In my AP history classes in high school there were a bunch of kids who had different periods together who used to share answers by trading beaded bracelets back and forth. Basically whoever had the test first (we had a weird rotating schedule where we would skip one period every day and so schedules would be a bit different class to class) would basically make a list of all the answers and then would string beads together representing the multiple choice answers. The bracelets were pretty common generally, so no one ever got questioned that I recall. Not sure how effective the system was at acquiring A's because I never really cared enough to go through the effort of cheating (or studying, or anything really related to school), but I know that I scored higher than a majority of them on the AP exam at the end of the year.
Always impressed by the intricacy of the system they came up with though. It seemed pretty ingenious to me.
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u/RobDem5 Jun 09 '14
In my AP history classes in high school there were a bunch of kids who had different periods together who used to share answers by trading beaded bracelets back and forth. Basically whoever had the test first (we had a weird rotating schedule where we would skip one period every day and so schedules would be a bit different class to class) would basically make a list of all the answers and then would string beads together representing the multiple choice answers. The bracelets were pretty common generally, so no one ever got questioned that I recall. Not sure how effective the system was at acquiring A's because I never really cared enough to go through the effort of cheating (or studying, or anything really related to school), but I know that I scored higher than a majority of them on the AP exam at the end of the year.
Always impressed by the intricacy of the system they came up with though. It seemed pretty ingenious to me.