‘Not on my watch’: Teacher Fails Entire Class by Giving Them Different Tests So They Can’t Use Their Usual Cheating Strategy

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    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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    Students thtought they could easily cheat at the test, not on my watch
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    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
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    other institute, public or not, of my hometown. 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,
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    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 chemistry, it's as
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    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. It's THAT simple. 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
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    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
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    was the same, down to the last step. 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
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    just mixing things up a bit was way enough to jeopardize their genius plan? 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
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    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. Edit: typo, genious-->genius.
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    Kaiser93 2 days ago My mom is a teacher. One day, she got tired on students cheating on her tests so she decided to go n clear. Let's say Class A has 28 students, Class B has 25 students, Class has 26 students etc. My
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    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!
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    Crafty_Meeting2657. 2 days ago I can imagine the meltdowns.
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    GirlStiletto 2 days 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
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    keeping the correct answers separate and then changing them all at the last minute/
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    kanakamaoli · 2 days ago Lol. My father would do similar for university classes. First, he had different tests with different questions on them, then different colored papers for the tests. Then around half way thru the semester,
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    he would switch to the same questions, same order, but different colored paper. He got tired of having multiple answer keys. He would see the slower
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    students sit next to the good ones, then their face fall when a different color test question packet was given to them.
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    ferretkona 2 days ago When I was in H.S. I usually slept during my history class. One day the teacher asked me to stay after the bell. He asked me how I was doing it, I asked what he was talking about. He
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    mentioned I slept thru his classes but still aced my tests, also that he had given me different tests. I replied that I read the book given to us the first night.
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    DCGuinn 2 days ago I gave a take home test one time and got five good but identical answers among the class. I gave them then divided by five.
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    geneknockout 2 days ago My favourite when I see students look at the student beside them... make two copies of the test but rearrange what a, b, c, and d are. When they copy they get a perfect 0 and it gives me
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    so much pleasure to watch the look on their face when they come to me and say... "Timmy got all the same answers and he has a 96%! Why did I get 0!"
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    Ophiochos 2 days ago I used to know a guy who taught Latin. He found that in translation exams people were just learning sections of poems in English and relying on names and a few latin words to recognise the
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    passages, then trotting them out from memory. So he started leaving out the last two lines of the story. He said about 50% of people gave him the complete poem in their exams.
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    Meihem 76 1 day ago I had a fantastic Physics teacher at college. Rumour was, that a few years before us, he'd set a 100 question multiple choice test where every answer was C.
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    ** GraniteGeekNH. 1 day ago That is just plain evil.
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    mdubelite 2 days ago Did you get any calls from irate parents or 'the administration' after all those precious babies failed?
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    C05m1c-VagRant OP. 2 days ago No, I didn't get any call because as I said their parents were tragically absent which I think is worse than facing an angry "Karen". Maybe one time out of ten you
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    can reason with an angry and conceited parents and make some progress while on the other hand it's just you and a kid you can't reach.

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