Curious?

sMaN

I'm just curious, is it a myth or does you're whole leaving cert get cancelled if you get caught cheating. Does anybody have any stories about it?

mink_man

lol

JellyBeans92

JK

But seriously, all I can say is if you are thinking about it, STOP

As far as I know no only can your whole leaving cert be cancelled, but you can be banned from sitting any other state examination for years/ever
(i.e. You may have to wait years before being allowed to repeat!)

wonderfulname

possible.
heard of a girl getting her paper cancelled for absentmindedly checking the time on her phone in exam.
and the thing is you might not even find out on the day, the superintendant doesnt have to tell you, just the SEC. you'd get a letter in mid july to inform you.

Danger781

Getting caught cheating can have you banned from state exams for 7 years

carefulnow100

Anyone care to remind me of the name of the guy that stated on boards.ie how exactly he cheated on his leaving cert?? name escapes me now!! slightly before my time on boards!!

mink_man

carefulnow100 wrote: »

Anyone care to remind me of the name of the guy that stated on boards.ie how exactly he cheated on his leaving cert?? name escapes me now!! slightly before my time on boards!!

salman85 i think, very similar to his username which is why i said lol

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a fella doing the geography exam in our school today put the sue honan book in the toilets...the vice principal found this and his name was on the front cover. luckily he didnt say anything!!

yurmothrintites

Yes, to put it simply. People get caught every year. Often superintendents don't report it because of the severe penalty of the seven year ban enforced but it happens more than you think.

wonderfulname

Salman85 "had a fully programmable calculator with a one gig flash card, my examiner was a dope"

carefulnow100

mink_man wrote: »

salman85 i think, very similar to his username which is why i said lol

Lol is right I see what your thinking there well copped!!!!!;)

carefulnow100

wonderfulname wrote: »

Salman85 "had a fully programmable calculator with a one gig flash card, my examiner was a dope"

Yeah I remember reading that thread and thinking oh lord on boards like??

He was pure ragin when someone found him on bebo was it?

sMaN

nah i did my leaving cert last year. i know that you can get banned for 7 years, but i was just wondering if anybody has heard of it happening before, or if it's just used to scare people.

carefulnow100

Sorry I just realised I went off topic on my other posts, and yeah the whole seven year thing is true and im pretty sure its happened before. But still its like everything for every one person they catch cheating think of how many they dont catch!!

wonderfulname

carefulnow100 wrote: »

Yeah I remember reading that thread and thinking oh lord on boards like??

He was pure ragin when someone found him on bebo was it?

was indeed, original thread is still here and all, abet minus the initial confession...

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055315462&page=1

Danger781

OP: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055315462

Danger781

Oops I'm too late

carefulnow100

wonderfulname wrote: »

was indeed, original thread is still here and all, abet minus the initial confession...

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055315462&page=1

That thread is epic! gotta love a new thread that bring old memorys floodin' back:D

dannydfc

A fella got caught cheating and got ****ed over obviously.

However he was able to repeat the following year like, he had notes in his calculator or something.

Danger781

Friend of mine got accused of cheating actually.. He has his iPod out on the desk and one of the supervisors was not happy about it :eek:

DB10

I went into the toilet in the exam today, in the toilet next to me I could hear someone turning the pages of a book.

I kinda left a bit quicker then...:pac:

carefulnow100

dannydfc wrote: »

A fella got caught cheating and got ****ed over obviously.

However he was able to repeat the following year like, he had notes in his calculator or something.

Was this fellas boards.ie username salman85 by any chance:p

CantStandMeNow

dannydfc wrote: »

A fella got caught cheating and got ****ed over obviously.

However he was able to repeat the following year like, he had notes in his calculator or something.

It's IN the calculator.. It's so simple! Cue Owen Wilson running into the exam centre and smashing the calculator off the ground.

imissplaytv

Leah Yummy Stowaway wrote: »

a fella doing the geography exam in our school today put the sue honan book in the toilets...the vice principal found this and his name was on the front cover. luckily he didnt say anything!!

