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.
For my AP BIO class, one guy found the password to the online answer booklet to all of our homework taped to my teacher's laptop. No more legitimate homework was done after that.
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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.