Have you ever cheated in an exam before and how?

reddevils10

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Sheep Lover

I beat the system by studying hard before hand. Heh, stupid teachers.

Son0vagun

Before what?

Alf Stewart.

Cheated in a drugs test a few weeks back.

Got me daughter to provide me with a sample as I smoked a double a few months back while I was in Amsterdam.

Passed with flying colours, but I'm preggers apparently.

purplecow1977

How?! It sounds like you're asking for suggestions..... Leaving cert conveniently coming up......!!!!

Tombi!

no cheating. Either contribute yourself OP or don't bother posting a thread

sjb25

Girls in my class used to write a few helpful answers on there legs just under or on the inside of they're skirts so they would pull up the skirt a bit during the exam
To be fair as a 16-17 year old lad It didn't really help had different things on the mind would ruin the hole exam

poa

My sister did the same masters degree as I.
I confess it was her thesis I handed in as my own.
It wasn't the first time I did some recycling as I called it.
I did A-level art, and paid one of those street artists for a load of his sketched portraits.
He got an A grade.
But actually in an exam? Never, that would be wrong.

The_Valeyard

I'm still alive. Part of me feels I'm cheating at life. Or winning. I will go with winning.

HalloweenJack

Book under the table several times in secondary.

The key to cheating (I've been a teacher of sorts so I speak from both sides) is to not go overboard. It looks very suspicious if someone who does crap in class or other assignments all of a sudden gets a ridiculously high mark when it comes to a final exam (anything over 90%). If you're going to cheat, just do enough to bump up your mark a decent amount, depending on your averages.

I was crap at maths and biology so used to cheat enough to get around 50% and get the teacher and my ma off my back. Anything else and a teacher who pays attention is going to cotton on that something's not right.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

I cheated once by asking a question here and not writing an opinion in my opneing post...

endacl

sjb25 wrote: »

Girls in my class used to write a few helpful answers on there legs just under or on the inside of they're skirts so they would pull up the skirt a bit during the exam
To be fair as a 16-17 year old lad It didn't really help had different things on the mind would ruin the hole exam

Please. Tell us more about this hole exam, and how it was ruined?

esforum

I asked the examinar, they told me the answer. Is that cheating? reckon so

I'm doing exams in two weeks time, for the first time since my Leaving, which was 17 years ago. My young college friends ae helping me make revision timetables and stuff, based on their recent experience. I'm actually thinking for a few things of forming some connection type stuff (like for one test we had during the year, canaliculi, canals are cool! Which also somehow, can't recall how, but led to us thinking "grand canal", and recalling more parts of the bone structure through association. So I am considering writing code words on my arm. Helps that I'm that weird mature student that is always doing their own thing and the teachers wont say anything because you're older than them. I doubt I could be failed in my anatomy and physiology exam for having "canals are cool!" written on my forearm! So me and my friend are inventing phrases now!

super_furry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIGUu0bvpMQ

Jamie2k9

During my mocks in sixth year, a couple of girls put the test up on the wall in the school hall, it contained all the information needed for the test and it went unnoticed. Took it down after the exam on the way out.

Jamie2k9

Jamie2k9 wrote: »

During my mocks in sixth year, a couple of girls put the test up on the wall in the school hall, it contained all the information needed for the test and it went unnoticed. Took it down after the exam on the way out.

My biology tutor in my level 5 course is so on the ball, there are left overs from when the college was a secondary school too, the lab walls have drawings from kids, she actually covered over stuff like "the heart" or "the kidney", like we could even read what the secondary school kids had drawn. They had a class drawn poster about reproduction titled "Contraception".

The Randy Riverbeast

I wrote an Irish essay and then used the imprint on the next page before. Also found a cached version of a website for one exam.

For mocks then there were the exam papers on boards.

Esel

Only once, to fail.

Second best thing I ever did.

The Randy Riverbeast

The Randy Riverbeast wrote: »

I wrote an Irish essay and then used the imprint on the next page before. Also found a cached version of a website for one exam.

For mocks then there were the exam papers on boards.

When I did my Leaving the internet was only for posh people. Lucky fecker!

FizzleSticks

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Liam McPoyle

Remember the scientific calculators that had a slidy/retractable lid?

I wrote a load of the formulas on the inside of the lid for an accountancy exam.

Gone Drinking

Jamie2k9 wrote: »

During my mocks in sixth year, a couple of girls put the test up on the wall in the school hall, it contained all the information needed for the test and it went unnoticed. Took it down after the exam on the way out.

I get why anyone would cheat on a proper exam, but a mock exam? Your result on the mock exam only matters to you. The whole point is to give yourself an idea of how you'll do on the proper exam I thought.

