Diligent student realizes the quarterback keeps copying their test answers, so they answers them incorrectly to make sure the athlete fails: 'I faked to stand up, shifting in my chair while he shot up and raced to turn in his'

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Emma Saven
Jul 15, 2025 7:00 AM EDT

Revenge is a dish best served cold. 

They say a liar and a cheat always get caught, but what if we go one step further…could we beat them at their own game?

When you're trying to write a test that you actually took the time to study for, and some 'I'm better than everyone' quarterback decides to coincidentally sit next to you in every maths exam…you begin to become a bit more protective over your answers. 

So what's one way to make sure he never copies your tests again…ensuring he falls into the dark pit of the Giant F!

The game plan goes as follows: Circle the false answers, pretend to get up to hand in your paper, and watch him race to the teacher's desk, like he always does, to avoid suspicion. (It's so obvious, buddy!)

Then it's time to POUNCE! Change all your answers to the correct ones, and when your paper returns with a perfect score, watch him sweat…

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  • We've taken the test, and we're stuck on question 15: Moral Dilemma

    Should the studious student confront the athlete honestly, without having to be malicious? Or was the quarterback asking to be unexpectedly tackled from behind?

    There comes a point where you have to teach people a lesson, but maybe that should be left up to the teachers and not the students…

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    Copy My Paper? Fine. Look Like An Id*ot

    I was pretty good at math pretty much since middle school, which is when this occurs. Some of our "star athletes" were not. One in
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    particular used to copy my paper when we sat next to each other. I'm not sure if it had been the first time, but I remember a quiz
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    being passed out and, from the corner of my eye, he was obviously eyeing my paper. No matter how much I moved in
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    order to block his view, he was already unfairly tall, so there wasn't any way of stopping it. I could have told the teacher, of
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    course, but I was already awkward, I didn't want to be a prime subject for more teasing by being a "snitch". So I start doing
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    the math in my head. Taking a few moments longer to do the answers but marking the wrong solutions, to intentionally get him to mark the same ones. When it
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    finally came time to turn in the paper, I faked to stand up, shifting in my chair slightly while he shot up and raced to turn in
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    his, obviously ready to be over it. I grinned gleefully as I changed my previous answers to my carefully filed away correct ones.
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    When the scores came back, he had a 60% failing grade while I had a 90%. I saw his face when he compared out test scores and he
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    quietly mumbled "How?" To which I simply shrugged, telling him "you should keep your eyes on your own paper".
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    Yes, it has been over ten years since this happened, but I still feel a sense of pride for little me when I think about the creatfallen face of my petty revenge coming into fruition lol
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    Zoreb1 LOL. Only a few times did I attempt to cheat and that only on a couple of questions that I wasn't sure of the answer (not the whole test). The two people I tried this on had answers I knew were wrong so never did this again.
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    GirlStiletto I did this with one of the cheerleaders in my HS. She used to play dumb and use her looks and popularity to get away with things. She would always try to be my "bestie" in class and spy on my paper. I let it go for two classes for a while, but as we got closer to the end of the year, I did what you did. ALL the wrong answers.
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    systemicrevulsion I was in the elite mathematics program at primary school. I used to help my friend, explain everything to her then let her copy my answers if she didn't understand. She managed a full semester before getting regraded back to regular class.
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    sgfklm I did the exact same thing in High School. When we got our papers back he came running up to me with a grin saying he couldn't believe I failed a test. I showed him the 100% on my paper. He got the most "deer-in-the-headlights" look on his face and said "How?" I just shrugged and walked away.
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    TechnologyLower6959 Had a student copy another's ENTIRE test....including their name. He was not the brightest bulb....
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    Deep_Chemical_3732 The only times I cheated on questions was when I got an answer in the calculator that didn't match the 4 options I was desperate..
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    Arokthis My teachers were smarter, more experienced, or more dedicated to education than yours were: they passed out different copies of the tests so that nobody had the same one as anyone sitting nearby.
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    Smurfiette We were frequently given take home Calculus problems. Some classmates would ask me the next day to copy my answers. I hand over my papers to them bc there's no way they can copy
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    even just a whole sheet in the few minutes before the start of class. Each calculus problem took over a whole sheet of paper to solve.
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