Cheating in NUIG exams

worry_wart

I am a final year student at NUIG and I just cheated in an exam this morning.
I have never cheated before, but felt the final year panic and made a bad decision and now am RIDDLED with guilt.

How do you know if you were seen cheating during an exam? What happens if you are caught, do the invigilators tell you they saw you during the exam?

dastardly00

In what way did you cheat?!!

If nothing was said to you during the exam..... then you are pretty safe. Most invigilators don't care a whole lot anyway

worry_wart

I stuck a small note inside a clear pen

Inmyownworld

They probably would have pulled you up on it there and then if you had cheated. I don't see them coming back to you later about it.

worry_wart

Have you ever heard of people being told during the exam?
Someone told me that they just mark it on your paper when you hand it up and you get ZERO

Inmyownworld

I really don't know.

Was it really worth all the guilt for a little bit written inside a pen, surely you couldn't have fit all that much on it?

worry_wart

No it wasn't a lot.
And no, it 100% was not worth it.
But I clearly did not think it through.

If anyone has any experience with this it would be very helpful!!!!

reap-a-rat

Inmyownworld wrote: »

I really don't know.

Was it really worth all the guilt for a little bit written inside a pen, surely you couldn't have fit all that much on it?

Yeah, I agree, like for the amount you had written on it it would hardly have been the difference between a pass and a fail, look sure its done now, there's no point in feeling guilty, ya should have thought of that beforehand! But in all honesty, don't feel too bad, sure didn't GMIT students admit to plagiarism a few weeks back and got to graduate anyway !

Tell ya what, make up for it in your other exams by doing them honestly;)!

Inmyownworld

reap-a-rat wrote: »

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sure didn't GMIT students admit to plagiarism a few weeks back and got to graduate anyway !

And in a Masters too!

ManFromAtlantis

worry_wart wrote: »

Have you ever heard of people being told during the exam?
Someone told me that they just mark it on your paper when you hand it up and you get ZERO

i'd find it hard to believe they would mark it on your paper without confronting you. i mean what actual proof have they got ? and i dont think they would have that disctetion without at least confronting you or investigating it at the time.

that being said you dont sound like a serial cheat , so you've learned your lesson, don't do it again. and move on. put it down to a lesson in life:o

good luck in the rest.

_Whimsical_

worry_wart wrote: »

Have you ever heard of people being told during the exam?
Someone told me that they just mark it on your paper when you hand it up and you get ZERO

It was a stupid thing to do because there are big risks associated with doing it. I'd say they'd have pulled you up on it there and then. There's no way they just mark you as zero because they'd need evidence that you've cheated and the only way to do that is to catch you in the act really.

For the love of God though don't tell anyone about it now, not even your very best friend. People who genuinely work hard do not take kindly to others doing things like this. If it gets around someone will tell on you somewhere along the line .After your degree if you do well people will just say "oh yeah but he/she cheated".

Fionn MacCool

Nothing wrong with cheating if you don't get caught. Exams are a terrible way of measuring understanding anyway/.

c_man

worry_wart wrote: »

How do you know if you were seen cheating during an exam? What happens if you are caught, do the invigilators tell you they saw you during the exam?

I reckon you would have called on it in the exam hall if one of the invigilators spotted you.

The only incident I ever saw being dealt with regarding cheating was in a practical exam. Both guys were pulled in before the lecturer. Don't really remember what happened but they got off.

Another student might have seen you though... Without any evidence though and since you weren't copying off another person, it'd be impossible to prove. I'd say you were safe.


If you want to ease your guilt somewhat, then...

Burns: Tell me, Simpson. If an opportunity arose for taking a small shortcut, you wouldn't be adverse to taking it, would you?

Homer: Uhh, not as such.

Burns: Neither would I. I've always felt that there's far too much hysteria these days about so-called cheating.

Homer: Yes, a lot of -- hysteria. [worried look]

Burns: Mm-hmm. If you can take advantage of a situation in some way, it's your duty as an American to do it. Why should the race always be to the swift or the jumble to the quick-witted? Should they be allowed to win merely because of the gifts God gave them? Well, I say cheating is the gift man gives himself!

Homer: Mr. Burns, I insist that we cheat.

Burns: Excellent.

dastardly00

worry_wart wrote: »

Have you ever heard of people being told during the exam?
Someone told me that they just mark it on your paper when you hand it up and you get ZERO

I did a bit of invigilation for exams in NUIG a couple of years ago. And as far as I can remember, if we saw someone cheating, you had to go up to the chief invigilator for that venue (i.e. the person who sits up at the top of the room and tells you when the exam starts etc.) and tell him/her what you saw. The chief invigilator would then investigate this by wandering around your seat for a while to see if they could catch you. Then they would tell you that they caught you cheating.
They don't just write on your manuscript that you cheated and you only find out a few months down the road when you get the results

worry_wart

dastardly00 wrote: »

The chief invigilator would then investigate this by wandering around your seat for a while to see if they could catch you. Then they would tell you that they caught you cheating.
They don't just write on your manuscript that you cheated and you only find out a few months down the road when you get the results

So they would approach you at the end of the exam if you were caught?

sheesh

A guy i was in college with -one of the best in the class- had notes written on his hand and arms in an exam and was caught I think he was allowed to qualify mainly based on his results during the year (for a national certificate)

but was not allowed to go on to do the diploma and degree.


anyway he was caught in the exam and I think told to leave...

An invigilator might have suspected you but not had the guts to confront you so you might have gotten away with it.

dastardly00

worry_wart wrote: »

So they would approach you at the end of the exam if you were caught?

they'd probably call the lecturer to come in and they would chat to you at the end or something along those lines.

I'd echo what most other people have said...... you got away with it, it didn't really give you much benefit, don't bother doing it again, and don't tell anyone!

the keen edge

They would almost certainly have to confront you during or immediately after the exam.

For God's sake stop worrying and start studying for your next exam, then you wont need to cheat again!

Ficheall

You'll be grand. 'Tis almost impossible to catch someone cheating well, and the invigilators don't like confronting people, and even then when they do they need proof.

Your "cheat" sounds like a complete waste of time, as you can't have written anything worthwhile that would fit into a pen.

Don't do it again - the anxiety will have cost you more marks than the cheating will have gained.

Unless your exam was one of those MCQs which are repeated every year and you wrote down all the answers, in which case it was probably worth it.

KylieWyley

OP, breath easy.

You would have been pulled up on it there and then if you were caught. Just don't do it again :P

meeka

They would definitely confront you if they believed you were cheating - last year in an anatomy exam I had a physics formula written on my hand (I had scribbled it down while studying) and just never thought to scrub it off before I went in. The invigilator noticed it and I nearly had a heart attack, she questioned me about it and it wasn't til I assured her that it was completely unrelated to my exam that she let me off.. she wasn't happy about it though.

Raging_Ninja

I'd have turned you in in half a heartbeat.