Is cheating on a mock exam not really pointless?

razorblunt

Once on a Higher Maths exam in 5th year, it was on the theorems, you'd get random ones assigned but I had done each one heavily on one page the night before so just filled in the imprint. Didn't do any good, I actually used it as the proof that I needed to drop down to Ordinary level. Theorems proved correct you could say.

In my final Masters exam then on the way to the loo I was asked to empty my pockets. Unbeknownst to me I had an A4 page with essay structure hints, not really cheats but more acronyms to build up a logical structure to answer a question. Probably wouldn't have been any use anyway but through slight of hand I didn't take it out. That was a proper arse collapse moment though.

MilesMorales1

I was considering cheating for my GSCE art exam back in the day (2009 I mean)
Like I was really awful at it, and I hated it and I hated the teacher, and I'd failed my coursework already, so I was kind of at the point of just saying '**** it' and cheating. I was considering getting someone to paint me something, hiding it in the room where we'd be working, then somehow unveiling it as my own. But in the end I just decided to fail.

Hercule Poirot

I totally and utterly cheated in my French Leaving Cert exams by hiding a mini French-English dictionary between my legs and quite blatantly using it for the comprehension sections - the only one who didn't seem to notice was the invigilator.

Being exempt from Irish and being crap at French meant that I needed to do something to get the second language credit. This means that my entire career is based on lie......does this bother me? Not one bit.

HanaleiJ5N

In primary school our teacher kept folders in a cabinet for each student she had over the previous ten years with all their tests for every subject. Didn't take us long to figure out that she just reused the same tests every year so we never worried about tests as we all knew exactly what questions would come up.

Somehow she (seemingly) never figured out how we were always getting at least 80% in all our tests, kept reusing the old tests, I reckon she knew full well but wasn't bothered writing new tests.

Maximus Alexander

For my Irish leaving cert examination I didn't write a single word of text and instead drew pencil sketches on each page. For the oral exam, I kept accidentally speaking in French. I cheated myself out of any points.

cowboyBuilder

We once had an exam where you could bring in one book related to the topic - but no notes and books needed to be blank, invigilators checked the books to see there were no notes.

One lad published his own book - all the notes basically.

Just one copy ! for himself.

So no, I've never cheated but the above is the best example I have.

Super-Rush

I had end of term exams in college a few years ago and our programming tutor gave one of the lads in my group the questions for the exam.

We all thought he was on the wind up, but sure as hell he was telling the truth.

Going Strong

Super-Rush wrote: »

I had end of term exams in college a few years ago and our programming tutor gave one of the lads in my group the questions for the exam.

We all thought he was on the wind up, but sure as hell he was telling the truth.

In my programming exam at the end of first year, one of the invigilators leaned over my shoulder and corrected my code. He was doing the same for other people as were the other invigilators. I doubt more than a handful of students taking the exam actually did 100% of it themselves.

swimming in a sea

There was so much cheating in the LC in my school its hard to know where to start, we should have all got 600 points but unfortunately even the combination of our great minds left a lot to be desired.

freshpopcorn

Gone Drinking wrote: »

I get why anyone would cheat on a proper exam, but a mock exam? Your result on the mock exam only matters to you. The whole point is to give yourself an idea of how you'll do on the proper exam I thought.

Is cheating on a mock exam not really pointless?

Just from what I remember I think a good few people cheated in there pre exam because they didn't have much study done and they wanted to get a fair enough mark so the teachers wouldn't be annoying them to drop down to ordinary level!

failinis

In my Irish writing exam we were allowed a dictionary in with us, and I know a few of us wrote the chunks of essays we could not remember along the spine of the inside pages, so if it was flicked through you would not see the notes.
I done well in my Listening and Oral so felt okay doing that for writing.

The Randy Riverbeast

Deleted User wrote: »

When I did my Leaving the internet was only for posh people. Lucky fecker!

Im in that weird transitional period age group where people would have only started using the internet in secondary school and even then there was no viral videos and people used bebo. If I learnt to harness its power for studying I would have done great.

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Just from what I remember I think a good few people cheated in there pre exam because they didn't have much study done and they wanted to get a fair enough mark so the teachers wouldn't be annoying them to drop down to ordinary level!

I felt awful after my physics mocks, my teacher was all positive and telling me I did well. I had found the exam paper the night before on boards.

AppleBottle

I cheated on spelling tests when I was in 1st or 2nd class. The spelling book was only small, so I had it opened in my bag under my desk.

No other cheating on tests before.

CFlat

Yea, smuggled a note over to my friend asking him for an answer to one of my Geography questions. Teacher spotted the note on my friends desk and had to give me up. Every mother f**king Geography exam after that up to my Leaving Cert, my teacher gave me 39%. Got a complimentary honour in the Leaving.

I had an excuse for cheating though, I sucked in school.