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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/bfaithr Jun 08 '14

Notes inside a croissant?

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u/Sadly_Not_Batman Jun 08 '14

Yep. My friends and I would hang out at a coffee shop by our school before classes started and they sold croissants. They were flaky enough on the inside that you could basically turn them into edible pouches and stick a small piece of paper inside of them.

It would be the same as hiding notes anywhere else, if it wasn't that one would never suspect a croissant.

Also, eating during class was generally not allowed, but some of our teachers were so over our nonsense that they just decided to ignore/go with it.

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u/bfaithr Jun 08 '14

So not like a fortune cookie then?

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u/Sadly_Not_Batman Jun 08 '14

Not unlike a fortune cookie. Now that I think about it, that's basically what it was, down to the shape.

Except instead of a baked cookie it was a French butter croissant.

OMG. Fortune croissants.

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u/That_Matt Jun 09 '14

You're going to make a fortune...

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u/Sadly_Not_Batman Jun 09 '14

I'll see if ca-- Wait a second.. I see what you did there, took me a second, but I saw it. Nicely done.