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Ok, I was doing an exam today and about 45 minutes in I hear muffled talking coming from the seat in front.

I look up, the the guy HAS HIS MOBILE PHONE OUT.

Seriously, how dumb can you be?

After being told 5 times to put mobiles in a bag under the desk, he has it, in his hand, making noises. Enough noise to get my attention and the attention of a guy 2 seats in front and one row over.

Oh, and the attention of the invigilators...

Muppet

Long hair and an earpiece with a really sensitive mike. Practice until you reach lowest level your researcher can hear you.

What exam subject?

Long hair and an earpiece with a really sensitive mike. Practice until you reach lowest level your researcher can hear you.

that might work. But a mobile, in your hand, with a nice shiny case and bright orange screen!?!

that really is quite idiotic...

We're not even allowed phones in, we have to hand them in if we have them on us in the hall.

that really is quite idiotic...

We're not even allowed phones in, we have to hand them in if we have them on us in the hall.

we get told to put them under the desks in a platic wallet provided, and they are supposed to be turned off

Hey, EH, what school do you go to?


I took an AP exam the other day, too. Give a lollipop to me. :)

that might work. But a mobile, in your hand, with a nice shiny case and bright orange screen!?!
*shrugs* Stupidity appears to be endemic to the human condition.

Ok, I was doing an exam today and about 45 minutes in I hear muffled talking coming from the seat in front.

I look up, the the guy HAS HIS MOBILE PHONE OUT.

Seriously, how dumb can you be?

After being told 5 times to put mobiles in a bag under the desk, he has it, in his hand, making noises. Enough noise to get my attention and the attention of a guy 2 seats in front and one row over.

Oh, and the attention of the invigilators...

Muppet
retard. did he get kicked out?

Hey, EH, what school do you go to?


I took an AP exam the other day, too. Give a lollipop to me. :)

University College London

Hey, EH, what school do you go to?


I took an AP exam the other day, too. Give a lollipop to me. :)

http://web.central-cass.k12.nd.us/kweb/Halloween/lollipop.jpg

retard. did he get kicked out?

he had to sign a thingy saying he had done it. Don't know whether he'll be failed or not.

Hey, EH, what school do you go to?


I took an AP exam the other day, too. Give a lollipop to me. :)

Ooh! I've taken 5 AP exams. Do I get five lollipops? :D

Ooh! I've taken 5 AP exams. Do I get five lollipops? :D

no, but you can have one

http://web.central-cass.k12.nd.us/kweb/Halloween/lollipop.jpg

A few years ago, this girl a few years below me left the test to "go the bathroom." She spent 20 minutes in the bathroom. She asked to be excused again a few minutes later, but before the teacher let her go, she checked out the bathroom. Surprise surprise, a binder full of notes is sitting in a sink. Idiot.

The most ingenious cheating I saw was a guy who wrote the answers on the sole of his neighbor's shoe. After the test started, his neighbor put up the foot with the writing on it and rested it on her opposite knee. The trick is convincing someone to let you write on their shoes.

A few years ago, this girl a few years below me left the test to "go the bathroom." She spent 20 minutes in the bathroom. She asked to be excused again a few minutes later, but before the teacher let her go, she checked out the bathroom. Surprise surprise, a binder full of notes is sitting in a sink. Idiot.

The most ingenious cheating I saw was a guy who wrote the answers on the sole of his neighbor's shoe. After the test started, his neighbor put up the foot with the writing on it and rested it on her opposite knee. The trick is convincing someone to let you write on their shoes.

That's not as ingenious as what I once did. See, there was this REALLY hard test.. and I was worried. So I decided I was going to cheat.

...

The entire two weeks before the test I studied every night for 3 hours, and bam - I got a 103% on the test (There was an extra credit essay question that was worth a bunch.. my answer was four pages long lol...)

Now that's ingenious.

Last year i went into an exam (A Levels), handed my phone in at the front like most people do, and halfway thru the exam it went off. Someone took it straight out of the room, a coupel of people glanced up but that was all - it wasn't massively distracting and there wasn't a chance in hell i could have gotten access to it.
However, i was still forced to go see the principle, endure a long lecture, be threatened with my removal from all exams on that board if i brought my phone into an exam again (on or off, even if i handed it in at the front), had to go and apologise to the exam coordinators and had to wait behind after the end of teh school day to get my phone back.
I dread to think what they'd have done to your guy :P

Last year i went into an exam (A Levels), handed my phone in at the front like most people do, and halfway thru the exam it went off. Someone took it straight out of the room, a coupel of people glanced up but that was all - it wasn't massively distracting and there wasn't a chance in hell i could have gotten access to it.
However, i was still forced to go see the principle, endure a long lecture, be threatened with my removal from all exams on that board if i brought my phone into an exam again (on or off, even if i handed it in at the front), had to go and apologise to the exam coordinators and had to wait behind after the end of teh school day to get my phone back.
I dread to think what they'd have done to your guy :P

UCL seem like they'd rather not make a fuss, it might spoil their image

The most ingenious cheating I saw was a guy who wrote the answers on the sole of his neighbor's shoe. After the test started, his neighbor put up the foot with the writing on it and rested it on her opposite knee. The trick is convincing someone to let you write on their shoes.
Nah, the best one I've seen involved bottled water. Our school sold bottled water as a fundraiser for various things. The labels were put on at our school. He got ahold of one of the labels and proceeded to make a crib sheet. He then glued it onto a water bottle. He was only caught because he kept tilting the bottle without drinking from it.