I wouldn't be too sure about that!!!;)

dannydfc

carefulnow100 wrote: »

Was this fellas boards.ie username salman85 by any chance:p

No it wasn't him.

Ferris_Bueller

Just read that thread about the guy cheating in his Leaving a year or two ago - :eek:

Couldn't believe the amount of people who freaked out at him, it's only an exam for crying out loud, people going on as if he was a murderer. Does anyone know what actually happened in the end? Hopefully he got away with it, I say fair play to him for taking the risk and for cheating the system.

What would peoples general attitudes be towards cheating just out of curiosity? Personally I wouldn't take the risk but if you do - fair play.

wonderfulname

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

Just read that thread about the guy cheating in his Leaving a year or two ago - :eek:

Couldn't believe the amount of people who freaked out at him, it's only an exam for crying out loud, people going on as if he was a murderer. Does anyone know what actually happened in the end? Hopefully he got away with it, I say fair play to him for taking the risk and for cheating the system.

http://www.herald.ie/national-news/leaving-cert-cheat-in-hot-water-1420306.html
Article on salman85

randylonghorn

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

What would peoples general attitudes be towards cheating just out of curiosity? .

When someone "cheats the system" they also cheat the people who played fair.

Why should that be ok?

Ferris_Bueller

randylonghorn wrote: »

When someone "cheats the system" they also cheat the people who played fair.

Why should that be ok?

Not saying it's fair, but life isn't always fair. Why should he care about anyone else doing their exams?

(btw if my post is going to open up a can of worms feel free to delete it:o don't want it starting up mark 2 of that thread!)

carefulnow100

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

Just read that thread about the guy cheating in his Leaving a year or two ago - :eek:

Couldn't believe the amount of people who freaked out at him, it's only an exam for crying out loud, people going on as if he was a murderer. Does anyone know what actually happened in the end? Hopefully he got away with it, I say fair play to him for taking the risk and for cheating the system.

What would peoples general attitudes be towards cheating just out of curiosity? Personally I wouldn't take the risk but if you do - fair play.

I remember someone saying shur if you can get away with it what harm will come?

Sean Fitzgearld and anglo Irish bank " getting away with it" springs to mind. All that taxpayers money going to bail out these banks!!

Anyway this aint no political thread so I do see where your coming from, but I honeslty feel so so sorry to anyone who feels they have to cheat on the leaving cert. IMO there complete idiots who cant put the time in like everyone else. We should all tak pity on them cause they have to live there lives knowing there cheating cnuts!

randylonghorn

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

Not saying it's fair, but life isn't always fair. Why should he care about anyone else doing their exams?

True, life isn't always fair. In fact, it very often isn't fair.

But the LC exam is at least one thing that strives very hard to be fair, within its limitations (I will restrain myself from diving into curricular issues or quoting Howard Gardner! )

And I think the real issue with your question is about personal honesty and what used to be called honour, a word which has sadly fallen into disuse.

Cheat in the LC, get away with it. Other people suffer. Why should he care about anyone else?

Cheat in business, in politics, in life. Other people suffer. Why should he care about anyone else?

Is that really the kind of world you are happy to grow up in, Ferris?

imissplaytv

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

Just read that thread about the guy cheating in his Leaving a year or two ago - :eek:

Couldn't believe the amount of people who freaked out at him, it's only an exam for crying out loud, people going on as if he was a murderer. Does anyone know what actually happened in the end? Hopefully he got away with it, I say fair play to him for taking the risk and for cheating the system.

What would peoples general attitudes be towards cheating just out of curiosity? Personally I wouldn't take the risk but if you do - fair play.

Once a cheat, always a cheat, a fraudster, he's probably in goverment now.:(

Oh Sheesh Yall Twas A Dream

imissplaytv wrote: »

Once a cheat, always a cheat, a fraudster, he's probably in goverment now.:(

Ya have to give him credit though,he has balls. If I cheated I would be bricking it going in.

imissplaytv

Oh Sheesh Yall Twas A Dream wrote: »

Ya have to give him credit though,he has balls. If I cheated I would be bricking it going in.

