Student tricks classmate who keeps stealing his answers, cheater flunks the next test: 'He never copied my tests again'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Aug 2, 2024 8:00 AM EDT

In every high school, there are a handful of students who not only do the bare minimum when it comes to work, but they're also pretty lame when it comes to cheating. Look, no one is going to outright condone stealing someone's answers on a test, but if you're going to be the fool that does it, at least be less obvious about it.

This Redditor figured out that his classmate had been stealing his answers for the past few exams and was starting to worry that his teacher would think that the wrong person was at fault. So, for the next big exam, the Original Poster (OP) decided to enact some petty revenge on his neighboring cheater. First, he wrote down all the wrong answers and led him astray. Then, once the cheater had submitted his test, OP had enough time to change his own answers to the right ones before the period was over. You can imagine how the cheater reacted when he saw how he did compared to his neighbor.

For more stories like this, check out this post about an employee who demanded a public apology from his boss.

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    "I Intentionally Gave a Cheater Wrong Answers" 9 837 C 90 C C 00 CUESTION O C O G 900 00 4600 3000 900 C C O 900 90
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    So my first engineering degree was in Mechatronics Engineering. It was the last semester and we were in an Industrial Mechanisms class. The entire time I had gone to college there were two guys that we will call CJ
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    and Solomon (because that was their real names). They were the most obnoxious and arrogant people you'd ever meet. They were loud,
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    annoying, , profane, and just overall terrible people. To top it off they didn't like me because I usually finished my tests first and got good remarks from my teachers.
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    Well CJ was kind of an Idiot that rode the coattails of His friend Solomon pretty often. Neither were great,
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    but Solomon tried harder than CJ usually. In this Mechanisms class, everyone thought the tests were pretty tough. Lots of formulas, memorization,
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    etc.... on top of really long tests in general. In this class, I had been unfortunate enough for CJ to sit beside me all
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    semester. I knew that he had been cheating off of my tests and lab work (I found out later he stole my lab papers and copied some programs I had written). On this test, I decided to let him suffer.
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    On the test, I wrote down wrong answers everywhere. EVERYWHERE. Answer is true? False. Answer is 76.8lb-ft? 55.9HP. I would leave enough right so it wasn't obvious, but I bombed that test. Then I started "stretching" and "checking my answers."
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    While doing this, I saw him frantically and casually copying my answers. When he was done, he turned his test in and I went back and changed all of my answers.
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    When the teacher gave us our tests back, he had BOMBED it. I still remember the look of shock on his face. He then looked over to my test and saw the grade
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    on it. I then saw him checking "his" answers and my answers in utter confusion. Then there was a look of realization and he seemed . He never copied my tests again.
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    The_Dide⚫ 11 hr. ago Great Success!!
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    unicacher. 10 hr. ago This is the way. I encourage my students to embrace this method. Best ever was "purple dinosaur" in response to a math question.
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    Flattars 9 hr. ago Ive gotten my engineering degree as well couple of years ago. I can remember that we had to do some rather difficult practical
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    lab work and then write a report on it afterwards for Fluid Dynamics. It was 3 months of lab work + 3 months of report writing. A...."friend" kept asking for my report to "compare" so he (in his words) could adjust the layout etc. of course he wouldn't copy.
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    This was my second degree, I got one in computer science before, and worked in IT for a couple of years so I know my way around metadata of files. I sent him my report, after making sure, the file had my name locked in as original author.
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    My professor pulled me aside after handing in reports, asking, why this guy handed in a file with my name as author. I told him the story. He made him fail the course. I later wrote my thesis for that professor, great lad.
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    Adventurous-Algae-41. 10 hr. ago I noticed a classmate copying my answers like this once as well. I stood a folder up next to my page half way through the test so he couldn't see it any longer. Funny how he got the first half of the test all correct and the second half almost entirely wrong. (A,B,C multiple choice questions)
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