22 People Share The Most Creative Cheating Strategies They've Ever Seen

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Eric Lund
Jan 16, 2019 2:00 PM EST

Some of these innovative ways to cheat are so complex and time consuming that it might actually be easier to just study. We do not endorse the idea of cheating on exams, but above all else,  if we can stress one thing to not do, that'd be getting caught.

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    Text - sarahsuebob 60.1k points 3 days ago4 2 I'm a high school teacher, but this story is about my own high school math teacher playing us and "cheating." It was an honors algebra/geometry class, and it was well known that Mr D re-used the same questions every year, just changed the numbers. He made a big deal about making sure we all gave our exam papers back to him after we had looked at our scores and gone over everything together to prevent cheating for the next year. Well, of course, some
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    Text - ScarthMoonblane 54.9k points 3 days ago College physics, girl with a really intricate tattoo on her leg wrote formulas in between the tattoo lines. Even looking closely you couldn't tell unless you knew what you were looking for. You could tell it was test day because she wore shorts.
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    Text - gmacWV 41.5k points 3 days agoS There was a class that allowed you to bring one sheet of handwritten notes to exams. I knew a guy that created a font of his own handwriting and used to print the entire study guide onto a piece of notebook paper, front and back. He even set the font color to pencil grey and managed to get the margins and spacing exactly right to look like it'd been handwritten.
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    Text - atticusfinch1973 36.0k points 3 days ago My girlfriend works for a dental exam company which are obviously super high stakes exams. Since the exams are worldwide they have actually found people from one time zone paying people from another time zone to email questions to them right before the exam starts
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    Text - 2 days ago2 JuiceCastillo 33.8k points 2 Not the student but the teacher So, the teacher, let's call him Mr. A, had a reputation for being a phenomenal teacher who had every student engaged/invested in his class, no matter how mundane the subject. Any time he asked a question, every student's hand would shoot in the air with them shouting things like "call on me!" or "I know the answer!" Simply, Mr. A developed a reputation in the district as one of its best teachers. Fast forward a coupl
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    Text - Staroze 32.1k points 2 days ago S My exams that used a graphic calculator (TI-84) required us to show the examiners a "proof of reset" screen before the papers started so instead of actually studying for my papers, I painstakingly redrew the "proof of reset" screen pixel by pixel in the TI-84s pixel art program and stored all my notes in it
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    Text - Chaps_and_salsa 25.2k points 3 days ago I was grading a written assignment that had a 1000 word count minimum and one particular paper just felt really short to me despite word telling me it was roughly 1100 words long. On a hunch I hit CTRL-A and sure enough after the paper concluded there was a lot of white nonsense text on a white background
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    Text - echelon_01 25.4k points 3 days ago During a spelling test: "Miss, how do you spell piano?" The spelling word was piano. Teacher went on autopilot and started spelling the word.
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    Text - AmericanMuskrat 24.7k points 3 days ago Physics professor posted the answers to the homework online after it was due. Thing was, he was just making the existing pages visible and the URLS followed a simple and predictable format. If you knew the URL you could look at it before it was made public. http://fakeaddress.physics.edu/physics/HomeWork001 002 003, etc...
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    Text - jonnyg112 23.3k points 3 days ago edited 2 days ago My sister in law is a teaching assistant at her kids school. Her youngest daughter (My niece) was 7 at the time. She stole the test the night before, pretended it was homework and had her mom "help her with her homework" then sneaked the answers in to the test. One of the other kids caught her, let the teacher know and my SIL, who was overseeing test conditions, died inside when she realised it was the homework sheet that she'd filled ou
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    Text - Lars_Ebk 22.6k points 3 days ago A classmate was printing the answers on his paper in a veeeerry pale grey so that it barely can be seen. Still got caught because the teacher noticed him reading an empty sheet.
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    Text - edited 2 days ago MayUseTheFuckWord 21.7k points 3 days ago Stretch a rubber band around a text book, write whatever you want on it, then when you take it off the textbook, it'll just look like scribble until you stretch it to see what's written. Spanish conjugations drove me to do some incredibly unethical things.
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    Text - alave 20.9k points 2 days ago High school kids recreated a Snapple label where the nutrition panel on the back had all the answers, formulas, etc. only got caught because I'd never seen the flavor before and wanted to see how much sugar was in it.
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    Text - Cont4x 19.1k points 3 days ago As a student, I remember when my entire year level was accused of cheating, as the test results came back consistently high. What the teachers failed to realise, was that some of the answers were actually hidden in other questions So if you got stuck on one question, you could find the answer later on in another question. An example would be (this was a japanese language test) "What does word mean" and later on, a question would use that word in context, so
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    Text - Badgerpackbrew 18.3k points 3 days ago Used a text file on one of the original iPods. Teacher was fine with "listening to music" during tests. Made my life so much easier lol
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    Text - vancouver-duder 17.4k points 3 days ago One of my old teachers told us a story about a student who had rigged up a tiny scroll of paper in a wristwatch with notes written on it. He turned the scroll by winding the watch He ended up getting caught because he was winding his watch so damn much during the exam, but the teacher loved the creativity
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    Text - owenthevirgin 17.4k points 2 days ago In high school I was in a computer based learning program and our science tests were taken digitally. However, they 2 used a program where once you entered the test your entire screen was locked into the test and the only way to exit it was to click the finish button on the test or turn off your computer which effectively did the same thing Another feature of the program was that once you were in the test, anything you had in your clipboard (copied te
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    Text - edited 2 days ago S babydragon0 16.6k points 2 days ago My teacher shared with us a story about how since she allowed eating during her tests, one person pulled out a giant bag of M&Ms and ate a specific color corresponding to A/B/C/D. It was a two student duo and they only got caught when another student ratted them out.
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    Text - torbotoj 15.6k points 3 days ago A classmate broke the screen and keyboard of his calculator and hid his cellphone in it, so it couldn't be seen from the teacher's position. The teacher approached him from behind and caught him tho.
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    Text - clitclamchowder 12.3k points 2 days ago edited 2 days ago I passed a pop quiz in high school by looking across the room and focusing on the top of the smart girls' pencil and trying to decipher if she wrote A B C or D after the teacher asked each question. It actually turned out more successful than I thought it would.
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    Text - Pkambhama 12.1k points 3 days ago I remember in middle school we would rely on the one kid who actually studied. Most of the quizzes our teachers gave was multiple choice so if the answer was A, the kid would cough, if the answer was B, he would sniffle, if the answer was C, he would sigh and if the answer was D, he would stretch in his seat. Everyone in my science class was eventually that kid. Every time there was a quiz, a different person in the class would study
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    Text - itellteacherstories 8.3k points 3 days ago I was supervising a final chemistry exam along with another coworker. Not 15 minutes in, a hand slams down on a desk and I turn around expecting the worst, only to see my coworker angrily shouting at a pair of really frightened 10th graders whose desk he smashed. Amidst the shouting I caught the words, "Morse code". The guy proceeded to take them to the office. I called a hallway supervisor to take over and ran after the group. Apparently, the ki
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