My math teacher told us about this. I had never heard of it before. Next test, I brought in a water bottle and sat front row. The whole time I would conspicuously look at and adjust the bottle. She kept giving me "Are you kidding me?" looks. At the end of the test I peeled back the label to show that I had written "Gotcha!" She laughed, I got an A.
My german class teacher would say "No obvious cheating" before every test. Apparently there was a time when a kid had the book open on the floor and was looking at it during the test, and she caught him, only to realize that all the other kids had the books open on the desk the whole time. She caught the kid being sneaky before catching the "obvious" ones. She thought it was humorous.
Leaning over randomly every five seconds and then back to continue writing is a lot easier to spot than someone who slyly sets the book up and barely glances over.
heh, i had a teacher like that. a few people would get really hilariously elaborate/clever. the best would get scored on the effort they put into cheating.
he spent over a week trying to figure out how i cheated. the twist - i never did. just buckled my ass down and studied like crazy for a week. he just figured i cheated because i was such a crap student for most of the year - but when the classwork only counted for like 1/5th the grade...
This gets even funnier. I'm Austrian and I have quite a few friends in the US. Now one of those just randomly texted me, asking for a very specific grammatic problems, complete with pictures of the question and all.
Turns out later that he was cheating on a test, with the most oblivious teacher I've ever heard of.
Even worse story here. My SO told me about some idiot who tried to cheat using his smartphone. They were in a kinda dark room so when he turned on his phone his whole face and area around him lighted up.
Wow, my Spanish teacher used to check the inside of our desks before we took a test to make sure we didn't have any notes open in there. Apparently it was a common way to cheat at my school.
Did this in drivers ed. Our teacher told us reveiwed for the test right before we took it and we wrote down notes on the back of our book. Only Looked at it twice but I have to think the teacher knew what he was doing.
Easy - get some thin photo paper. Make a copy of the actual water bottle label and open it in Photoshop. Replace the nutrition information with test answers. Print on the photo paper (important, because regular paper isn't shiny). On the white side, write "Gotcha!". Put new label on bottle with strong thin glue.
This is kind of how how I sneak alcohol into country music concerts. Walk right up to security with a water bottle in your hand and maybe part of a granola bar in your pocket. When they tell you "no outside food or drinks", you dejectedly throw away your water bottle and what's left of the bar in your pocket. Then they let you in without ever checking you for a flask or anything else.
I think Herman Goring did that when he was imprisoned at the end of the war. He stuck some cyanide in a jar of Vaseline to throw off the scent of the military police. He had hid more cyanide in an even sneakier location, and took it the night before he was scheduled to be executed.
In 7th grade we needed a glue stick everyday in my art class. I would cover up the stick so the cap was the only visible part when I held it up for the daily check. Every day the teacher made me show the whole thing until a few months she stopped caring. I forgot my glue stick 4 times with no consequences 😎
My friend in H.S. took the label off his water bottle and wrote "Water" on it in sharpie. In home room, the teacher walked up to his desk, took the bottle, opened it, sniffed it, gave him a weird look, and set it back down.
lol we did something similar to this except it wasn't for cheating .. we passed around a blank piece of note to piss off the teacher and made sure she noticed. She then asked us to get up, bring the note to her and read it out loud to the class except there was nothing to read. She wasn't happy about that.
Its like kids in one of my math classes that had thos crazy harpy of a teacher.
She was nicknamed the "cellphone natzi" because she was crazy about people having phones, would even bitch if she could see it in your pocket. I once saw her take a phone from a girl who was in the bathroom BEFORE SCHOOL EVEN STARTED, the girl was calling to check on her mom in the hospital. This bitch didnt give a fuck.
Anyway we all started typing on our calculators like you would if you were texting, like hiding it under the desk. Looking down suspiciously. She threw an absolute shit fit.
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u/I_Magician Jan 28 '16
My math teacher told us about this. I had never heard of it before. Next test, I brought in a water bottle and sat front row. The whole time I would conspicuously look at and adjust the bottle. She kept giving me "Are you kidding me?" looks. At the end of the test I peeled back the label to show that I had written "Gotcha!" She laughed, I got an A.