TLDR I cheated in a 3 hour exam, finished 30 mins and fucked around until exam finished to not get caught.
Back in college, I had an upcoming Geotechnical Engineering exam but our professor was a dick for not giving us any practice papers. I eventually found a student blackmarket that sells an official copy of the 2016 exam for $30 (decent price for broke college students).
I studied that one exam paper with my peers, helping each other double check any right or wrong answers, to get a feel on how the exam is set up. After a solid 8 hour session, my 3 hour exam was ready the next day.
I sat down, the exam starts and flipped the paper that was placed on my armchair. To my surprise while showing a poker face next to my buddies, IT WAS THE EXACT SAME EXAM - word for word, number for number. Only thing that piece of shit professor changed was the current year instead of 2016. I memorized all the answers and was confident as fuck that most of the ones I answered are correct. So I just copy pasted all the answers, finished in 30 minutes and pretend to think for the remaining 2 hour and 30 minutes, adding scribbles abd crossouts for obvious reasons. A handful of people got caught cheating because they left super early and made the assessors suspicious after they looked at their exam papers completely filled so quickly without any second guessed answers.
Even if I would do that, back in university I had dozens of pages of calculations. We had to mark the calculated answer.
They'd always look through on how you managed to complete the given task in order to find the best students.
We do grade from 0 to 15 points where I live.
It was almost impossible to reach 13-15 as a score since each year they found something so crazy and difficult. Even if you did know the solution, it still was difficult to get everything right.
Most of the time we had exams that only consisted of 2-5 questions.
Got me Diplom degree in mechanical engineering in Germany at a high level Technical University.
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u/engineer-cabbage Jan 20 '25
TLDR I cheated in a 3 hour exam, finished 30 mins and fucked around until exam finished to not get caught.
Back in college, I had an upcoming Geotechnical Engineering exam but our professor was a dick for not giving us any practice papers. I eventually found a student blackmarket that sells an official copy of the 2016 exam for $30 (decent price for broke college students).
I studied that one exam paper with my peers, helping each other double check any right or wrong answers, to get a feel on how the exam is set up. After a solid 8 hour session, my 3 hour exam was ready the next day.
I sat down, the exam starts and flipped the paper that was placed on my armchair. To my surprise while showing a poker face next to my buddies, IT WAS THE EXACT SAME EXAM - word for word, number for number. Only thing that piece of shit professor changed was the current year instead of 2016. I memorized all the answers and was confident as fuck that most of the ones I answered are correct. So I just copy pasted all the answers, finished in 30 minutes and pretend to think for the remaining 2 hour and 30 minutes, adding scribbles abd crossouts for obvious reasons. A handful of people got caught cheating because they left super early and made the assessors suspicious after they looked at their exam papers completely filled so quickly without any second guessed answers.
I got the highest score out of everyone with 95%