31 Teachers Reveal The Most Creatively Genius Ways Their Students Cheated

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May 8, 2019 1:00 PM EDT

These clever students get an A+ for thinking outside of the box when it came to NOT playing by the rules in the classroom. Yes, they're excelling in the rule-breaking cheating category. 

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    Text - NakedEngineer 115d In a lot of my college courses I wasn't allowed to use anything higher than a TI84. So I took the guts of my TI89 and swapped it into my TI84 Never got caught
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    Text - 115d Throwmylifeaway000 Not sure if this would work anymore, but if I had a paper to write on a book I didn't read I would find a well written paper online. Then translate the entire thing from English to German, German to French, French to Spanish, then Spanish back to English. Pull the original paper and the new one up side by side and clean up the grammar on the new paper and you've got the same concept, but written just different enough to not be plagiarism Worked like a charm.
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    Text - vancouver-duder 115d 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 - Knickers_in_a_twist_ 115d Not a teacher but I used to use one of those rectangular erasers because the pencils the teacher gave us were cheap and the erasers only smudged the marks. The eraser came in a cardboard sleeve and I ripped it open and would write test answers on it then erase it after exams for reuse.
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    Text - ScarthMoonblane 115d 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 - alave 115d 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 - lukeydukey .115d In elementary/middle school we had to write a paragraph each week featuring all the vocabulary words included in that unit. One clever kid wrote something along these lines: "One day kid's name had to write a paragraph for English class. He sat down, picked up a pen and used these words in it: proceeds to list out all the words." The teacher only let it go once because she never saw that happen until then.
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    Text - [deleted] 115 d Im not a teacher but I was a student. I had a friend who knew Kurdish and Turkish(We all know Turkish ofc)Anyway.he had to move from his city due earthquake and come to opposite side of the country(Istanbul). He was writing his notes in Kurdish on his desk and 1 desk in front of him.Since none of the teachers and us knew Kurdish it was like gibberish to us,but we knew he was writing down notes in Kurdish
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    Text - Jubjub0527 115d I can name the worst, and I've definitely shared it before, but it wasn't my student, it was a friend's. She'd downloaded a worksheet for the kids to do while she was in a meeting of some sort. Kids found the worksheet's answer sheet online and proceeded to copy the answers. Last answer said "student responses will vary." And that's what one kid wrote as his answer. Other times you'll see one kid misspells something or gets an answer wrong, and everyone who copied from him
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    Text - Piano_Fingerbanger 115d So, as a teacher the smartest way I "cheat" is by giving the kids a notecard and telling them they can put whatever cheat sheet stuff on there they want. It tricks them into actually studying for their math tests Also a pro tip from a math teacher; most students don't know how to study for math and this is why they struggle. Think of studying math like practicing an instrument. You need to "learn a piece" by practicing multiple problems from skill set. If you aren'
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    Text - gmacWV 115d 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 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 like it'd been handwritten.
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    Text - Wooshmeister55 115d Ihad summaries of chemistry and a load of math formulas on my graphic calculator (ti-83) and i had a backup on a thumb drive so that i could put it back after a mandatory reset
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    Text - 11JulioJones11 115d I remember a story from my O-chem professor. This student all semester who wasn't showing up to class kept getting his score improved significantly after re-grades. They got their tests back, had a day to review them, and were allowed to re-submit for a regrade. They knew he was cheating because of the unlikelihood of the grading mistakes on multiple exams but the TAs who graded it couldn't confidently say it wasn't their handwriting Ultimately it was an office worker
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    Text - babydragon0 S 115d 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 - lukeydukey 115d In elementary/middle school we had to write a paragraph each week featuring all the vocabulary words included in that unit. One clever kid wrote something along these lines: "One day kid's name had to write a paragraph for English class. He sat down, picked up a pen and used these words in it: proceeds to list out all the words." The teacher only let it go once because she never saw that happen until then.
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    Text - torbotoj_ 115d 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 - AmericanMuskrat 115d 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 - atticusfinch1973 .115d 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 - JuiceCastillo S22.115d 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 couple years and I'm gr
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    Text - owenthevirgin S In high school I was in a computer based learning program and our science tests were taken digitally. However, they 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 2 115d 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 text) was not able
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    Text - Macabalony 115d I was a TA for anatomy and physiology. The professor would ask for me to sit in on finals to prevent cheating. One kid came in with a vitamin water. No worries Half way through the test the professor noticed they kept turning the bottle and squinting. This goes on for another twenty minutes. Professor goes up. Grabs the vitamin water bottle and rips off the label. It had a crilb sheet written. On the back. The students had gone to the effort to make a fake vitamin water bo
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    Text - MayUseThe FuckWord 115d 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 - Lars_Ebk 115d 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 - [deleted] 115d Writing down math formulas and putting them in the instructions insert of the calculator. More recently, kids will put the answers on their smart watches. It's to the point where I make all students removes their watches and place them on the classroom counter before the test starts.
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    Text - Back2Bach 115d During a keyboard harmony lab exam (a room with 28 keyboards), one devious student had previously recorded another student's perfect performance of the exam piece on MIDI <in-out- through> The cheater played the recorded piece on MIDI, but used all the right hand motions on his keyboard at the back of the room to try to fool me that he was actually playing it in real time. Unfortunately for him, the student he recorded happened to be my piano student, recognized the distinc
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    Text - Cont4x 115d 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 you would understan
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    Text - JustAbel 115d Printing a fake waterbottle label with test information on it.
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    Text - itellteacherstories 115d I was supervisinga final chemistry exam along with another coworker. Not 15 minutes in, a hand slams down ona 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 kids were silently tapp
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    Text - Staroze S 115d 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 - clitclamchowder 115d 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 - Joshiebear 115d I had class in the AM with a kid who was a TA for my physics class the afternoon before (weird period system at my old school). He would tell me the answers to app tests he had graded the day before and I would write them in black ink on the side of the sole of my black boots. I would then sit with my leg bent with my foot on my knee and read the answers during the test. You couldn't see them unless the light hit the ink just right. After the test I would just lick my fing
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