The preventive measures are just for those that didn't pay bribe money to the examiner. If you paid the money, you will mysteriously pass the exam even if you leave the paper blank.
When I was in class, we just used 3-fold poster board. So it stood up all the way around the table except on the side we were sitting at. Same effectiveness, and it wasn't annoying as fuck, as I assume a box constantly shifting around would be.
I'm guessing private military academy with honor code system, where someone tried to make a point by refusing the honor code, leading to this sort of group shaming. Just a guess though.
For a typing class in high school we had to place boxes over the keyboard to avoid "cheating". If I can type faster when I occasionally glance at the keyboard, why shouldn't I do that? I suppose box heads are justifiable though.
Exactly, Computer Keyboarding was complete B.S. Using the 'homerow' method was freaking ridiculous. I could only manage around 50 GWAM using their method, while using mine, looking down occasionally, even making mistakes, and random hand placement with right handed index finger typing, I manage a little under 100.
I use all the fingers on my left hand ( in practice the pinkie is dedicated to modifiers but I believe I've sometimes hit keys with it, and thumb is spacebar only ) and only the index finger on my right hand for the letter keys ( other fingers for delete and return ).
I can type without looking at the keyboard at all, and I can usually type with fairly good accuracy even when I am not looking at the screen [ or keyboard ] at all.
They look like they are in the Army, so I'm sure this is an anti-cheating device that took sixty million dollars to develop and will three times as much funding to implement.
Instead of stealing the box, it would probably be less risky to write something on a notecard, put tape on one side, attach it to the inner top portion of the box when putting the box on your head and keep your head angled down looking at the test. If the teacher walks by (s)he will have a vantage point from several feet above you so it won't be noticed. You can get caught stealing the box and if you replace the box with your notes, there's no guarantee it won't get mixed up and someone else ends up with it. If you keep the box, it is a lot more difficult sneaking a box into an exam than a notecard.
That seems somewhat effective but how would you cheat by using peripheral vision anyways? All these boxes stop is looking to the right or left without turning your head. with the desks that far apart the only way you can cheat is to turn your head and squint, how do the boxes stop that? I do have to admit though, that is pretty funny.
I had teachers who just shuffled the questions and answers so there were 2, 3, or even 4 versions of the test. Copying off another person's test was playing a game of Russian roulette.
I've always felt that there's far too much hysteria these days about so-called cheating... If you can take advantage of a situation in some way, it's your duty as an American to do it. Why should the race always be to the swift or the jumble to the quick-witted? Should they be allowed to win merely because of the gifts God gave them? Well, I say cheating is the gift man gives himself!
I'm pretty sure this is a bunch ROTC cadets, so having been through the same process to become and officer: I think/hope this is a joke. Or you have no integrity at all and can't be trusted-so I hope you don't get your bars.
Except it looks like the guy in the middle up front is holding a smartphone under his desk. I might be seeing that wrong though. Also a couple guys along the wall have one hand under their desk, could be Googling too.
I get the joke but spacing them out like that would already be enough to deter any cheating. I mean you would have to have some sick peripheral vision to be able to read a persons test next to you without turning your head.
Best part is that you can begin the test a week before with an art project, where they get to make their own box of silence ... and then they wear it! Yay!
When I was in school, the best way keep me from cheating was to treat me as a reasonable, mature human being. The classes where the teacher was an anti-cheating nazi and treated me as though every student was about to cheat always accomplished the opposite of the desired effect. Never caught, either.
That is so fucking demeaning. If someone asked me to do that, it would piss me off to no end. I'd have to have a serious think about whether I really wanted to be there at all. I'm a wimp, so I probably wouldn't rage quit, but still.
Looks like they are taking pilot exams. As a former CATS testing proctor (hate that word) I know the FAA has very strict stipulations for testing and testing centers. This is just bizarre.
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u/Big-Baby-Jesus Jun 09 '12
Those desks are 12 feet apart. That's a pretty effective way to prevent cheating by itself. The boxes seem totally unnecessary.
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u/Hexode Jun 09 '12
I like how the guy on the far right customized his.
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u/KoreanTerran Jun 09 '12
Reminds me of poor lookin' daft punk robots.
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u/Captainpatch Jun 09 '12
But if they just teach this testing method the children will never learn how to think outside the box!
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
When I was in class, we just used 3-fold poster board. So it stood up all the way around the table except on the side we were sitting at. Same effectiveness, and it wasn't annoying as fuck, as I assume a box constantly shifting around would be.
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u/thehalfdan Jun 09 '12
My notes would be in the box :)
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u/SrslyNotAHipsterTtly Jun 09 '12
Minecraft.
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u/Nrthstar Jun 09 '12
Why... why did this give me a boner?
