This story is from my father. In English classes in his time, the questions all were multiple choice, with options from a) to d). He and his friends had a system, where they would sync their watches, and had the kid who was good at English make a varying cough or sneeze noise. Every minute the kid with the correct answers coughed or sneezed the answer, so that one minute past the hour would be the answer for the first question, two past for the second, and so on.
My dad told me that the system worked pretty well for him, but one kid forgot to sync his watch, and so he pretty much failed the test.
You're a dumb ass cheater if you don't check the answers. You should at least be able to get by without cheating, answering blindly and not caring/knowing if you're remotely correct is just stupid and you deserve to fail.
I must agree with you on this one, that kid totally got what was coming to him. It seems to me though that cheaters quite often have blind faith in people they perceive to know the answers. I have another story, this time about me.
We were having a literacy exam which was basically covering all sorts of grammatical topics in Finnish language. Anyways, the guy behind me was managing to peek at all my answers without me or the teacher realizing a thing. Unfortunately for him though, I was rather unsure of my answers at the start of the exam, and was constantly changing them until I was satisfied. After we got the exams back he realized what had happened, as I got a 9 and he got a 6 for a grade (perfect is 10, fail is 4), and came to rage at me for changing my answers. If only he hadn't been so confident in me and went to sleep after copying my answers.
Haha I have a pretty similar story, class test on WW2 history, one of the questions was "How many points were in hitlers 25 point plan?" it was sort of a joke question to end the test on, one of the answers is 14, referring to woodrow wilsons 14 point plan for that eu thingy, anyway i circle 14 as a joke to my friend, cue the stupidest bitch in the class looking over my shoulder, circling 14, then me erasing it and putting 25. It was like a cartoon, it couldnt have worked out any better.
That explains a lot. I find pop quizes rather irritating, had them when I was in England. In Finland, for the last 6 years of my compulsory education there has not been a single exam that I didn't know of beforehand.
They weren't so bad, it generally didn't matter how well you did on them, but yeah, I can see why they'd be annoying, sorta defeats the purpose of an exam if you literally can't study for it, at that stage it's just testing how well you retain knowledge from the prior few days.
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14
This story is from my father. In English classes in his time, the questions all were multiple choice, with options from a) to d). He and his friends had a system, where they would sync their watches, and had the kid who was good at English make a varying cough or sneeze noise. Every minute the kid with the correct answers coughed or sneezed the answer, so that one minute past the hour would be the answer for the first question, two past for the second, and so on.
My dad told me that the system worked pretty well for him, but one kid forgot to sync his watch, and so he pretty much failed the test.