Exam cheating

Ellie2008

I did my leaving cert ten years ago this summer. I was reading recently about exam cheating I can't remember cheating but u can't remember not cheating. I did stuff around that time I'm not proud of but I hope I didn't cheat on exams. I got exactly the points I needed. I can remember very little of the exams. Any thought appreciated. Thanks

Lumen

Ellie2008 wrote: »

I can't remember cheating but u can't remember not cheating.

Get out of my head! It hurts!

Captain_Generic

Ellie2008 wrote: »

I can't remember cheating but u can't remember not cheating.

Are you accusing me of something?

partyndbs

ye cheated in lc did ****in class but had a mare in coll this semest

biko

I'm sorry but what is the question?

phasers

... what?

Aodan83

biko wrote: »

I'm sorry but what is the question?

He wants to know if you can remember did he cheat in the leaving cert. I'm amazed he remembered you were in his class if he can't remember if he cheated!

Ellie2008

biko wrote: »

I'm sorry but what is the question?

I meant to say do people think if I did I would remember clearly ten years on?

El Weirdo

Ellie2008 wrote: »

I meant to say do people think if I did I would remember clearly ten years on?

Did you pass English? If so, I'm guessing you cheated.

Earthhorse

Ellie2008 wrote: »

I did my leaving cert ten years ago this summer. I was reading recently about exam cheating I can't remember cheating but u can't remember not cheating. I did stuff around that time I'm not proud of but I hope I didn't cheat on exams. I got exactly the points I needed. I can remember very little of the exams. Any thought appreciated. Thanks

Even if you did cheat, I think your ability is so apparent that it won't make any difference to how people see you.

phasers

Ellie2008 wrote: »

I meant to say do people think if I did I would remember clearly ten years on?

How are we supposed to know? What's your memory like? What do you remember about yesterday for example?

JohnathanM

Ellie2008 wrote: »

I meant to say do people think if I did I would remember clearly ten years on?

Yes, and pretty clearly. It's not like your supressing flashbacks of your time in 'Nam.

knird evol

One thing that didn't happen and I specifically remember that I didn't not cheat.

jester77

Everyone cheats. I remember reading and memorising formulas, having no idea at the time how or why they worked, and just putting them down on paper the following day. Same for Irish, I learned poems having no idea what the hell they were about or even meant.

Mint Sauce

The thought police are now walking up your drive as I type.

What was the question again?

jimthemental

It doesn't really matter if you did or you didn't. What matters is that we all got cheated even if we did do well in school/college

_feedback_

OP, you should take a lesson in punctuation, and don't cheat!

Jumpy

Ellie2008 wrote: »

I did my leaving cert ten years ago this summer. I was reading recently about exam cheating I can't remember cheating but u can't remember not cheating. I did stuff around that time I'm not proud of but I hope I didn't cheat on exams. I got exactly the points I needed. I can remember very little of the exams. Any thought appreciated. Thanks

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jimbob86

I wrote down maths theorems were ever i cud fit dem! but that was all the cheating i did.....remember me and my mates said we'd meet up and hour before the tests and study but all we did was get stoned! this became the norm and i was like a cabbage for nearly all my exams,i was drunk for my last one because the rest of the lads were finished and went drinkin so i went with them! i fcukin hated school,thank god its over

TiGeR KiNgS

This topic was dealt with many moons ago. As I remember it, ' somebody messed up and said the N word out loud too many times' and the cheating SOB got off scot free.
That's all I have to say.

Jumpy

TiGeR KiNgS wrote: »

This topic was dealt with many moons ago. As I remember it, someone said the 'N' word too many times and the cheating SOB got off scot free.
That's all I have to say.

NI.

kowloon

Who are you people? What are you doing in my computer box?

Duggy747

The only thing wrong about cheating an exam is the nerd that rats you out.

Wolfe Tone

I hate people who cheat, unless that person is me, then its ok

TimeToShine

Ellie2008 wrote: »

I did my leaving cert ten years ago this summer. I was reading recently about exam cheating I can't remember cheating but u can't remember not cheating. I did stuff around that time I'm not proud of but I hope I didn't cheat on exams. I got exactly the points I needed. I can remember very little of the exams. Any thought appreciated. Thanks

That's the scary part.

