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Cheating in the Leaving Cert - boards.ie mentioned

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  • #2
    Doc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭Doc


    Apparently it’s not cheating unless you get caught so I have never cheated either.


  • #3
    Wacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,057 ✭✭✭Wacker


    Studying is the best way to cheat.


  • #4
    Doc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭Doc


    Wacker wrote: »
    Studying is the best way to cheat.

    No its not.


  • #5
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,315 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    LOL, great article and quotes. But seriously, it's been going on forever and won't stop for as long as there's one superintendent per 50+ students and the majority of their focus is on their tea and biscuits.


  • #6
    m@cc@
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    Wacker wrote: »
    Studying cheat notes is the best way to cheat.

    FYP.


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  • #7
    Ghost Train
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,581 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


    here's the thread

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=2055937968


  • #8
    TheIrishGrover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,778 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    .....The student claimed to have seen students hiding English poetry texts in the school toilets, while others hid notes in socks and jeans. ....

    This never went on in MY day before social networking sites and forums and the like. It's them thar infernal computers giving them ideas. I say block their interweb tubes dagblamnit!!!


  • #9
    Hank_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    Indeed, boards is inciting people to write notes on their legs and have notes stashed.
    I blame all this cheating on boards. :p

    Heard about one guy who had a desktop computer with him when he was doing his exam...


  • #10
    Shanotheslayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,191 ✭✭✭✭Shanotheslayer


    Hank_Jones wrote: »
    Heard about one guy who had a desktop computer with him when he was doing his exam...

    Stephen Hawking?


  • #11
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Are they not as strict on cheating over there?


    I mean, we're not allowed to talk at all once we're in the exam hall or we'll be disqualified :/


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  • #12
    galwayrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,816 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    brummytom wrote: »
    Are they not as strict on cheating over there?


    I mean, we're not allowed to talk at all once we're in the exam hall or we'll be disqualified :/

    Same here, except when the supervisor is busy Tweeting.:D


  • #13
    derfderf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,588 ✭✭✭derfderf


    brummytom wrote: »
    Are they not as strict on cheating over there?


    I mean, we're not allowed to talk at all once we're in the exam hall or we'll be disqualified :/

    Watch Dara o Briain when he compares irish law to english law. Everything's black and white in england while we revel in the grey.


  • #14
    Danbo!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,942 ✭✭✭Danbo!


    I used my calculator in Maths Paper 2 :eek:


  • #15
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Our supervisor for the french aural was giving grinds to a few people in the class so we were allowed to exchange answers between tapes.. Sound lad.


  • #16
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,726 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    so basically what the poster mentioned on boards.ie is the exact same thing that went on during the 90's, 80's, 70's etc....ok we didn't have mobiles but notes hidden etc


  • #17
    Retrovertigo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 497 ✭✭Retrovertigo


    I cheated in a few exams back in the day. Had a set of headphones threaded up from a walkman I had hidden in the side pocket of my combats. Spent the night before each exam recording the parts of my notes I felt weakest on.

    Wasn't very successful as I can apparently talk far faster than I can write!


  • #18
    Hank_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    Cabaal wrote: »
    so basically what the poster mentioned on boards.ie is the exact same thing that went on during the 90's, 80's, 70's etc....ok we didn't have mobiles but notes hidden etc

    Yes, but now the media don't have to actually go anywhere in order to find these stories.
    They just log onto message boards and there the stories are, all ready for them.


  • #19
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,726 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    Hank_Jones wrote: »
    Yes, but now the media don't have to actually go anywhere in order to find these stories.
    They just log onto message boards and there the stories are, all ready for them.

    Its great isn't it, it allows lazy journalists to automtaically mention a source and they have to do little to no research. Normally local papers throughout Ireland and the likes of the sun use boards and don't even mention boards


  • #20
    Pauleta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,778 ✭✭✭Pauleta


    I cheated in a few tests with small rolled up pieces of paper and tiny writing. Cheating shows initiative. It shows you have the ability to get around a problem.


  • #21
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Pauleta wrote: »
    I cheated in a few tests with small rolled up pieces of paper and tiny writing. Cheating shows initiative. It shows you have the ability to get around a problem.

    ^^ future county councillor here.


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  • #22
    junior_apollo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 740 ✭✭✭junior_apollo


    Retrovertigo wrote: »
    I cheated in a few exams back in the day. Had a set of headphones threaded up from a walkman I had hidden in the side pocket of my combats. Spent the night before each exam recording the parts of my notes I felt weakest on.

    Wasn't very successful as I can apparently talk far faster than I can write!

    Haha.. can just picture you now...

    In exam.. start tape... rattling out the information while trying to keep up with writing... eventually you snap... "Slow the **** down will ya?.. repeat that last part!" :D


  • #23
    Nijmegen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,086 ✭✭✭Nijmegen


    As I said elsewhere, why aren't we looking at the exam supervisers much here?

    Expecting everyone to play fair in such a pressurised enviroment is like having a concert with no security or Gardai present. You'll get trouble either way, but a lot more if you're not vigilant.

    Exam supervisers could remove the majority of cheating by being seen to be more proactive - spot checks, searches in the likely areas of the school, etc.

    If there is mass cheating, it is likely because it is seen as easy to cheat.


  • #24
    Adrianjh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭Adrianjh


    Pauleta wrote: »
    I cheated in a few tests with small rolled up pieces of paper and tiny writing. Cheating shows initiative. It shows you have the ability to get around a problem.


    No biggy i say if u asked every1 on here they cheated at sum stage in there life im 25 and the key to my success was alot of toilet breaks haha


  • #25
    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,615 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    Agree with the lazy journalism, do you think anything is actually going to happen? They are hardly going to try to identify the OP on the thread are they?


  • #26
    Nijmegen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,086 ✭✭✭Nijmegen


    Zascar wrote: »
    Agree with the lazy journalism, do you think anything is actually going to happen? They are hardly going to try to identify the OP on the thread are they?
    That would require the collusion of boards.ie itself to release the IP, which they could do as the High Court has ruled it's not private information... But I'm not sure it holds with the ethos of the organization.

    I hope not, at least ;)


  • #27
    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,615 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    I'd say the poor bastard is sh1tting his pants right now!!!


  • #28
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Cheating makes the most sense, anyone who goes to all the trouble of learning pointless facts and figures that they'll have no use for outside of that one particular exam is a fool.


  • #29
    mathie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭mathie


    "every allegation will be investigated"

    I would like to alledge that all mods have something hidden deep within their rectums.


  • #30
    Sanjuro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭Sanjuro


    Zascar wrote: »
    Agree with the lazy journalism, do you think anything is actually going to happen? They are hardly going to try to identify the OP on the thread are they?

    The OP should be slapped with an insta-ban from boards.ie for bring such an upstanding website into disripute!


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  • #31
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    I'm a journalist and I cheated on my job by ripping stories out of discussion forums.


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