Posts from ‘April, 2008’

Using Technology to Cheat
• Calculator: programmable calculators can hold text, formulas, even pictures.

• Watch: “data bank” watches can hold crib notes
• Pager: Setting electronic pagers to store messages students can conveniently call up when the teacher’s not looking. In one variant, a high-tech student used a tiny wireless video camera in a […]

Pencil/Pen
• Engraved Pencil: Etch them (notes) on a standard #2 pencil (the 6 sided type) with a new sharp razor blade. Don’t etch too deeply. Then, when you need the engraved information just rub your sweaty fingers over the etchings to get some dirt into them so they become visible. It’s virtually undetectable if […]

Clothing
• Shoes: Write some facts on the bottom of your shoes.
• Hat: Hat: write notes on it in pencil to read during the test while your head is down. The teacher can’t see your eyes looking up at your visor because the visor blocks their view. The pencil then erases or rubs off […]

Body Parts
• Hands/Arms: the old standby! Write on your hands or arms and hide it from the professor with hand position or sleeves. The webbing between the fingers is a good place.
• Ankles: cross your leg over your knee and pull down your sock to view.
• Legs: Make a crib sheet with […]

Crib sheets
Students have devised a wide variety of places to hide cheat sheets.
• Desk/Chair: the night before, write the crib sheet on the desk you’ll use. Either write in pencil (hard to see, easy to erase) or whittle an eraser to a point and write using the eraser. You could also write in on […]

Copying from neighbors’ papers
• Sit next to the person you want to cheat from. If there are different versions of the test, either mix them up while they’re being passed out (so you and your seatmate end up with the same version) or sit diagonally behind the person you want to cheat from.
• […]

Note: This document is really designed for teachers, not cheaters. I compiled it after weeks of “lurking” on cheat sites. Most tips are in the cheaters’ own words.

Get advance copies of the exam

• break into professor’s office
• hack into professor’s computer
• bribe copyist
• bribe TA
• consult test banks (most commonly […]

By James Anthony
Cheating in exams seems to be big business today and a quick tour of Internet sites will not only give you some ideas about how to cheat, but will give you the contact details of people who will help you.
Now when we say help, what we really mean is people who will happily […]

14 Apr 2008, 0404 hrs IST,B K Mishra,TNN
They burn the midnight oil, not to cram up lessons, but to cram as many words and formulae as possible into shirt cuffs, saree pleats and kurtas. Cheating in examinations has been turned into an innovative art by some students of Patna University.
A girl was caught copying answers […]