Cheating stories

>chink differential equations professor assigns every problem at end of chapter as homework
>everyone just drops their homework on a pile before/after class
>casually walk up and steal someones homework, copy all their work and throw theirs in the trash
>do this the whole semester
>get an A

Not sure if this is cheating exactly because there is no chance it wasn't intended.

>have online quizzes every week
>accounts for something like 10-20% of total mark for the semester
>there are also "revision" questions up online with answers
>every single question in the quiz comes from the revision questions
The worst part is that I only noticed about halfway through the semester. I had a bunch of quizzes where I got 80-90% before I noticed.

>in my differential equations class i assign every problem at end of chapter as homework
>everyone just drops their homework on a pile before/after class
>every time half way through the class this same fat retard stumbles up to the front desk and steals another students work and copies it, and throws his own work in the trash
>does this the whole semester
>i dont even know if he is actually enrolled in this school so i just give him an A for effort

>calculus exam
>not sure about my results in a limit
>use my calculator to evaluate the function at 0.000000001

congratulations. you have just received the coveted brainlet of the thread award!

tbqh I do this myself, every time. Even if I know I am correct.

Sometimes checking if your answer makes sense is faster then re-reading all your procedure to see if you made an algebra mistake.

It is like proving a series is convergent before trying to find the value. You first prove you made a mistake and if you did you start looking for it.

>calculus exam
>calculator

what brainlet school do you go to?

He's obviously doing better than you since he has a better grade

>every single question in the quiz comes from the revision questions
tons of profs do this

the point of a test in university isn't to see how clever you are, it's to see if you actually learned the material you were assigned to learn

Here's something we would regularly do if a subject was hard.

>4 or more students drop in the professors office day before an exam
>2 guys intensively ask him questions to keep him distracted
>the others screw around the office, to find where he keeps the exams for tomorrow
>photograph the test
>everyone passes

what is the problem?

I think you missed the point where he says that's it's an online quiz, meaning he could easily look for the question among the revision questions and put that answer in the quiz without having learned anything.

That's right. By the last online quiz I was not even reviewing the lecture material, I would just pull up the quiz and the revision questions then ctrl+F down to find the right answer to the repeated question.

>finish hw
>go to back of book to check answers

>tfw answers to end-of-chapter exercises aren't available in student edition of book

I went to a community college for a minute, every single test even actual exams in some of my classes were like this. I got straight A's without learning any of the material.

That sucks. I only had it with a couple lecturers but it always pissed me off. I hate that feeling of learning how to pass tests and not learning the material. My uni had the students do surveys of each unit and I would always review those units scathingly.

Mimi loves matter

that had to be a big office

> answers are only to odd-number problems
>REEEEEE

>be polisci major at average state school, smartest in my group of friends who were mostly lazy business majors
>throughout 2nd, 3rd, 4th year, i write papers for them for about $150 - $300 each time
>one friend comes to me and tells me he's gonna fail his international economics final exam
>he hasn't been going to class all semester but he's turned in some assignments, had a C or D or something
>tells me he'll pay me $500 to take his essay-based final exam for him. said he only expects me to get a C on it
>says he hasn't gone to any classes except the first one, so if the professor questions me I'll just pretend to be him and admit I've skipped class all semester
>I accept his challenge
>study all weekend
>go to the final exam in "incognito mode", not wearing my usual glasses, wearing a hat, different clothes, etc.
>go to the classroom
>it's literally a 25 person class
>oh jesus help me
>sit down, receive test
>it's like 3 short answer questions or something
>sign test as friend's name
>missionimpossibletheme.mp3
>turn the test into the professor, look him in the eyes, say thank you, walk out
>pic is professor's face when he probably knew i was cheating but didn't give a shit

I was such a fucking idiot back then. If I'd been caught I could've been kicked out of school or at least had some kind of formal reprimand for academic dishonesty on my record. I think I ended up getting a B on the exam.

there's a prof at my current school who's known for being extremely paranoid about the security of his tests when students visit his office hours. i think only one student is allowed in at a time.

Not exactly a cheating story but relevant.
>be me
>taking multiple choice exam
>some chad sitting beside me
>asks me rudely to let him look at my answers
>say no
>exam starts
>realize he's trying to peek at my shit
>put in wrong answers on purpose
>erase and correct them in the last couple minutes
>mfw chad failed the course
Teach him to be polite.

lmfao

i went to ucirvine and for 3 quarters of physics and six of math we were never once allowed to use a calculator

in my university, you need to bring ID into exams so that would have never happened.

how were you supposed to deal with exponential functions, logarithms and so on?

Not him but itst he same for me: the tests are designed so that everything important can be calculated manually. You get grades based on your ability to solve the problem, not for using a calculator after all.
I like it better this way since it saves the time needed to mash numbers into a calculator.

4u

>chink is honest but white man cheats
Nice try Chang

> EE Masters student
> sit in on Bachelor level analogue electronics lecture for credit points because fuck waiting over a year for the uni to hire a prof that can teach multichannel systems
> already heard all this shit
> bored
> start checking all his math and diagrams rigorously
> find errors, tell him about them
> after 4 weeks, everyone expects me to know all the answers and to check for errors
> stop pointing out some of the errors
> deliberately confuse prof with slightly off-topic questions towards end of lecture, then point out an "error" in his equations that was actually correct
> mfw everyone copies the equations and diagrams wrong

>things that never happened

I'd imagine you would compute symbolically or the test would be made so that everything is easy to evaluate.