Prof bluffs about catching people cheat, and 200 people suddenly admit to cheating.
When you were in school, or right now if that’s the case, did you ever cheat? Do you still cheat? Know any cheaters?
Sadly, I’ve seen quite a lot of people cheat. Not just because it’s easier, but because a prof gave stupid hard tests (short answers, rather than multiple choice, for instance). Hell, I cheated on a fucking mainframe exam, after finding out the course was deemed “obsolete” and “out of date”, and would no longer be offered. Fuck legacy hardware.
free response tests are crazy hard? i’d much rather take my chances putting my knowledge of the material on paper rather than playing the semantics game that multiple choice tests can be. no i didn’t cheat because i am the curve breaker already. :grrr: :grrr: :grrr:
What was the name of that movie where a teacher I think gave his students the strategy to cheat on an exam or SAT? Some of the student cheating methods involved writing answers down on a stick of gum and on the bottom of their shoes.
Never cheated in college, tried a time or two in high school, never really felt right to try and cheat ethically. If I didn’t know it, I didn’t know it.
cheated a few times in high school, i think one time somehow almost the whole class cheated and almost everyone got full marks for maths lolol… shits pretty easy though
Don’t remember, but I may have cheated a few times when I was younger. I never cheated in college and I don’t plan to start. I rather know my material than pretend that I do.
i didn’t personally cheat, but i did help a friend cheat… which i actually feel like shit about now, because the friend ended up falling a bit behind me in our degree and now nearly 2 years later they are still working on the last couple classes while i have been graduated for over a year.
so… in a way i feel like i kept them in the game so to speak for longer than they should have been and the person hurt most by that was the person i thought i was helping. (when i say hurt i mean like wasted a bunch of extra money)
Everytime I give out a test I give the same lecture that I once recieved as an undergraduate.
“Economics is about choices. Today you’re taking two tests. One on economics, the other on integrity. If you have to choose one to fail, I hope you choose the right decision. Good luck.”
I’m going to send an e-mail to that professor and tell him I absolutly loved what he did here… very nice.
Cheating on Chinese tests was a time honored tradition back in my old highschool (especially since we had a shitty Chinese language program that everyone was required to take).
I kind of regret never cheating and way more than half the class usually cheats, regardless where you go to, it’s just human nature of risk versus reward and nowadays ethics and morals seem more stressed as educational material than something people should actually learn from. When we had semester long projects and people actually waited until the end to start some girls would literally offer up anything for code. Even though I regret not cheating and everyone else doing so, after graduating when it came time for job interviews a lot of people actually didn’t know shit and had trouble finding a good job so I guess things worked out in the end but there are still a lot of people who get carried through life by cheating. My friends tell me that I basically sacrifice my life by not cheating and that not cheating and following the rules is a psychological barrier constructed by society to hinder the less intelligent but it’s my choice to stick to my own rules of ethics and morals and it makes me feel good so whatever. Life is what you make it.
Absolutely, every chance I got. I don’t consider it immoral or cheating myself out of anything because all college is is an annoying obstacle course to get a piece of paper (degree). 95% of the shit I need to know will come from on the job training or self education, so cheating on an art history exam that is for some stupid reason required for my computer science degree (actually I know why it’s required, colleges want to make more money) doesn’t bother me a bit.
One of my teachers uploaded all his tests answers at the beginning of the semester to his website but didn’t provide a link until the test was completed in class. Only thing is, after the first test and I saw the file name (something like test01.pdf) it was easy to figure out the file names of the other answered tests and download them. This was one of my programming professors.
grades don’t matter when you apply for a job. nobody cares. if you’re taking a test where its possible to cheat (multiple choice), it probably means your major is a joke anyway so who cares what score you get on the test, you’ll probably end up flipping burgers anyway.
if you’re taking a difficult and challenging major, well good luck cheating on the test. most of them will be open book anyway. at that point its about how to apply your knowledge. a lot of my cs finals involved writing proofs or writing code on the spot. how can you cheat on something such as that? besides, if you haven’t even learned the material at this point, you’ll be screwed once you’re actually out in the real working world.
I have a feeling this isn’t going to go well…but here goes.
I actually had a very strange occurance happen the other day speaking of students cheating… sort of.
To put this into perspective, I was the dullest college student ever. I didn’t do anything except study / debate / spend time with my wife. I can honestly say I had one of the most boring (but personally satisfying) collegiate careers probably on SRK. Anyway, you obviously hear stories about people coming onto professors and stuff and I personally thought it was total nonsense urban legend type stuff given my background and how I ignored everything else in college and never got into all the other stuff.
You have to understand, I’m a 5’9" nerdy looking overweight white guy, nothing to look at and certainly nothing to latch onto compared to most of the men who attend this university who are their age and are quite frankly infinitely more attractive etc. I’ve been teaching economics for 2 years now and I have never had anything like what happened to me 3 times this week happen to me ever before.
I have had female students, who are by the way, not doing well in the course, come to office hours and get flirty with me. One of them went way over the line, I’ll just leave it at that. Now, I’m happily married, I let them all down easily and I think I avoided any trouble. But I’m going to ask you all, does trying to make sexual advances at a professor count as cheating? I mean they’re obviously not doing it to get answers to questions but they’re doing it to try to curry favor in the hopes that I might be more lenient or something on grading (or at least that’s my assumption)…
Oh and of course its fair to say that all three women who came in would have been WAAAAY out of my league at any other point in my life…
Cheating in high school is whatever to me. No one cares, and everyone does it no big deal.
Cheating in college is rather stupid. I’m with Fishje on this one. You pick your major for a reason. The hell does cheating do you any good? If you do somehow able to graduate you’re still going to need to know the material. Doesn’t do you any good by cheating.
write formulas in pencil on your calculator in between buttons
use those fancy ti calculators to put in answers
awesome peripheral vision aquired while i was in drumline
im in college
ive cheated
mostly for classes that have nothing to do with my major like electives and shit.