Exam cheating

liah · 11-02-2011 06:36PM

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 · 11-02-2011 08:35PM

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 · 11-02-2011 09:25PM

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 · 11-02-2011 09:28PM

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 · 11-02-2011 09:32PM

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 · 11-02-2011 09:34PM

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 · 11-02-2011 09:59PM

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 · 13-02-2011 08:25PM

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 · 13-02-2011 09:03PM

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 · 13-02-2011 09:24PM

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 · 13-02-2011 09:28PM

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 · 13-02-2011 10:30PM

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 · 13-02-2011 10:33PM

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 · 13-02-2011 10:36PM

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 · 13-02-2011 10:55PM

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 · 13-02-2011 11:39PM

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

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