Em, sure you would cover your ass though and keep in mind that Big Brother is watching, you wouldn't publicise it on the web with a link to your Bebo page now would ya, bit of an idiot now he looks!!:D

sMaN wrote: »

I'm just curious, is it a myth or does you're whole leaving cert get cancelled if you get caught cheating. Does anybody have any stories about it?

Looking at the posters name, I reckon he's just:D out of prison and trying to stir up memories of his first crime.

randylonghorn

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Ferris_Bueller

randylonghorn wrote: »

True, life isn't always fair. In fact, it very often isn't fair.

Cheat in the LC, get away with it. Other people suffer. Why should he care about anyone else?

Cheat in business, in politics, in life. Other people suffer. Why should he care about anyone else?

Is that really the kind of world you are happy to grow up in, Ferris?

Touché.

I suppose the way I'm thinking of it is just that many people are taking this whole Leaving Cert too serious (probably won't get many agreeing with me in a LC forum!) and went beserk over what I would class as intelligent - although admittedly unfair.

Your point about other people suffering is also a good one when compared to if he kept this up in other aspects of later life, I guess in my opinion a line just must be drawn, as I think there are far more bigger and important things in life than an exam.

Anyways its getting late (3:18 wtf:eek:) and I'm starting to go completely off the subject, so I'll stop rambling on and call it a night.

Oh Sheesh Yall Twas A Dream

imissplaytv wrote: »

Em, sure you would cover your ass though and keep in mind that Big Brother is watching, you wouldn't publicise it on the web with a link to your Bebo page now would ya, bit of an idiot now he looks!!:D

It would actually fairly easy to cheat in the exam if you took your calculator apart and replaced the internals with a modified one, no one would no the difference.What a gob****e thought I'd say all his friends found out.Its not too bad when you cheat when your the only one who knows your cheating.

randylonghorn

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

I suppose the way I'm thinking of it is just that many people are taking this whole Leaving Cert too serious (probably won't get many agreeing with me in a LC forum!) ... as I think there are far more bigger and important things in life than an exam.

I actually agree with that, just not with where your thinking took you from there!

Good-night!

imissplaytv

randylonghorn wrote: »

I actually agree with that, just not with where your thinking took you from there!

Good-night!

Thanks for the instructions and the welcome.

The whole Leaving Cert thing is absolutely crazy and imo the parents are the ones putting the pressure on. God help those kids, in tens years time they won't even remember their results.

Nite now.

Mick Daly

This was the person who cheated a few years back.

<snip>

Pic deleted, there's no need to drag him through boards again, the matter has presumably been dealt with by the competent authorities.

Nor do we need to know where he is from, that is irrelevant to the whole incident.

Duffman'05

I have to say,

I don't think I'd hold a grudge against anyone who did a bit of cheating in a compulsory LC subect that they were not counting for points and was in no way related to their CAO choices.

I mean, personally I just think it's madness that someone who wants to do English in UCD, for example, and achieves the required points honestly could miss out on it because they failed ordinary level Irish or Maths for example, not through laziness obviously (that's inexcusable) but just due to an inability to deal with foreign languages or algebra.

That's my two cents any ways...

EuropeanSon

Duffman'05 wrote: »

I have to say,

I don't think I'd hold a grudge against anyone who did a bit of cheating in a compulsory LC subect that they were not counting for points and was in no way related to their CAO choices.

I mean, personally I just think it's madness that someone who wants to do English in UCD, for example, and achieves the required points honestly could miss out on it because they failed ordinary level Irish or Maths for example, not through laziness obviously (that's inexcusable) but just due to an inability to deal with foreign languages or algebra.

That's my two cents any ways...

Irish is a foreign language now?

Compton

Irish is a joke. That;s what it is. Why the hell do I have to pass Irish to get my course which is in business? It's stupid.

chaoticmess

EuropeanSon wrote: »

Irish is a foreign language now?

Irish isn't "foreign" to the country but I think what he meant by it was a "second language."