Yes. I struggled with Calculus in college and cheated on a few tests with a well hidden index card/cheat sheet.
The irony was that creating this cheat sheet was sort of a form of studying, and I barely needed them come test time.
Was it wrong? Yes. Do I feel bad? Only a little. I don’t need or use anything from that course in my life now so it is kind of inconsequential.
No, and I think I would’ve been too scared even if I had the capacity to keep up such a ruse. I’ve always hated lying, it just feels bad.
Yes and I regretted it. It felt worse then failure.
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’.
nah. i may be a punk but i aced my tests using my own head lol
Hell yeah, high school was a joke
No. Failure is another way to learn.
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.
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I used to cheat the credit system by taking mind-blowingly easy exams from management courses (they’re literally all the same) or from business studies (half of them are like maths for dummies). Weird minor courses were extra fun, and sometimes actually interesting to do read a book for.
Zero studying, just sign up for the course if it doesn’t have an attendance requirement, take the test, free credit! Sometimes you could even shape those wildly unrelated courses into a Minor, which I how I have 4 minors on my diploma (1 normal one, 3 Frankenminors I assembled myself out of whatever I had already).
I used to do that with a few friends, and we almost got in trouble once for telling the truth (“no, showing up to class isn’t mandatory and we’re pretty sure we can pass the exam with zero effort”). There were zero rules against this, and the only harm was to the professor’s egos, but I did get several stern talkings to.
One year I only had a single evening course… I used this technique too.
The only downside is the reoccurring nightmares where I forgot to graduate.
Once, in school, I saw my teacher had carelessly discarded a printout of the questions for next week’s tests in the classroom’s paper basket.
I grabbed it to take home and study perfectly for those questions, feeling like a secret agent.
Never got around to even look at it before the test, though, and showed up unprepared as ever.
My university would keep past exam papers in the library. This was apparently a little known fact, but somehow we discovered it, went and got them and use them as the basis for revision.
Turns out our professors were lazy and used the same exam every year. Does that count as cheating?
If the school provided the material, you didn’t bring anything to the test that you weren’t allowed to, and nobody told you not to utilize the files in the library, then you didn’t cheat
I haven’t. Learning was always easy for me. Pay attention in class, take proper notes and do your homework. I know I’m lucky in that regard. Usually I only checked my notes the night before an exam and went through with it care-free. I only really studied for my math A-levels because it’s not my strongest subject and for my final Spanish exam at the end of my 3-years job training because I could’t care less about the language and thus only ever did the bare minimum learning it.
Not intentionally, but in high school we had a test on identification of flowers and plants. The teacher was an older man and he wasn’t good with computers. He was showing pictures from the computer using video projector but didn’t realize that Windows was displaying the filename of each picture in the title bar and each picture was named e.g. “daisy.jpg”. Almost the whole class got full marks on the test except for the unlucky few who sat in the back row and had poor eyesight.
All the time! I do this thing where, before the test, I look over the subject matter and store the information in my head, letting me breeze through the questions.
In seriousness, no. But I’ve definitely been cheated off of.
