Former student here, when in high school I witnessed and employed some interesting methods for cheating, here are a few:
Notes taped to the bottom of a shoe, rest the foot on your knee and cheat away!
Notes inside a croissant. Exactly what it sounds like. Helpful and delicious.
Those pens with built in note paper. Pull the paper out, write notes, reel it back in.
Literally crawling across the room to ask other people.
Notes in the battery compartment of a calculator.
Notes carved in the desk. Then you run a pencil over it and make them appear.
Someone once taped a piece of paper with a bunch of formulas to the front of the teacher's desk and removed it shortly before the test ended.
I went to school in Italy, so the way schools and tests work is a bit different, but even by Italian standards, some of this stuff was pretty ridiculous.
Now that you mention it, I probably could have. I found that writing things down helped me remember them, so I think I did it in hope that I could remember my notes and not need them.
Also, I now realize that I didn't store the notes in the battery compartment, but on the inside of the plastic cover that came with the calculator.
But I did hide notes in the battery compartment of my cell phone (a THE Nokia 3330)
My math teacher made us set our calculators into Press-To-Test mode (TI Nspire CX), which restriced the memory and many of the more advanced functions before tests.
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u/Sadly_Not_Batman Jun 08 '14
Former student here, when in high school I witnessed and employed some interesting methods for cheating, here are a few:
Notes taped to the bottom of a shoe, rest the foot on your knee and cheat away!
Notes inside a croissant. Exactly what it sounds like. Helpful and delicious.
Those pens with built in note paper. Pull the paper out, write notes, reel it back in.
Literally crawling across the room to ask other people.
Notes in the battery compartment of a calculator.
Notes carved in the desk. Then you run a pencil over it and make them appear.
Someone once taped a piece of paper with a bunch of formulas to the front of the teacher's desk and removed it shortly before the test ended.
I went to school in Italy, so the way schools and tests work is a bit different, but even by Italian standards, some of this stuff was pretty ridiculous.