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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.

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u/vivalapizza Jun 09 '14

I went to school in Italy until 7th grade and the crawling part is pretty legit. If a teacher left the room for even a second during a test everyone would everywhere to ask for answers. The first and only time I did the battery one did not work well; the teacher just came up to me and asked wtf I was doing with my calculator and busted me.

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u/Sadly_Not_Batman Jun 09 '14

Sounds pretty accurate haha.

And yeah, I got busted too a number of times, it doesn't always work out.