TimeToShine

jimbob86 wrote: »

I wrote down maths theorems were ever i cud fit dem! but that was all the cheating i did.....remember me and my mates said we'd meet up and hour before the tests and study but all we did was get stoned! this became the norm and i was like a cabbage for nearly all my exams,i was drunk for my last one because the rest of the lads were finished and went drinkin so i went with them! i fcukin hated school,thank god its over

Oh you!

Mr Freeze

In the mocks once, for chemistry, I had a chemical equation barely visible written in pencil on the page with the periodic table, thats as bad as my cheating ever got, I think one of the teachers supervising knew well as I was right in front of their desk, but they didn't care.

Now, for the worst case of cheating I ever witnessed, Final Year college, there was a lad supposedly cheating in of the exams. Anyways, I was in one exam with him, and I noticed a load of people whispering and the exam supervisor was there too, so looked about, and the buck had been caught with a load of notes, which he had crumpled up under his jacket, removed them, placed them on the desk and started copying stuff down.

The supervisor spotted him straight away, but he was only a student himself and just took the notes, the cheater begged him not to turn him in. The supervisor probably didn't want the hassle of it.

Bella mamma

jester77 wrote: »

Everyone cheats. I remember reading and memorising formulas, having no idea at the time how or why they worked, and just putting them down on paper the following day. Same for Irish, I learned poems having no idea what the hell they were about or even meant.

Was that not what we were supposed to do??

Mr Freeze

Bella mamma wrote: »

Was that not what we were supposed to do??

True, he just described nearly every exam I ever did.

Columbia

CKWPORT wrote: »

Now, for the worst case of cheating I ever witnessed, Final Year college, there was a lad supposedly cheating in of the exams. Anyways, I was in one exam with him, and I noticed a load of people whispering and the exam supervisor was there too, so looked about, and the buck had been caught with a load of notes, which he had crumpled up under his jacket, removed them, placed them on the desk and started copying stuff down.

The supervisor spotted him straight away, but he was only a student himself and just took the notes, the cheater begged him not to turn him in. The supervisor probably didn't want the hassle of it.

I'm a college invigilator myself, and that's not all that happens. In the hall itself it's just important not to make a scene, and to try to minimise the disturbance to other people's exams, so all you do is take the notes. The invigilators will have a hub area where scripts are sorted, and there his script would have been separated from the rest, a note written to the examiner, and the "cheat" notes attached to the script. How high the case goes will be up to the department then, since they can make a better call than we can on how severe the cheating was. Punishments would range from minor (paper graded on pass/fail basis maybe), to very severe (kicked out of college, stripped of previously held degrees). I just wanted to point all this out in case some genius reading the thread thinks that there's no punishment if you're caught cheating in college, and decides to push their luck (although these people do make my Januaries and Mays very interesting).

Squaredude

ah the leaving cert.we had an aul fella for an examiner who came in stinking of booze every morning and constantly left for a smoke.It was like he wanted us to cheat and cheat we did.good times.:D

liah

I cheated in maths (dyscalculia, I'm absolutely hopeless with numbers, yet oddly good at algebra :pac:), but people cheated off me in everything else.

Naikon

Columbia wrote: »

I'm a college invigilator myself, and that's not all that happens. In the hall itself it's just important not to make a scene, and to try to minimise the disturbance to other people's exams, so all you do is take the notes. The invigilators will have a hub area where scripts are sorted, and there his script would have been separated from the rest, a note written to the examiner, and the "cheat" notes attached to the script. How high the case goes will be up to the department then, since they can make a better call than we can on how severe the cheating was. Punishments would range from minor (paper graded on pass/fail basis maybe), to very severe (kicked out of college, stripped of previously held degrees). I just wanted to point all this out in case some genius reading the thread thinks that there's no punishment if you're caught cheating in college, and decides to push their luck (although these people do make my Januaries and Mays very interesting).

Just out of curiosity, what kind of infractions would generally lead to suspension/expulsion? I take it stuff like this is actually reflected on the student transcript, right? I am thinking your future would be pretty screwed if you were caught even once for cheating in an exam.

