‘I watch[ed] him fail’: Self-centered student attempts to copy classmate's answers during test, she purposely fills out wrong answers, then changes them as soon as he leaves

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Jul 27, 2024 1:00 PM EDT

Being the nerdy kid in school had its pros and cons. It usually meant that you were smart, and did well in school. You actually enjoyed reading books and had no problem doing homework or studying for tests. Yet being the nerdy kid also meant that you weren't all that popular, and we all know how mean kids can get when they see something they don't like.

Luckily, popularity in school doesn't really get you that far in life, but being smart and actually succeeding in school does, and this petty revenge story on Reddit proves just that. OP (original poster) shared a story from when she was in school, as she was known to be 'a bit nerdy'. During a test, one of her class's self-centered kids asked her if he could copy her answers. OP then saw her opportunity to show her worth and let him copy her test. As soon as he left the classroom, OP erased her answers and filled out the right ones, pettily causing her classmate to fail.

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    "I let him cheat, so I can watch him fail"
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    I let him cheat, so I can watch him fail
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    This was years ago but it still brings a smile to face at times. Back in school, a handful of students, including myself, missed a major test due to extracurriculars. The teacher
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    already arranged for us to take the test in a back room during regular class session. There was a guy, let's call him Eric, who was the typical boy who behaved like he was all that and a bag of chips.
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    obnoxious, and didn't once talk to me... until that hour in the testing room. Back in school, I was mostly quiet. If RBF was a thing back then, I would've been the poster child for it. I was known to be a
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    bit nerdy, so it wasn't a surprise when he sat right next to me, chatting it up. He went on to tell me how I looked like I could be a Victoria's Secret model and I was one of the prettiest girls in school
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    and blah blah blah. He then asked if he could copy my answers. I smiled and said, “sure, give me a few minutes and I'll show you my answer sheet". He grinned and twirled around in his seat, fidgeting with his pencil,
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    making absolutely no effort in taking the test. I look up and whisper, "done. Hurry up and copy". With no hesitation, he hurriedly copies my work. I told him to walk away first so it wouldn't be suspicious. He did. As
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    he was leaving, he did a weird salute and laughed at the other students still taking the exam. As soon as that door shut, I erased the answers I gave him, and filled in the correct answers. I turned
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    my work in shortly after. The teacher said she would take a week to grade them. During that week, Eric didn't say hi to me at all. When he did look in my direction, he would elbow to his friend to laugh at me. I couldn't
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    wait until he got his results. The day finally came. The teacher handed us back our graded tests and the way he
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    stood up shocked shouting, "An F?!", and ran over to me to see my A+ grade, was chefs kiss He definitely stopped laughing at me after that.
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    LEJ5512 · 5 hr. ago A friend of mine did the same thing to a cheater in college, except that she started furiously erasing her faked answers just as he set his test on the professor's desk. He saw her, she looked up at him with a cold stare, and he turned white as a sheet.
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    LaryBeck 11 hr. ago • That revenge deserves an A+
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    unicacher 10 hr. ago I actually encourage my students to do that. We had one prolific cheater one year that was so bad that I had to level up. I told the class with the cheater in the room that if they thought somebody was copying to write the most ridiculous wrong answer and let them copy.
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    She actually wrote "purple dinosaur" in response to a math question, and her fate was sealed. In the end (with help from the above evidence), we got her the academic help she needed, but was consistently denied.
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    Babblewocky 7 hr. ago Guy tried this. Flirted out of nowhere, and sat next to me. As he leaned over my shoulder I wrote on my paper "No one is going to believe you got the answers on your own." When that didn't work, I
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    had a fake coughing fit every time he tried to look over my shoulder. Teacher caught on after a while and watched me as I took the test. Dude called me a bch for weeks, but wouldn't say why.
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    PupperoniPoodle . 5 hr. ago I was thinking OP could've handed in the wrong answer version, and the teacher would've known exactly what happened and still give OP a good grade.
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    Like Spider-Man's teacher telling him the only way to get every question wrong is if he knew all the answers.
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    MightyMightyMag · 10 hr. ago I repeatedly did this, and they came back for more. I particularly love it when they treat you like after the test is put in before the results came back. I would apologize and say," Man, I am so sorry. I s ed it up for both of us.
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    You don't have to look at my tests anymore if you don't want to." But they did want to because they knew I was a good student. I think I may have contributed to an losing his athletic scholarship, at least I hope I did.
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    Drazilou 11 hr. ago Ye olde switcheroo, love that he's got no way of complaining that's not revealing his own deceit
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    Kind-Security-3390 - 9 hr. ago Poetic justice indeed
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    Piddy3825 11 hr. ago ah, petty revenge - best served incorrectly...
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