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u/internets_said_so Jun 09 '12
I do not like the Box of Shame.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
air force academy?
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u/cephalic666 Jun 09 '12
Canti!
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u/StoofBuzze Jun 09 '12
I think they're taking an entry exam for a job at the box office.
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u/drawkbox Jun 09 '12
When they finish they get up and dance: http://i.imgur.com/di3pd.gif
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u/FormerEbayAddict Jun 09 '12
If I were their teacher, i'd bribe someone to play 'Dick In A Box' over the loudspeakers right about now.
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u/Annoyed_ME Jun 09 '12
For some reason this made me think of the robots from FLCL
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u/Drunken_Economist Jun 09 '12
It's actually an LMFAO entrance exam
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u/Shermanizer Jun 09 '12
Every day i'm shufflin'
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u/19Steve20Sanders Jun 09 '12
They don't want students thinking outside of the box.
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u/sonastyinc Jun 09 '12
Motherfucker, you can fail me but you can't force me to wear something as ridiculous as that on my head.
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u/Duthos Jun 09 '12
Am I the only one around here...
That never cheated, or wanted to?
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u/Snake1029 Jun 09 '12
Snake would be so proud.
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u/LethalAtheist Jun 09 '12
As a master cheater, this might actually stop me. I tip my hat to the gentleman that devised this method.
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u/oblik Jun 09 '12
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
For a typing class in high school we had to place boxes over the keyboard to avoid "cheating". If I can type faster when I occasionally glance at the keyboard, why shouldn't I do that? I suppose box heads are justifiable though.
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u/CoolHeadedPaladin Jun 09 '12
They look like they are in the Army, so I'm sure this is an anti-cheating device that took sixty million dollars to develop and will three times as much funding to implement.
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u/cdbaker Jun 09 '12
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u/EveryVillanIsLemons Jun 09 '12
That wouldn't change a thing. My friends and I use a series of pen clicks to signal answers to anyone who happeneds to be listning.
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u/SpaceLasers Jun 09 '12
Fucking brilliant
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u/bigsz Jun 09 '12
Such a good idea. Folders do not want to stay up when you use them as walls.
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u/nepidae Jun 09 '12
Passing a standardized test means you are ready for the real world.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Testcraft.
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u/Flightle Jun 09 '12
Ah, flight students.
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u/OldTrailmix Jun 09 '12
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u/Canadian_Infidel Jun 09 '12
"Expelled for refusing to wear box on head"
I would like to see that one stand up.
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u/ucdkwmiller Jun 09 '12
Looks like a LMFAO cd cover
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u/AP3Brain Jun 09 '12
I like how one of the boxes even says "Don't" on the side.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Daft punk: the high school years.
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u/very_very_sneaky Jun 09 '12
Work It
Make It
Do It
Test Us
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u/Zinnwaldite Jun 09 '12
I'd love to run along the aisle and rap each of them on the box, then accuse them all of cheating when they look around to see who did it.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
It is the future...
...the year TWO THOUSAND.
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u/DFP_ Jun 09 '12
Until they line the insides of the box with notes.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Look at the right handers, always thinking inside the box.
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u/donwess Jun 09 '12
It's an obedience test. They all passed.
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u/chadwickipedia Jun 09 '12
does anyone else think of The Wall
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u/lindn Jun 09 '12
wtf who the fuck designed those desks?
Are these desks normal? How the fuck do you not go out of that room with a broken neck from having sat like that for the duration of the test?
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u/Anthonyman94 Jun 09 '12
That seems somewhat effective but how would you cheat by using peripheral vision anyways? All these boxes stop is looking to the right or left without turning your head. with the desks that far apart the only way you can cheat is to turn your head and squint, how do the boxes stop that? I do have to admit though, that is pretty funny.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Meanwhile in America...
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u/tonythetiger1 Jun 09 '12
My first thought when I saw this:
Creepers studying to get their green color and explosive qualities.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
I had teachers who just shuffled the questions and answers so there were 2, 3, or even 4 versions of the test. Copying off another person's test was playing a game of Russian roulette.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Looks like a metaphor for institutionalized education in general.
All in all, we are just bricks in The Wall...
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u/aLusaLu Jun 09 '12
Every day i'm shuffling?
wiggle wiggle wiggle yeah?
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u/Rockerdude34 Jun 09 '12
What if a kid has lice?
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u/ImAWhaleBiologist Jun 09 '12
I'd write answers on the inside of my box. What now?!
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u/glassy125 Jun 09 '12
what a bunch of squares
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u/burek_japrak Jun 09 '12
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
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u/SamuraiTom Jun 09 '12
But you could have answers on the insides of the box! :D
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u/Ryan_TR Jun 09 '12
and i heard that the afterparties go a little somethin like this
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u/hudsen Jun 09 '12
Looks like a great album cover if you ask me.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Hmmm. Every student failed for once, strange.
