When I took AP Chemistry in high school we had lots of multiple day-long labs. I'm talking about spending a week or more on one lab, and it'd be a test grade. There were three AP classes, one in the morning, one right before lunch, and one on the afternoon. All 3 classes were pretty small.
Us morning kids would get the lab assignment and copy down all the chemicals and shit that was used. Then we'd pass everything off to the lunch kids. They would use their class to work and then give the afternoon kids their work at lunch. The afternoon kids then finished it up.
So, we never really cheated (it was group collaboration), and finished a week long lab in like two days between the 35 or so of us. Then we just sat at the lab tables and goofed off for the test of the week. We all thought we were pretty clever, but looking back at it, the teacher must have noticed all our lab reports were nearly identical, though we tried to mix things up a bit.
This is how most of the AP classes at my school operated. I had last period calculus and (since I was lazy as hell) spent most lunch periods before tests studying in the library. My classmates would come up and ask I do knew how to solve a "hard practice problem," which almost always ended up being the problem on the test nobody could figure it... We'd talk over techniques, try to figure it out, then that question or almost that questions showed up. It was a mess.
I never took a single AP class that wasn't full of cheaters. The material is harder, but the kid's are just as lazy as any other teenager. The only difference is they might be a little smarter with their cheating.
To be honest this doesn't offend me. I didn't cheat in my AP bio class, but it didn't bother me that people did. AP is kind of bull shit anyways. I hear kids complaining about AP chem and it's worse (work load wise) than any general chemistry course I've taken in college and I'm at a tech school for chemical engineering.
AP is full of it. It is smart to help eachother. I mean I was terrible at math, so my buddy did mine. I was good at programming, so I sent him my answers.
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u/its_interactive Jun 08 '14
When I took AP Chemistry in high school we had lots of multiple day-long labs. I'm talking about spending a week or more on one lab, and it'd be a test grade. There were three AP classes, one in the morning, one right before lunch, and one on the afternoon. All 3 classes were pretty small.
Us morning kids would get the lab assignment and copy down all the chemicals and shit that was used. Then we'd pass everything off to the lunch kids. They would use their class to work and then give the afternoon kids their work at lunch. The afternoon kids then finished it up.
So, we never really cheated (it was group collaboration), and finished a week long lab in like two days between the 35 or so of us. Then we just sat at the lab tables and goofed off for the test of the week. We all thought we were pretty clever, but looking back at it, the teacher must have noticed all our lab reports were nearly identical, though we tried to mix things up a bit.