The Coolest Way To Cheat On A Test

[Joigga]

haha i found this over at tutorialninjas.net i never ever would have thought of this im doing this for m mid terms

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[jq715861]

The problem with this is for me at least, is that we couldn't have drinks in class on our desks until I hit college. By the time you get there 90% of the exams are going to have too much material on them that you can't fit it on a coke label.

But it's a good idea nonetheless.

[Topher]

No drinks were ever allowed in any of my classes or major exams. Pretty clever idea. What a shame that brain power is being used towards sloth...

[Tagsrover]

Yeah, definently no drinks or anything on your desk in college. i even had a professor that made us turn baseball caps backwards in case you wrote underneath the bill

[toefer]

Yeah, definently no drinks or anything on your desk in college. i even had a professor that made us turn baseball caps backwards in case you wrote underneath the bill

I've had the hats thing too, which was kind of annoying, because I was one of the only people in class with a hat, so I kind of felt singled out.

I agree with jq that there's just too much material, at least in college courses, to try to cram into 3 lines on a Coke bottle. If I take the time to write out a sentence on a fake label, I'll probably remember what I wrote, so it becomes pointless anyway. The only real use I can see is for some finance classes to write down a bunch of formulas, because those can get really annoying to remember, if your teachers don't let you use a financial calculator. Present values of ordinary perpetuities!

I've only had a couple professors tell us to take drinks off a desk. In fact, in most classes, I'll bring a cup with ice, and a can of soda, and crack it open and pour it in when I show up for the test, and nobody seems to care.

[Manda]

I saw on the news that kids were texting the answers to one another. This would probably be the most effective way to cheat, especially if you had a section similar to a word processor. I don't own a cellphone, but I know they're pretty advanced today.

[DShiz1029]

Or how bout you actually study and succeed in life...? Just a suggestion...

[jq715861]

Or how bout you actually study and succeed in life...? Just a suggestion...

Pfft. That's stupid. :p

I always thought text messaging was a terrible idea. It takes me two hands to type out a message so it's not really all that inconspicuous. I just always assumed it would be easy to spot.

[Huskie]

Thanks for the heads up.
As a parent, I need to know the latest things kids are doing these days :D

[Eastwood]

Also, those pens with the retractable banners. You just cover them with the white out tape and write the answers on them.

I don't cheat. Cheating means getting kicked out of college...

[Incoment Troll]

yeah the pen thinks works the best until someone tells on you

[HMXJohnlok]

I'm making a list and checking it twice... beware.

[Eastwood]

yeah the pen thinks works the best until someone tells on you

then theys bes a snitch and they get rolled up on in da hood... hahaha

[jonfitzsimon]

If someone is crafty enough to do this coke bottle scheme, i say let them.

[chapel]

whatever happened to writing it all down in your Texas Instruments Calculator and recalling it (which only works for Science and Math class)

One thing that always got me was... why shouldn't every test be open book?
I'm a network engineer... if I have a problem I either google it or RTFM. It's always available if necessary. You don't get fired for looking up how to fix stuff... you get fired for not knowing how to resolve stuff.
I mean, I KNOW alot of stuff, but there's just to much to memorize.

[Incoment Troll]

I got away with everything I did until my junior year when about 20 kids got busted and it just blew everything up. For real though parents and teachers have no idea how sofisticated cheating is now a days I know Im putting this all out there cause they cant stop us anyway! F-ing Troll B!tch

[Eastwood]

whatever happened to writing it all down in your Texas Instruments Calculator and recalling it (which only works for Science and Math class)

One thing that always got me was... why shouldn't every test be open book?
I'm a network engineer... if I have a problem I either google it or RTFM. It's always available if necessary. You don't get fired for looking up how to fix stuff... you get fired for not knowing how to resolve stuff.
I mean, I KNOW alot of stuff, but there's just to much to memorize.

QFT. The days of memorization are over. Knowledge can know be obtained anytime anywhere, so tests should also test your ability to retrieve that knowledge.

[toefer]

QFT. The days of memorization are over. Knowledge can know be obtained anytime anywhere, so tests should also test your ability to retrieve that knowledge.

I somewhat agree, but if everything were open book, you're essentially just testing reading comprehension, and in real life there are going to be times when you won't have a book available. Imagine if in the middle of a trial, the lawyer says "hold on, let me look something up" and pulls out his laptop and looks up some law on Google. Quite unprofessional. Or imagine a surgeon in the OR, with a patient on the table, and a little stand next to him with his laptop open, guiding him through surgical procedures. I bring this up, because lawyers and doctors, among other professions, cannot possibly know everything about their field, but they still can't expect that they'll always be able to look it up.

I'm in grad school now, and a lot of my teachers will flat out tell us "ok, some of this stuff, nobody really has memorized, and have to look it up, but we're still making the tests closed-book".