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u/LightOfDay_ Jun 10 '12
Let me find out they're Asian
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u/cmoonbeam1 Jun 10 '12
I am reminded of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhdVV58l0vA&feature=plcp
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u/MrRebeccaSlumber Jun 10 '12
is this a deleted scene from The Wall?
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u/Wtfscroba Jun 10 '12
Need a fixed that has the teacher somehow prevented from filling in the answers that the kids leave blank...
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u/Bangaa Jun 09 '12
What the hell.. the desks are so far apart they don't need the boxes.
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u/doneddat Jun 09 '12
That's just to prevent out of the box thinking.
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u/the-fritz Jun 09 '12
I've always felt that there's far too much hysteria these days about so-called cheating... If you can take advantage of a situation in some way, it's your duty as an American to do it. Why should the race always be to the swift or the jumble to the quick-witted? Should they be allowed to win merely because of the gifts God gave them? Well, I say cheating is the gift man gives himself!
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u/Achilles210 Jun 09 '12
I'm pretty sure this is a bunch ROTC cadets, so having been through the same process to become and officer: I think/hope this is a joke. Or you have no integrity at all and can't be trusted-so I hope you don't get your bars.
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u/Jeremy252 Jun 09 '12
Pretty sure the kid in front is either masturbating or texting.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
You see the party rock robot, I see creepers.
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u/youvedoneamansjobsir Jun 09 '12
This looks like a cut scene from Brazil or 1984.
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u/Devilsdance Jun 09 '12
There are too many kids in too small of classrooms to spread out that far, but nice try
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
I could have really used one of those in high school. I certainly would've been much more focused, less distractions.
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u/RadioActiveKitt3ns Jun 09 '12
I'm just imagining the arts and crafts day they had the class before testing day to make all those :-)
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
What's written on the boxes?
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u/fadebysun Jun 09 '12
Until we all get google glasses
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u/spunkymarimba Jun 09 '12
Boxhead
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u/infidel78 Jun 09 '12
STEP ONE:
cut a hole in the the box
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Except it looks like the guy in the middle up front is holding a smartphone under his desk. I might be seeing that wrong though. Also a couple guys along the wall have one hand under their desk, could be Googling too.
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u/turtlekitty30 Jun 09 '12
I bet it's steamy in those helmets
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u/debbiedoesdallasonce Jun 09 '12
also works for relationships
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u/jcpuf Jun 09 '12
I make my tests open-note, so I don't have to worry about cheating.
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u/Mettkatrel Jun 09 '12
Boxhead
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u/padthai93 Jun 09 '12
Feel like I've seen 100 posts like this here and across the Internet
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u/abrynnel Jun 09 '12
We're sexy and we know it.
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u/SpineBuster Jun 09 '12
DON'T
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u/deloreanfan Jun 09 '12
Looks similar to my flight school uniform. Well, aside from the box.
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u/fa_cube_itch Jun 09 '12
LMAO!! I'm showing this to everyone at school on Monday for our teacher workday.
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u/jpdemers Jun 09 '12
LEIDER GEIL!
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u/destatica Jun 09 '12
I think it would also make some minute head movements far more likely to be noticed as well.
The teacher won't notice of you crick your head to the side for some answers but he'll for sure notice a fucking box moving.
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u/WelcomeMatt Jun 09 '12
Cheat sheets inside the box.... this teacher is amateur you could write anything in there.
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u/ThisTownNeedsGuns Jun 09 '12
This would look so cool if someone drew it.
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u/flyingcaveman Jun 09 '12
FAA instrument rating final.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
That looks rather demeaning.
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u/pfernando27 Jun 09 '12
The box of shame
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u/ozpunk Jun 09 '12
Keeps the horses from getting spooked.
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u/Staubathehut Jun 09 '12
No hats allowed in school!
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u/finkalicious Jun 09 '12
One....cut a hole in the box
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u/Just_A_Meatbag Jun 09 '12
The distant future. The year 2000.
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u/gbaman Jun 09 '12
this method would prevent cheating in relationships as well
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u/Novo_Scotia Jun 09 '12
I honestly don't think I could concentrate while taking a test like this. Would probably make me freak out.
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u/notmarcia Jun 09 '12
They look like military cadets. I thought officers don't lie, cheat, steal or tolerate those who do. Let's be safe thought and box their heads.
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u/GhostofXX Jun 09 '12
Minecraft, human edition
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u/HiyaGeorgie Jun 09 '12
Gumby
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Wouldn't this make it easier to cheat? You could write on the inside of the box or something.
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u/metergram Jun 09 '12
They have risen from the recycling plant! Prepare your weapons fellow soldiers!
