Cheating 101 - Last Episode

Take a Make-Up

If it’s the night before the test and you still haven’t studied, call the professor and plead illness or a relationship breakup, acting all distraught. Professors cut you slacker if you call them in advance. If you can’t, and you miss the exam, it depends on how strict they are: with some, you can plead your way into a makeup without any proof; with others, you might have to fake a doctor’s note or con your doctor into giving you one. Of course, in the meantime, you’ve interviewed your friends to find out exactly what was on the test (most instructors don’t go to the extra trouble of making out a special make-up test).

Turning In the Exam

• Not handing in the test and later acting all upset because the professor lost it.

• Gleaning answers from turreted-in papers or a post-exam solution sheet, then correcting their paper before handing it in.

• Go up to ask a question and distract the professor long enough to snag someone else’s test or answer sheet. Take it back to the desk, copy answers, and turn both in (be sure not to put them back to back in the stack if you can help it). As a variation, if you don’t like the person, change some of their answers to wrong answers!

After The Exam

• Substituting correct solutions for incorrect ones after the graded tests are handed back.

Collusion

• I sat right behind a girl that I was very good friends with and she had long wavy hair that remained stiff due to hairspray. Come test time I would simply insert my crib sheet into her hair and pull it aside when I needed an answer. I would then lean forward and whisper the answers to her.

• One person goes up to ask a question to the professor, but is really there to distract him/her while others cheat.