If a teacher is trying to test whether you understand concepts, the textbooks would be pointless anyway.

Also, as another idea for cheating. Take a rubber band, stretch it out, and write on it with a pen. Then stop stretching it, and see how cool and inconspicuous it looks. Plus there are always those cool kids that naturally wear rubber bands as bracelets, so you won't even look out of place by wearing one.

[DesiredFX]

QFT. The days of memorization are over. Knowledge can know be obtained anytime anywhere, so tests should also test your ability to retrieve that knowledge.

I agree, to a degree.

There are some things in each discipline that are so basic to the understanding of it that they should be drilled into you until the knowledge becomes reaction rather than recall.

When I was a kid, they taught us how to multiply rather than having us memorize multiplication tables. At the time, it was considered "new math," where they felt that teaching you how to think was more valuable than having you memorize stuff.

However, our teachers were also somewhat old school (no pun intended) and had us memorize the tables as well.

When I see a kid today grab a calculator do do something I can do in a tenth of the time in my head, I'm glad it was handled that way.

[Incoment Troll]

The school system is so messed up and what they test us on we forget by the time we graduate the school system f-in sucks

[DesiredFX]

I saw on the news that kids were texting the answers to one another. This would probably be the most effective way to cheat, especially if you had a section similar to a word processor. I don't own a cellphone, but I know they're pretty advanced today.

As we all know, as you get older, your hearing tends to go. But one thing that was discovered was that--as early as in your middle 20s--you begin to lose hearing from the very highest end of your range. This happens because the eardrum stiffens slightly and won't vibrate that quickly any longer.

Someone who discovered this created high-frequency ring-tones for kids to use in school. It is now trivial for people in that age range to send texts using "audibly inaudible" ring tones.

So, yes, we're raising a generation of dogs.

[Incoment Troll]

You Cant Kill A Troll B!tch!!!

[Huskie]

You Cant Kill A Troll B!tch!!!

That's not true. I read it in Harry Potter!

[Eastwood]

That's not true. I read it in Harry Potter!

And in Fellowship of the Ring

See his sig? All we need are Glimli, Legolas, and Aragorn and we are set!

[Atsumi]

The only problem is the difference in gloss and quality between bottle labels and printer paper/ink. I think it would look awful suspicious. Especially if the bottle started condensating and smeared the ink on the paper.

In my Spanish our cheating consisted of blantently looking at the paper next to us or asking the person on the other side of the room. That teacher was so oblivious.

[Quastor]

The only problem is the difference in gloss and quality between bottle labels and printer paper/ink. I think it would look awful suspicious. Especially if the bottle started condensating and smeared the ink on the paper.

In my Spanish our cheating consisted of blantently looking at the paper next to us or asking the person on the other side of the room. That teacher was so oblivious.

This is the best way because at least it requires some balls.

[Vengeance]

In my old spanish class my brother wrote the answers on a piece of paper during 5 mins. before class started and then taped it on the desk in front of him so he could just look at the back of the desk and find the answers he was never caught but

[Vengeance]

also in my history class about 4 years ago people use to say the answers to each other (loudly) because our teacher had really bad hearing

[Manda]

The school system is so messed up and what they test us on we forget by the time we graduate the school system f-in sucks

True, I don't remember half the things I learned in school. I don't remember 1/4 of the things I learned in school... but the idea behind testing and memorization is to train your mind, not fill it with useless facts. Why do you think we have to learn so much math that most people will never use in their life? It's not about knowing what you're taught, but being able to comprehend what's put forth. The only case where you would need to remember anything is if it's vital to your career.

[DShiz1029]

Try and cheat in college, your ass will be out like a fat kid in dodge ball. Seriously, when you get into that high of education its not worth the risk.

I cheated maybe once or twice in my early years of high school. One even on a research paper and I never got caught!

But again, the professors in college are trained in whats the "hottest" form of cheating these days. Its just not worth it.

[toefer]

My college (UNC) and others I've seen in the past (where friends go) don't really try to catch you cheating. There's an honor code, and you're expected to follow it, but most teachers will leave the room during tests, or have someone on staff serve as the proctor, and that person will just sit in a chair reading a book.

Plus I've only had maybe 1-2 teachers out of the 60+ classes I've taken that won't allow you to leave class to go to the bathroom during a final. A few have said you can only leave if its an emergency, but that's when you just fake an emergency. Stashing a textbook in some random area of the building is the easiest way, theoretically, to cheat. And who will catch you?

Most cheating will have to be reported by fellow students, but if the person you see cheating is your friend, you'll obviously have second thoughts about reporting it.

It sounds stupid, but if you're cheating, you really have to wonder who you're cheating. Your grades might look good, though that only gets you so far. If you sound like an idiot during an interview, the grades don't really matter.

In the end, I've never cheated, only because I know in the super rare event that I was caught, I'll have wasted the last several years.