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'I knew they would definitely fail': Substitute teacher gets back at cheating students by making an uncheatable test

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    Posted by u/C05m1c-VagRant 5 hours ago Students thtought they could easily cheat at the test, not on my watch Roughly ten years ago I was hired as a substitute science teacher at a private high- school. That institute wasn't particularly renowned and the building had seen better years. It was a last resort for uncaring parents looking for a easy way out for their sons and daughters who failed in every other institute, public or not, of my hometown.
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    As you may have guessed, almost all of them were totally uninterested in pretty much everything, a bunch of bored, spoiled, rich kid with almost no life-goal or whatsoever. I can't totally blame them for how they were, their upbringing was messed up, but having lessons with them could be quite challenging.One day I had enough.We had been stuck for a while on balancing chemical reactions, probabily one of the easiest stuff you have to learn in highschool-level chemistry. In case you never studied
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    It was clear as day that they could not care less and that they would opt for the same old strategy: the day of the test wait for the two smart ones to solve the questions and then cheat off of them.Well, not this time, not on my watch. I prepared 4 different tests that at the core were exactly the same: different reactions (that's a given), different number of moles involved but the way to solve the questions was the same, down to the last step.
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    The way they panicked when they realised that cheating was almost impossible was kind of cute. Well, impossible for them I mean. Why overexert myself and prepare difficult and long questions when just mixing things up a bit was way enough to jeopardize their genius plan?
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    Probably they would have messed up even an ordinary test since they weren't any good even at cheating and moreover giving them a test I knew they would definitely fail at that time of the school year was inconsequential for their grades and hopes to graduate. The panic in their eyes was just a plain, selfish, petty revenge.
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    Crafty_Meeting2657 · 5 hr. ago Definitely satisfying 246 Reply Share Grouchy-Ad4338 · 5 hr. ago Wow. That was a great revenge - very measured. Hope they did learn some lessons though I doubt given given their description. Please do say that how did future tests work out. Didn't the fear stay as you may twist it all around next times too? 472 Reply Share ●●●
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    C05m1c-VagRant OP 3 hr. ago . I don't know but I don't think so. The programmes at that school were kind of weird and soon after we moved on to other subjects about anatomy and geology that required less reasoning and more memorization skill so I couldn't pull the same trick twice. At the end of the year I quit being a teacher and so far I have never met them again. Reply Share 47 ●●●
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    GirlStiletto 4 hr. ago Good for you. As the person people were always cheating off of, I often messed with them. Sometimes taking extra long to solve problems. Sometimes keeping the correct answers separate and then changing them all at the last minute/ 95 Reply Share
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    Kaiser93 3 hr. ago My mom is a teacher. One day, she got tired on students cheating on her tests so she decided to go nuclear. Let's say Class A has 28 students, Class B has 25 students, Class has 26 students etc. My mom decided to make an individual test for every single student. So instead of Group 1 and Group 2, the students got different number from 1 to 30. Checkmate! 15 Reply Share
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    DCGuinn 4 hr. ago I gave a take home test one time and got five good but identical answers among the class. I gave them 100 then divided by five. 16 Reply Share Crafty Meeting2657 1 hr. ago Excellent! 42 Reply Share
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    MScCondor 4 hr. ago • I had a similar approach once. But with grown people, in the university. I provided 3 different exams, but say in the beginning, if i find some "correct" answer in the wrong exam, I would not tolerate any kind of error in any questions for nobody. Explain better: if i get some cheating student, i would score all questions, for all class, as true or false, without any kind of half right/wrong. Many people left the room at the very beginning. I did not find any cheating in th
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    Jack-attack79 5 hr. ago edited 2 hr. ago it's as if I gave you the recipe for a cake for 5 people and then asked you to find out how much flour you need to bake a cake for 8. You would need 60% more flour Reply Share 32
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    Rancid Polecats. 4 hr. ago Holy Avagadro's Number, Batman! Excellent! 8 Digital_loop 4 hr. ago What is this "the guy game"? Reply Share 1 wut. Reply Share . Rancid Polecats - 4 hr. ago 2 ●●● Reply Share

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