There was a teacher who got an award for how he taught a science lesson. He basically taught what a concept was and how it functioned before naming it so you could form an unbiased opinion before dismissing it out of hand because the name had become a buzzword kids were being mislead about. If you know you know. But if you made it to the end of the class and still rejected the concept then at least you knew what you were rejecting.

Story 49: commit a federal offense to cheat.

Got a 100% in one of those "we only give 95 on essays" classes after the adjunct offered me "either take the zero or we go to the dean" it was a 100 level poli-sci class I was taking as a college senior, and when I pointed out I already had a minor degree in classical studies and had actually had to translate the relevant section from Plato, as well as my cited sources from other classical scholars, the "this is plagiarized, 0%" went away by the end of the day. Dude apologized and said as it's a super low level class he's pretty hasty to assume plagiarism. But yeah, best way of cheating: have a relevant degree already.

ALWAYS check for sample exams in the library for practise reasons. After checking the Physics exams in the library, I found out that for the past 5 years, my teacher set, were all the same. I was surprised to see that the ONLY thing different on each test was the stated year of the exam. Not only were the questions always the same type, in the same order, the values, numeric details were always the same, giving the same answer, year after year. So, with my simple programable calculator, I just stored all the answers. If I didn't know the answer in the exam, I would fudge some type of restating the question and then plock down the answer. Almost every answer was correct and a couple of them had big red question marks with the word "Working" to show that the "steps" written down couldn't had been used to work out the answer.

In the 6 grade our teacher would give us home work 2. Weeks in advance. My friend And I would do home work and I would make copies of it we sold the home work for like a nickel a copie. At the end of the year Ms Jeffers said we were the most cheating class she ever had. This was back in the mid 60 in a country school

Dirty classroom windows with exam notes traced in the dust......

We had the same thing happen with a kid snapping a photo of the test and passing it around, except we got caught because the teacher had 1 wrong answers on it. So when like a bunch kids got 98 and the same single question wrong he knew something happened. Looking back, I think he might have purposely had 1 question wrong and tell if kids cheated by stealing the grading sheet.