<p>I was speaking with my old professor the other day and he noted that certain students were cheating, so we swapped notes. We both noticed the primary methods of doing so were switching calculators and using cellphones. Other than these two methods, what methods are most favoured by cheaters at your school?</p>
<p>Small cheat sheets. </p>
<p>Writing in important information on the back of the scantron or on the scranton in the areas where you write your name and stuff. People do this and then erase stuff and then put their name, fill out the scantron correctly.</p>
<p>I’ve seen people write really light notes into their desk if they can’t remember an equation or name. No one can see it walking by, but the cheater can read it.</p>
<p>Slips of paper with notes on them in their sleeves or fist.</p>
<p>Keeping an open textbook on the floor next to them. [Usually in big lecture halls or when the professor leaves the room during the test. No idea why they do that.]</p>
<p>Switching calculators, definitely.</p>
<p>I have never seen or heard of anyone cheating on a test in any of my classes. Some people copy homework and such, but never cheating on a test.</p>
<p>Actually, I take that back. I have seen people continue for a minute or two after time is called, while people are still putting their names and handing in their tests. But other than that, nothing.</p>
<p>you can’t consider writing a note on the desk cheating as long as it is done after the test is handed out. On several occasions I have memorized equations out of the book until they tell me to put it away and begin the test, then I write everything I can remember down onto the first or second page of the test, this is not cheating.</p>
<p>I have seen people write notes on the back of a water bottle wrapper and tape it back on.</p>
<p>saving answers in graphing calculator notes application</p>
<p>Using a very fine printer, making a very small cheat sheet which is inserted into a pen.</p>
<p>Wearing multiple shirts, and then putting pages of notes in the under layers.</p>
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I agree.</p>
<p>And weirdly enough, I don’t think I’ve even seen someone use a cellphone to cheat. It’s mostly the writing on desk (and put a pencil over it or something) that happens in my experience.</p>
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<p>I’ve heard that someone has written things in such an artistic way it blended in with his tattoo covered arms…</p>
<p>The water bottle trick is actually really common… when I was in middle school we had people taking high school math and science level classes and they treated us like we were in high school with the same test-taking procedures: They checked EVERYONE’S water bottles, calculators, EVERYTHING before we were allowed to enter the room because cheating was so prevalent at the high school.</p>
<p>@DPTalkShow… really? No choice but to cheat? Cheating IS a choice and if someone can’t handle the load they should consider another path or decide how to handle the situation better. If they’re unprepared for the exam, prepare better next time. Spend more time on that particular subject.</p>
<p>I do think cellphones are the most common. I’ve seen that one done a few times. It’s mostly girls I’ve seen do it (not that men don’t cheat or use phones), and they put it in between their legs, and just squeeze their legs together to cover it when the TA walks by. </p>
<p>I’ve also seen notes being left out, writing on the desk before the exam, and most things covered in this thread, but cell phones was most common. </p>
<p>One kid was ballsy enough to actually have his a note sheet still sitting on his desk, sitting below the exam.</p>
<p>Oh I just remembered! This girl in high school pretended to have a cold, and had written pencil notes (so barely noticeable) all over her home-brought box of tissues. She’d take out the tissues, transfer all the notes onto her test, then use the tissues then throw them away.</p>
<p>The teacher finally found out why she was actually getting good grades (usually B-/C+ student) because the girl was a bad liar and couldn’t say that she was studying with a straight face.</p>
<p>cheating is for stupids.</p>
<p>I saw this girl in a computer lab taking a test on the computer. She had her notes sitting on her lap and she secretly flipped through them. How is that suppose to help you? It will waste your time and you’ll probably end up with a crappy score anyway.</p>
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<p>actually, this belongs in a gray area. In my book, it’s cheating. Just like someone copying a sentence from wikipedia and pasting it on your own paper. Or even read a paragraph from a website, and rewrite it in your paper in your own words. Many professors consider that cheating. Source: radio.</p>
<p>If you can cheat easily and get a good grade, then that class is probably not rigorous. Why cheat in a class that is easy? It seems to be more work than not cheating haha.</p>
<p>ISUClub i don’t know how you can compare using equations out of the book to outright plagiarism. What, are you supposed to derive them? And there is no rule that says you can’t write everything you know/can remember on the test paper while you are taking it…i consider a useful test-taking tool actually. I don’t see any gray area there. Could you explain your reasoning? I’m curious.</p>
<p>They should give you everything you need on a test. Don’t your tests provide formula sheets? Writing down formulas is no problem; they should be provided on the test. Writing down keywords on the desk before a history multiple choice exam, however, is cheating.</p>
<p>I wasn’t talking about doing it before the test, I was talking about during it but before you start after you get the exam and the proctor has said you may start. And no, I don’t think writing anything down even during a History test would be cheating. My diff eq class and vector calc class had equation sheets but not every derived formula. Memorizing some equations is a good shortcut because you usually don’t have the time to derive them. Say what you like about memorizing but a hell of a lot of different types of classes require it. Jotting down notes before you actually take the test about stuff is a good way to jog your memory and have it there for reference. This is something I recommend to test-takers as long your doing it within the legal time restraints</p>
<p>I’ve heard of someone looking stuff up on wikipedia using their iphone during a history test.</p>
<p>Maybe you shouldn’t write them on the desk cause then the prof may think you did it before you started. Checking if there is a specific list of things you may or may not bring to the test would be good as well</p>
<p>these guys at my school got a hold of the answers to an APUSH test, they had every single answer, three of them still managed to get %70, %65, and %54. Obviously the cheating didn’t help them out. fail.</p>