I only ever had to do this once, for an Advanced Latin test in high school, but I usually sit cross-legged in class (or at least I did in high school, when the desks were more comfortable to do so), so I wore dark blueish/grey pants and wrote the declensions and certain vocab words I knew I'd need up the seam of my pants with black ink. The teacher obviously wouldn't notice it on the insides of my lower legs, and that way I could just lower my eyes a bit and not make it appear I was looking away from the test.

My friend was a big fan of "writing" things on her arm in pencil beforehand....the teacher would suspect cheating and come by to check, but see nothing. About a minute later, whatever she wrote showed up more red than the rest of her skin, and she just copied as fast as she could. That one always seemed too painful for me, though....

Do what they used to do at my college. Confiscate the phone, remove them from the exam hall, stop them from sitting any more exams, then charge them 25eur to get their phone back. If the phone rings in the vicinity of the exam hall, then the phone is confisacted and the person is charged the 25eur, but can remain in the exam hall and complete the exam session and subsequent years. It only happened once that someone's phone rang in the hall, no one has the dosh to get their phones back if they're caught, so they make sure it doesn't happen.

It's only fair on everyone else!!!

I've never cheated in an exam but I have thought of how I can. I use a silver pocketwatch to time myself in exams (have done for two years for luck) and it has a flip lid. I could easily hide notes in there.

One friend I know does cheat on his English Literature exams when you are allowed to take your texts in. He simply copies all his notes (and practice essays) into his books and they have never been checked once. Although I still beat him - ha.

For our Leaving Cert in school, we were 'encouraged by our Art teacher to cheat. We were given a passage of prose and told to come up with a composition to paint a picture based on what we imagined when we read the piece. We got the piece about two weeks in advance so we could think about it, so our teacher told us to take a picture from a magazine and cellotape it inside a tin mathematical set case. None of us were caught...unfortunately, the pic I chose was inside my Dad's huge Encyclopedia of the World, worth over 100eur, and I would have been strung up by my shoe laces if I'd cut the pic out... no fair.... :(

On the other hand, for the craft portion, I had the invigilator, who was a professional artist, make about half of my piece because he likes my vision. Yay for me!!!

For our Leaving Cert in school, we were 'encouraged by our Art teacher to cheat. We were given a passage of prose and told to come up with a composition to paint a picture based on what we imagined when we read the piece. We got the piece about two weeks in advance so we could think about it, so our teacher told us to take a picture from a magazine and cellotape it inside a tin mathematical set case. None of us were caught...unfortunately, the pic I chose was inside my Dad's huge Encyclopedia of the World, worth over 100eur, and I would have been strung up by my shoe laces if I'd cut the pic out... no fair.... :(

On the other hand, for the craft portion, I had the invigilator, who was a professional artist, make about half of my piece because he likes my vision. Yay for me!!!

For our Leaving Cert in school, we were 'encouraged by our Art teacher to cheat. We were given a passage of prose and told to come up with a composition to paint a picture based on what we imagined when we read the piece. We got the piece about two weeks in advance so we could think about it, so our teacher told us to take a picture from a magazine and cellotape it inside a tin mathematical set case. None of us were caught...unfortunately, the pic I chose was inside my Dad's huge Encyclopedia of the World, worth over 100eur, and I would have been strung up by my shoe laces if I'd cut the pic out... no fair.... :(

On the other hand, for the craft portion, I had the invigilator, who was a professional artist, make about half of my piece because he likes my vision. Yay for me!!!

For our Leaving Cert in school, we were 'encouraged by our Art teacher to cheat. We were given a passage of prose and told to come up with a composition to paint a picture based on what we imagined when we read the piece. We got the piece about two weeks in advance so we could think about it, so our teacher told us to take a picture from a magazine and cellotape it inside a tin mathematical set case. None of us were caught...unfortunately, the pic I chose was inside my Dad's huge Encyclopedia of the World, worth over 100eur, and I would have been strung up by my shoe laces if I'd cut the pic out... no fair.... :(

On the other hand, for the craft portion, I had the invigilator, who was a professional artist, make about half of my piece because he likes my vision. Yay for me!!!

I write all my notes in my brain.

God it hurts.

For our Leaving Cert in school, we were 'encouraged by our Art teacher to cheat. We were given a passage of prose and told to come up with a composition to paint a picture based on what we imagined when we read the piece. We got the piece about two weeks in advance so we could think about it, so our teacher told us to take a picture from a magazine and cellotape it inside a tin mathematical set case. None of us were caught...unfortunately, the pic I chose was inside my Dad's huge Encyclopedia of the World, worth over 100eur, and I would have been strung up by my shoe laces if I'd cut the pic out... no fair.... :(

On the other hand, for the craft portion, I had the invigilator, who was a professional artist, make about half of my piece because he likes my vision. Yay for me!!!

What's an invigilator? Sounds scary.

I've never cheated in an exam but I have thought of how I can. I use a silver pocketwatch to time myself in exams (have done for two years for luck) and it has a flip lid. I could easily hide notes in there.


I tried to do something like that for GCSE maths. Though I spent so long copying the notes down to a size that would fit on the watch I remembered them anyway :(

What's an invigilator? Sounds scary.
Someone that oversees the exam to make sure no one cheats or distract other exam takers.

We had those cool programmable graphing calculators for my Trig class. We kept a handful of programs in there that the instructor had given to us. It was easy enough to page down a few, select a program slot, and enter formulas you wanted to remember for the test. The instructor didn't wipe the memories from the calculators before exams, because that would necessitate rewriting the programs each time. And with the notes a few pages down, and untitled, there was only one way to find out they were there... go to an edit screen which would show how many bytes were in each program... a non-zero in a random slot would indicate the presence of notes. But that was more trouble than it was worth, so the instructor never bothered.

Invigilator = proctor.