<p>So last Saturday on the ACT, the girl next to me had written math formulas on the inside of her water bottle's label, then taped it back onto the water bottle and was using it on the math test. The proctor noticed though, and she was excused at the end of the math test. </p>
<p>Does anyone else have cheating stories?</p>
<p>Last year in AP World, 15 students were caught in a cheating ring regarding the summer assignment - they all received 0’s (the assignment was 40% of the grade) - and they also all failed first quarter because of it.</p>
<p>Last year in regular world history some girls had gotten ahold of the final because a kid who had taken the final the first day of finals week had taken a picture of it with his phone. The teacher didn’t notice. The girls then painted the answers on their nails by using nail polish because the test was multiple choice. Each nail was divided into 3 columns with different colors representing the different letter choices. Pretty ingenious in my opinion. I don’t think they were ever caught.</p>
<p>There was also a huge cheating scandal on the US history final, I think the average was like a 100%.</p>
<p>^^ Wow. That actually is kind of ingenious.</p>
<p>During my physics final, at least 3 kids had their phones out to look up answers and the teacher didn’t even notice.
But then again, a lot of teachers at my school are horrible. Last year, a girl who had my APUSH teacher said f*** you to the teacher and walked out, and the teacher didn’t even really do anything.</p>
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<p>lol the same thing happened in my class! except this happened like every test</p>
<p>there was also a take home test on rotational dynamics: we had a facebook group for our physics class, so we all cheated. but what could my teacher expect?? we were all friends, and we all had internet access. it’s not like anybody has morals anymore LOL</p>
<p>anyways, my teacher got soooo angry… except she didn’t yell, but just got really quiet and holy frick it was the scariest thing ever</p>
<p>never cheated, witnessed cheating, or wanted to cheat… but that nail polish thing is actually great</p>
<p>@clementines lol for reals we do not have morals any longer
And we make fb pages for all our classes too and kids post their homework so the lazy butts can copy them. </p>
<p>@Loveartforever you’ve never witnessed cheating? Not even a sly side-peek of a kid trying to steal your MC answers? :O</p>
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<p>LOL sometimes i’m that kid</p>
<p>and yeah, but the worst thing is they didn’t even cheat right. like half the class mindlessly put their answers on the same exact places on the paper. it was literally like someone photocopied the test answers for half the class. i mean, at least i cheated the right way</p>
<p>I try not to be pessimistic and assume that our generation is full of immoral cheaters… I hold onto the hope that there are still a handful of students who take pride in their work and don’t let a two/three digit grade rob them of their principles.</p>
<p>A boy I knew who happened to be one of the nicest people I’ve ever met but also the worst math student I have ever seen had been failing Geometry his Freshman year - some kid got a hold of the answer key to every single test and it was supposedly passed around during the test itself. The kid wouldn’t even touch it. To him, a low 60 in the class was more rewarding than a low 90 which resulted from deception. I gave him his current nickname, Good-Guy-Dannyboy. LOL. </p>
<p>IDK, I’m just inclined to believe that if you feel like you need to cheat to get by in high school… then college will be a rude awakening. Or maybe cheaters do prosper, who knows. I certainly don’t know.</p>
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<p>maybe you just didn’t study that night, because you had a lot going on, like your pet just died or you have a lot of EC’s. try not judging other people. if you cheat because you can get away with it, that doesn’t mean you couldn’t succeed without cheating.</p>
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<p>If you were good at cheating in high school, you’ll be good at cheating in college. I’m assuming the consequences are worse if you get caught, especially if it’s plagiarism, but college tests (based on my experience at a local university…maybe some are different) are structured in basically the same way as high school tests. </p>
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<p>Cheating on a test is wrong in most cases regardless of the circumstances…it might be understandable sometimes, but that doesn’t make it justifiable. (I say “most cases” because I’m sure there’s some obscure exception where it would be justifiable.) </p>
<p>But I agree that we shouldn’t make blanket statements about the overall character/abilities of people who have cheated.</p>
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<p>i never said it was or was not wrong. i wanted to make the point that people aren’t morally corrupt if they sometimes cheat on something as insignificant (in the grand scheme of things) as high school work, and they might have some good reasons for cheating, as well</p>
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That doesn’t even sound like it could help in anyway. The ACT doesn’t require much prior knowledge other than a^2+b^2=c^2</p>
<p>Anyway a person got caught taking pictures of a test (he was taking it early because he was going to be gone). This was after he had sent them to more than 50 students in the class. The teachers canceled the test (when they found out) and had to make-up the test; however that version was MUCH harder and everyone failed (as punishment since they could not catch/discipline all the cheaters).</p>
<p>I’ve written formulas or vocabulary words on a small piece of paper I can fit in my pocket. Only when I need to, though. It’s not a big deal.</p>
<p>One of last year’s APUSH classes had like 15 kids take the previous year’s study guide, remove the cover page and staple the current year’s cover page. It was stupid because the teacher writes comments on the study guide. That teacher just changed up her study guides. </p>
<p>Some other people plagerized on a tourism project for Japanese and their excuse was that they thought the teacher didn’t care because it wasn’t English, we had a plagiarism quiz later that week.</p>
<p>Personally, I think cheating is cheating. No circumstances, sob story, or misfortunate mishap makes cheating ok. It’s a matter of integrity, which seems to be pretty much lost in this generation. Cheating is not something you keep from doing only when the circumstances are going your way. </p>
<p>Not to sound like a wisecrack, and I don’t want to make this thread an argument. Just my personal thoughts and beliefs on the subject. </p>
<p>By the way preamble176, thanks for sharing the story about the guy not cheating in math class. Made my night (:</p>
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<p>One time in 9th grade I wrote down French vocabulary words on my arm because I was worried I’d forget how to spell them. However, once the test was in front of me, I felt really bad about even thinking about cheating, so I kept my sleeves rolled down tight. </p>
<p>More recently, last winter I was taking a test in a night class while I was severely sick. I actually had to leave to go puke in the bathroom. Normally leaving isn’t allowed because people can cheat, but it was an emergency and my prof could tell. As I was puking, I was worried because I didn’t know the answer to 5 questions. I realized that I had my phone on me and could have looked up the answers to a couple of them, but in all sincerity, that’s not the kind of person I am. </p>
<p>Yeah, I got 3 of those 5 wrong. But that was my very best, and I was proud.</p>
<p>you know what’s REALLY immoral? when people act morally superior and judge everybody</p>