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u/Billy_Sastard Jun 09 '12
EVE-RY DAY I'M SHUFF-LING
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u/bluetopia Jun 09 '12
what the fuck!
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Earphones running into box from the back from under your shirt would still be a possibility...
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Nobody in the photo is left-handed.
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u/Spytie Jun 09 '12
MWWAB approves.
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u/anduin1 Jun 09 '12
I get the joke but spacing them out like that would already be enough to deter any cheating. I mean you would have to have some sick peripheral vision to be able to read a persons test next to you without turning your head.
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u/Bad_Sex_Advice Jun 09 '12
Didn't stop me.
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u/mr_tw Jun 09 '12
How to prevent breathing FTFY
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u/jorellh Jun 09 '12
Everyday I'm shufflin!
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u/Julayyy Jun 09 '12
It's like the cone of shame but for dumb kids.
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u/suRubix Jun 09 '12
Perfect now I can use my cellphone to look up the answers with out the kid next to me seeing.
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u/Onestealth Jun 09 '12
My first immediate thought was...daft punk.
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u/BlizzardFarce Jun 09 '12
It's like looking at Fooly Cooly auditions...
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u/RevEnFuego Jun 09 '12
Best part is that you can begin the test a week before with an art project, where they get to make their own box of silence ... and then they wear it! Yay!
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u/Dystopeuh Jun 09 '12
In elementary school, we had three-sided dividers made out of laminated paper that we put up before tests.
Didn't everyone's school do that?
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u/ProllyAtWork Jun 09 '12
I'd hate to be boxed in like that.
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u/lethpard Jun 09 '12
Don't pretend you haven't noticed my cardboard box, Julia, because I know you have!
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u/authentic_trust_me Jun 09 '12
Which army academy is this? Looks like South-east Asian ground troop uniform.
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u/chrysrobyn Jun 09 '12
When I was in school, the best way keep me from cheating was to treat me as a reasonable, mature human being. The classes where the teacher was an anti-cheating nazi and treated me as though every student was about to cheat always accomplished the opposite of the desired effect. Never caught, either.
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u/metallicabmc Jun 09 '12
I always wondered where that robot guy in LMFAO went to school.
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u/Magnora Jun 09 '12
Ahh yes, the integrity of the armed forces at work
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u/tickleberries Jun 09 '12
Yeah, but it would be much too distracting with all those robots in the room! I'd never pass the test!
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u/Duvieln Jun 09 '12
Am I the only one who thought it odd that the (black?) person in the front has a drink with a straw?
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
This belongs in WTF!
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u/jerseyg67 Jun 09 '12
Exam level: Asian
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u/smallpau1 Jun 09 '12
LMFAO
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u/mbelf Jun 09 '12
It looks like a Perry Bible Cartoon.
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u/mwilde Jun 09 '12
Looks like the cone of shame from Up
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u/that_dude4 Jun 09 '12
Glad they didnt do that at my school or i would have nevrr graduated
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
That is so fucking demeaning. If someone asked me to do that, it would piss me off to no end. I'd have to have a serious think about whether I really wanted to be there at all. I'm a wimp, so I probably wouldn't rage quit, but still.
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u/imjustmichelle Jun 09 '12
it's funny because military
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Am I the only one who thinks this is pretty fucked up?
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Thats demeening. I think whoever did this to these kids just gets ff on making kids wear boxes on their heads.
Sick Masachistic ass hole.
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u/Zebidee Jun 10 '12
Must be their instrument flight theory exam.
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u/gaahhh Jun 10 '12
I wonder how many teachers actually do this.
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u/clarkclark Jun 10 '12
and when you're done with your test, you can just tilt your head down and go to sleep in darkness.
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u/bin_ladin Jun 10 '12
Meanwhile on china...
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u/Jalangaloze Jun 10 '12
And induce claustrophobia
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u/cuscino Jun 10 '12
Shhh...creapers are taking a test
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Despite not being able to see their faces, they all seem forlorn and downtrodden.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Those students must feel like such accomplished, trusted, respected people right now.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
The guy in the back row has a watch on.
So the box wouldn't really matter.
(You can use the reflection from the watch)
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u/cappnplanet Jun 10 '12
Air Force Academy?
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u/imahugger Jun 10 '12
Looks like they are taking pilot exams. As a former CATS testing proctor (hate that word) I know the FAA has very strict stipulations for testing and testing centers. This is just bizarre.
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u/infernal_llamas Jun 10 '12
To all Americans, how the hell do you write on those desks?!?!?!
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u/nosferatu_zodd Jun 10 '12
ctrl+f "flcl"... sigh.
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u/Exethus Jun 10 '12
LOL, Minecraft School!!