Yes, kinda.
I was in an entry-level “database” class that was administered online. I took it as padding to get credits to fulfill a requirement after switching majors. I figured it would be easy because I had a few years of on the job experience with databases.
Although it was still the early days of online learning, my school did have a comprehensive online learning platform. The teacher was self-taught, and hosted the course on their personal website. While we did have a book and a syllabus, the actual course focused on how the teacher knew how to use Microsoft Access.
They graded based on assignments that they handed out all at once at the beginning of the semester, plus tests. I did the entire semester’s homework in about 2 hours the first week, but found I kept missing test questions. After each test, it showed you the expected answers, and they often made little sense (not wrong, just weird – using anachronistic names for things, or the question was very specific about where menu options were that weren’t there anymore). You could retake the test as many times as you wanted (I don’t know if that was a bug or not), but I didn’t have that kind of time. So I just viewed source, where he’d clearly labeled each correct answer, and more or less skipped through the dumb quizzes.nah. i may be a punk but i aced my tests using my own head lol
Kinda once in college. It was a lab practical. The girl I thought was smart was across stations from me. I tried looking but noticed she had an obvious wrong answer, so I decided to not use her answers.
No. Failure is another way to learn.
All the time! I do this thing where, before the test, I look over the subject matter and store the information in my head, letting me breeze through the questions.
In seriousness, no. But I’ve definitely been cheated off of.
Once, in school, I saw my teacher had carelessly discarded a printout of the questions for next week’s tests in the classroom’s paper basket.
I grabbed it to take home and study perfectly for those questions, feeling like a secret agent.
Never got around to even look at it before the test, though, and showed up unprepared as ever.
No, and I think I would’ve been too scared even if I had the capacity to keep up such a ruse. I’ve always hated lying, it just feels bad.
In school: yes, many times. Never was caught either.
We had TI-89 calculators in school. You could load programs on it to show, step by step, how to do quadratic equations. Another teacher in a history class was more manipulable and the students convinced them to allow us to bring in calculators to calculate the difference between dates, and they agreed. So we loaded our calculator up with notes from the computer.
You might be the reason for my story. I helped a bunch of other people cheat but I didn’t, and it was not directly intentional.
We had TI-89s too but we were required to erase all memory and show the output message to the teacher to be allowed to use it.
I was really into some game on my calculator and didn’t want to lose it from wiping my memory. So, I wrote a program that would mimic all the steps as if you erased it and return the same output at the end. Everybody was asking me to share it and they used it on the next test. I did too but I didn’t have anything saved to use to cheat.
I had a professor in college who would do 10 question pop quizzes from time to time. He would always have the answer key stapled to the front of the envelope as he passed them out. I have good spatial recognition and would always crack a joke to him when he got to me just so he’d pause for a second and I could memorize the pattern real quick. I’d fill out the answers in under 30 seconds and just pretend I took it.
🤔 sounds like you had a pretty smart professor if he walked around displaying the answers to his quiz…
I used to cheat the credit system by taking mind-blowingly easy exams from management courses (they’re literally all the same) or from business studies (half of them are like maths for dummies). Weird minor courses were extra fun, and sometimes actually interesting to do read a book for.
Zero studying, just sign up for the course if it doesn’t have an attendance requirement, take the test, free credit! Sometimes you could even shape those wildly unrelated courses into a Minor, which I how I have 4 minors on my diploma (1 normal one, 3 Frankenminors I assembled myself out of whatever I had already).
I used to do that with a few friends, and we almost got in trouble once for telling the truth (“no, showing up to class isn’t mandatory and we’re pretty sure we can pass the exam with zero effort”). There were zero rules against this, and the only harm was to the professor’s egos, but I did get several stern talkings to.
My university would keep past exam papers in the library. This was apparently a little known fact, but somehow we discovered it, went and got them and use them as the basis for revision.
Turns out our professors were lazy and used the same exam every year. Does that count as cheating?
If the school provided the material, you didn’t bring anything to the test that you weren’t allowed to, and nobody told you not to utilize the files in the library, then you didn’t cheat
Nope. I chose to go to school and paid to get educated, not to get grades and piece of paper. No cheating, no cramming … I would only have been paying to cheat myself.
Only once. By remembering more-or-less all answers to a test that were given by a professor.
Isn’t that just… Learning?