I have never cheated on any exam. Not worth the risk imo. A few crumpled up notes isn't going to substitute a decent grasp of the material. I would never rat anyone out though. It's none of my bees wax as far as I am concerned. A lack of knowledge will catch you up, eventually.

CantGetNoSleep

jimbob86 wrote: »

I wrote down maths theorems were ever i cud fit dem! but that was all the cheating i did.....remember me and my mates said we'd meet up and hour before the tests and study but all we did was get stoned! this became the norm and i was like a cabbage for nearly all my exams,i was drunk for my last one because the rest of the lads were finished and went drinkin so i went with them! i fcukin hated school,thank god its over

You sound like some fcuking mad bastard

Diabhal Beag

Remember that guy in the Junior Cert forum years ago who said he cheated using a programmable calculator? It was a hilarious outcome IIRC. Need to find that thread.

Naikon

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Remember that guy in the Junior Cert forum years ago who said he cheated using a programmable calculator? It was a hilarious outcome IIRC. Need to find that thread.

The guy that said he cheated on the LC to obtain very high points was news worthy. I bet it sent a ****stir through the Dept of Education too.

jimbob86

CantGetNoSleep wrote: »

You sound like some fcuking mad bastard

Yea im cold as ice so i am....sometimes i stay up well past my bedtime,but hey i just dont give a fcuk cause im a thug

twinQuins

In any case it's, as you say, ten years ago, OP. Whether you did or didn't doesn't matter at this stage and you shoudn't fret about it.

We've all done things we're less than proud of but you can't let them get you down. What's important is that you're a good person now.

Columbia

Naikon wrote: »

Just out of curiosity, what kind of infractions would generally lead to suspension/expulsion? I take it stuff like this is actually reflected on the student transcript, right? I am thinking your future would be pretty screwed if you were caught even once for cheating in an exam.

Certainly for a repeat offender I imagine the penalties would be quite harsh, i.e. expulsion. To be honest I'm more involved with the catching side than the punishment side so I don't fully know

Aishae

cheated on a spelling test when i was 8 - got caught (well i WAS at the desk in front of the teacher and making snkeay revisions to be paper while she called out the words in the test didnt turn out to be so snkeaky after all)
had to get the folks to sign the unmarked test - when they asked what they had to sign i said 'i dunno its some stupid trip thing' - but shamed as i was, thus ended my life of crime.

starbelgrade

I cheated in every single exam I did in school. My justification for this was that most of the shit we were taught would be completely irrelevant to life outside school & that passing exams was just a means to an end, which was to gain entry to third level.

I was right about this & I got the course I wanted.

I didn't cheat in college exams as the stuff I learned was stuff that I knew I would need in my career & what I was learning was of great interest to me.

TanG411

I remember having to learn a big sentence in Irish with about forty words. Thinking it would work, I wrote the first letter of every word on the inside of my palm and up my fingers. I was sh*tting it in case I got caught, having all these letters on my hand. So much so that I started sweating and the letters were illegible. Just looked like I had a big ink mark on my hand.

I didn't remember the sentence either.

El_Paolo

Biology Summer exam in secondary school, I got my friend to text me the answers to questions since he was off sick :P

Killer Pigeon

I was in 5th class in primary school. We has this test where we had to write a small essay for Irish. I was only like 10 y/o at the time and didn't know you couldn't use dictionaries in tests.

Mike 1972

jimbob86 wrote: »

remember me and my mates said we'd meet up and hour before the tests and study but all we did was get stoned! this became the norm and i was like a cabbage for nearly all my exams,i was drunk for my last one because the rest of the lads were finished and went drinkin so i went with them!

Out of interest how did you do in the exams

TPD

For one test in Secondary school, maybe a mock LC but probably just a class test or something, I had an a4 page filled with physics formulae, scanned and printed, shrunk down to about an inch and a half long. Did the job

jimbob86

Mike 1972 wrote: »

Out of interest how did you do in the exams [/QUOT

i failed pass maths after cheating and all! so technically i failed..passed the rest got b's and c's...didnt need the leaving to do what i wanted to do and am now doing anyway