<p>Cheating’s quite ridiculous. My friend told me that she cheated on a test by leaving her notes open on the floor. In plain view. And the teacher didn’t even say anything…About as low-tech as it gets I think.</p>
<p>Most cheating is good ol’ giraffe neckin’ it and just looking over someone else’s shoulder. Or kids whispering to each other. Other times it will be a cheat sheet hidden under their leg.
The only high-tech stuff ive ever seen is just texting someone or kids going to the bathroom and then googling stuff on their phones.</p>
<p>Also, herp derps, just because he/she went to mexico doesnt mean he/she went to a resort. Sure it’s a possibility, but I know a kid who goes to a run down little hut in the countryside of mexico to see his grandparents. No internet, no phone.
So yeah, educate yourselves.</p>
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<p>I think that is one of the bigger problems in classrooms now. Limited ability for help to catch up or even extra help if you have been in class! My son will go to school sick and would never consider going on a 2 week trip unless he was part of a school trip or an urgent family matter. So if the Mexico trip was pleasure, not sure you will get much sympathy. For the strep…much sympathy!</p>
<p>I go to a private school and the policy is basically caught cheating = kicked out. So there’s no cheating here.</p>
<p>Why don’t teachers do this: open book, open notes test.</p>
<p>Of course, that means that the test will have questions that actually require thinking about them, rather than just looking up the answer in the book. But, in some ways, it would be more reflective of real life problems than a typical closed book test.</p>
<p>ucbalumnus, so many high school courses are AP courses, so the teachers need to prepare students for those exams.</p>
<p>Is it really all that easy to cheat ~_~ like isn’t there always a teacher nearby or right behind you just staring at you and making you all paranoid and whatnot?</p>
<p>Anything that can be cheated on is not worth learning. Whats the point of learning something that can be referred to in text book or on the internet. Like a previous poster tests should test actual application of knowledge. For example instead of asking the date of a battle in the Civil War a better questions would be the impacts of that battle the effect on the war effort.</p>
<p>I agree with @Ivygolfer. Why cheat? If you came to learn, study hard and try your best. Test nowadays should be about application, and little petty facts that anyone can figure out like dates and etc. It takes me a LONG time for me to process information, and it’s really troublesome, but I try hard and do it without cheating.</p>
<p>I’m a senior in high school and waaaay more people cheat then teachers realize. Mainly students due it bc the material is really hard or they don’t have enough time(or are too lazy to study) for a test. A lot of teachers at my school (APs/Honors classes) require an INSANE amout of reading/work so its hard to keep up…not impossible. but i have seen really creative cheating methods and extremely dumb students get higher GPAs then me bc of cheating</p>
<p>I go to an average high school, and all the classes that you can easily cheat in aren’t worthwhile classes anyway. In my history class, you can literally just ask the person next to you. The teacher doesn’t care if you talk. My friend has gotten literally every test answer in that class from me for this whole year. I doubt you’d need any fancy cheating devices at my school. My math teacher makes up two tests and passes each version out one seat apart so that the person next to you doesn’t have the same answers as you, but that’s about as far as it goes in terms of cheating prevention.</p>
<p>I knew a guy that would write notes in Braille, and put them in his pocket during tests. Not “high tech”, but still pretty clever.</p>
<p>well, on take home quizzes and sometimes tests, I enlist the help of my comrade but it helps me better myself in preparation for the finals so I guess that is ok. </p>
<p>New topic: How about stealing from walmart? THey’re an evil empire therefore I can justify stealing from them (and that new ti-inspire calculator looks attractive right about now). Look, it’s not stealing or cheating unless you get caught. Plus, I tend to view myself as Robbin Hood. I take from walmart (the rich) and give to me (the poor). Robbin Hood was not demonized, so why should I?</p>
<p>So what do you think of a small west coast private school that pushes the PSAT back to the evening (6PM)at the request of a new student who just transferred from the east coast? (She hated to miss valuable class time due to a silly old test) The test was taken at the end of the class day. Interesting enough the student who requested the time change got a headache at lunchtime,missed afternoon classes,had to retire to her room but was better in time for the PSAT. Amazingly,she did extremely well on the test.</p>
<p>I go to a private school (still in high school) and cheating occurs so often that students are used to it. It’s funny how my school prides itself academically, but more than 50% of students in the top decile cheat.</p>
<p>Some methods of cheating I’ve seen:
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[<em>]Students taking pictures of tests and giving them to students from other periods
[</em>]Scantron switching
[<em>]Leaving/picking up answers in bathrooms during exams
[</em>]Changing answers after the test is given back and claiming the teacher made an error
[<em>]On in class essays where we use our own paper, students use white colored pencil to write notes
[</em>]People who are multilingual write the answers in different languages and have them out in open areas. (Teachers usually think it’s just homework for another class.)
[li]People stretch rubber bands and write notes in pen. They wear it as a wristband and re-stretch the part that they know has the answers. Most people use this to fit more text in a smaller space.[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>On top of that, someone I know quite well paid another kid $300 to take the SAT for him. On picture day, one kid took pictures for two student IDs and used that to get into the SAT testing room. He ended up getting a 2200+ for him (when the other kid got around 1900 by himself). CollegeBoard apparently found out that the handwriting was too different (not to mention a sudden 300+ point increase).</p>
<p>There’s also a common misconception that dumb kids cheat more often. They don’t. They don’t care enough to cheat and it’s almost always the people in advanced classes who cheat. On a somewhat related note, one of the most prominent straight-A cheaters from my school ended up getting in Columbia ED this year via a swimming commitment, but she still freaks out over every test and hides notes during tests. </p>
<p>Personally, I cheat all the time. I just don’t know what the questions are so I just spend hours memorizing all of the material in the book and learning about all the types of questions that could come up. In the end I usually get the same grades as those who implement other creative methods, but I guess my method’s not really popular because nobody else seems to do it.</p>
<p>That is not cheating to memorize answers and to exam the different type of questions. Eventually, cheaters will meet someone or something that will end their academic career. I have a graduate student (4.0 throughout high school and college) who was just accused of plagiarizer and academic dishonesty. If proven, that is the end of her career in the field.</p>
<p>High school is hella easy in general, why do kids bother cheating?</p>
<p>People cheat to get a higher GPA/Rank, perhaps from pressure from parents or just tons of motivation</p>
<p>Zebra Z-Grip pens have a transparent barrel with a lot of volume inside. you can roll up a piece of paper and slide it in there nicely, and when writing your hand covers that part so it’s not seen.</p>