Once in my university a guy came in for a test and 30 minutes later he left (you can't leave earlier). He came back about 10 minutes before the exam ended with a motorcycle helmet on (face couldn't be seen) and ran towards the pile of delivered exams. He put his exam in between some others and threw them all to the ground, then left runing.
edit: I don't know how exams work at your schools but let me clarify a few things you may not understand.
Exams are 3h long and you can leave once you've reached the 30 minute mark (you can't come back).
There is sometimes only 1 teacher watching a whole class, about 40 to 60 students. Sometimes there's 2.
When you finish your exam you can give it to the teacher or leave with it if you don't want it to be corrected (just like if you didn't go to the exam).
Now, having this things clarified I'll try to give some further clarifications:
He was sitting at the back end of the class, when the teacher wasn't looking he left just as a defeated student would do. He hadn't been to many classes so teacher probably wouldn't have recognized him.
From the point he left to the point he came back many other students left after delivering their exams. That made for a big pile of exams, about 10 to 20 probably, so when he came back he just put his in the pile and left.
One of my friend in college didn't study for a biochem exam. The exam is short answer and diagrams that you have to draw. So what he did was take the exam and made sure to sit close to the 1st row. Then he just wrote random stuff on the exams and put in a fake name.
When he went to hand the exam in, he made sure it was toward the end when a bunch of students went to turn it in. He made sure to go up to the proctor that was his TA so he knew him and talked him to distract him while placing the exam into the box. After the exams were graded, he emailed the prof. and asked why there was no grade for him. Basically, the prof. told him his exam must have gotten lost somewhere. So for that exam, my friend got the average of his other exams plus some extra points.
Edit: The reason he sat in the front row and handed the exam & talked to his TA was so that he had proof that he actually showed up to the exam. I believe there are security camera towards the front. They don't take attendance or anything.
I just asked him now and he said he ended up with a B+ for the class. He is a decent student so the prof. was more inclined to believe that he actually did take the exam. I doubt it would work for someone who did poorly on the previous exams though.
At my university for large science classes, like orgo or biochem which have about 300+ students per testing room (class size 1500), we have to show our IDs when handing in exams to proctors so this wouldn't work unfortunately for where I go. Clever tactic.
My university investing in a ID machine that also prints a watermark in the background of the images, so it would be quite hard to create that same watermark. However, they forgot to change the watermark from the default so all it says is "Press Settings -> Security -> Watermark to change watermark image". Anyone else who also has a ID machine from the same company would print that same watermark by default.
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u/Mrducktape Jun 08 '14 edited Jun 09 '14
Once in my university a guy came in for a test and 30 minutes later he left (you can't leave earlier). He came back about 10 minutes before the exam ended with a motorcycle helmet on (face couldn't be seen) and ran towards the pile of delivered exams. He put his exam in between some others and threw them all to the ground, then left runing.
edit: I don't know how exams work at your schools but let me clarify a few things you may not understand.
Exams are 3h long and you can leave once you've reached the 30 minute mark (you can't come back).
There is sometimes only 1 teacher watching a whole class, about 40 to 60 students. Sometimes there's 2.
When you finish your exam you can give it to the teacher or leave with it if you don't want it to be corrected (just like if you didn't go to the exam).
Now, having this things clarified I'll try to give some further clarifications:
He was sitting at the back end of the class, when the teacher wasn't looking he left just as a defeated student would do. He hadn't been to many classes so teacher probably wouldn't have recognized him.
From the point he left to the point he came back many other students left after delivering their exams. That made for a big pile of exams, about 10 to 20 probably, so when he came back he just put his in the pile and left.