Anybody caught cheating???

whassupp2 · 10-08-2006 11:38pm #1

Just wonderin was anybody brought in to explain similarities in papers or for being caught copying????
I know that in LCVP and Construction alot of people are called back......and this year theres likely to be more with Geography and History projects.
Or was anybody asked to stop talking during exams or anythin????

eamoss · 10-08-2006 11:47pm

One on my mates had all the planning notes for construction on his right arm but he didnt get caught. Did planning come up? I cant remember!

I knew one or two other ppl who had stuff written on their arms they also didnt get caught.

Other than that I dont think anyone else cheated to my knowledge

As for my geog field study I wouldnt be surprised if all of my class lost 20% because everyone in my class had the same field study as such.

whassupp2 · 10-08-2006 11:50pm

eamoss wrote:

One on my mates had all the planning notes for construction on his right arm but he didnt get caught. Did planning come up? I cant remember!

Neither can I actually!!!!!:D

On another note, Construction has to have been the exam i was most disappointed with.

eamoss · 10-08-2006 11:57pm

Mine wud be Tech Drawing I messed up the paper when I could have done very well in it. I was very temped to go to the "toilet" and somehow pick up my solutions book without anyone seeing me but then I stopped dream and knew I wudnt be able 2 do it without anyone seeing me!

One the lads in my construction class had his bag right beside him open & the examiner didn’t say anything to him but he wasn’t cheating he just forgot 2 put it away.

Kwekubo · 11-08-2006 1:36am

whassupp2 wrote:

Neither can I actually!!!!!:D

On another note, Construction has to have been the exam i was most disappointed with.

You should have seen my Maths paper two... luckily I have seven other subjects to pick from...

Oh, and planning was half a question this year, I still have the paper sitting beside me on my desk! (Note to self: stop thinking about the bloody leaving cert)

Tar.Aldarion · 11-08-2006 1:39am

Two of my brothers cheated like ****, weren't caught though.

deisedolly · 11-08-2006 6:40pm

I noticed that I always had the chance to run out to my locker when the student outside came in and took the tray of tea and biscuits back from the examiner and brought them somewhere to wash them!
I went out a few times when there was no student outside to bring me to the bathroom! I could've cheated but I'm a good girl... and a chicken sh*t!

Le Rack · 11-08-2006 9:50pm

I gave my spare maths set to a friend, and was just cleaning out me bag last week and found a bunch of notes inside it! Nothing happened with her but I did see a couple of papers going into the red envelopes....

spurious · 12-08-2006 8:41pm

The red envelopes don't have anything to do with suspected cheating.

NADA · 12-08-2006 9:55pm

I could have cherated too I went the toilet and there was a fella there doing the same accounitning paper as me. We could have swopped answers but didn't bother.

Le Rack · 13-08-2006 1:32pm

spurious wrote:

The red envelopes don't have anything to do with suspected cheating.

ah right, was always told the cheater papers went into the red envelopes...

NADA · 13-08-2006 4:27pm

Le Rack wrote:

ah right, was always told the cheater papers went into the red envelopes...

No because I think all of mine were put into red envelopes.

spurious · 13-08-2006 5:41pm

Suspected cheating would be mentioned in either:

(a) The Superintendent's report, where he/she has to draw a map of where everyone was sitting and note any 'unusual' activity, visitors to the room, trips to the toilet etc.

or

(b) The Assistant Examiner must report 'unusual' scripts to their Advising Examiner. This would include identical answers, apparently completely different handwriting, answers so off the point that they seem to be for a different question, etc.

The first thing the candidates involved would know is when their results are withheld.

The red envelopes are for candidates with 'reasonable accommodations' or special arrangements of one sort or another.

sully-gormo · 13-08-2006 7:21pm

It is actually suprisingly easy to cheat in the LC. Just go to the Toilet and take some notes out of the pocket, or arrange to meet someone in the toilet. Unless you do the cheating inside the exam centre, its unlikely ul get caught(Supervisors cant leave durin the exam)

smemon · 14-08-2006 3:38pm

yes, it's easy to cheat.

havn't lowered myself to do it in an exam though. but you could:

-place cheat notes in a toilet roll in a certain cubicle
-write on your arm as mentioned earlier
-store notes in your phone either on the phone memory or slip a sheet under the back cover... Then whip out the phone when at the toilet.
-scan a bottle label, keep the logo and re-write the ingredients as cheat notes, then stick back on bottle....
-arrange coughing, hand gesture, posture between friends as coded language.

it's easy if you think about it. Most people are too lazy to think of that stuff though

Steak · 14-08-2006 3:50pm

smemon wrote:

-scan a bottle label, keep the logo and re-write the ingredients as cheat notes, then stick back on bottle....

suppose it could work but way too much effort!

spurious · 14-08-2006 3:58pm

Of course cheating is easy. It's also easy enough walk into Dunnes' and walk out without paying for stuff.

It's a question of the standards by which you choose to live your life.

XchampagneX · 14-08-2006 6:35pm

A guy in my year cheated through every single exam. He wrote out everything he thought he needed to know in his phone and was constantly checking it. Really surprised he wasn't caught because everyone but the supervisor knew what he was doing

sully-gormo · 14-08-2006 6:55pm

I'd never cheat in any exam except the leaving cert. its the only one that matters. If u do it in any of the others ur only really fooling urself. If I knew how easy it is i might have chanced it in History. The reason most people dont do it is because the penalties are SO severe if u get caught. Ure so fcked if ur caught

Garret · 14-08-2006 6:56pm

smemon wrote:

yes, it's easy to cheat.

havn't lowered myself to do it in an exam though. but you could:

-place cheat notes in a toilet roll in a certain cubicle
-write on your arm as mentioned earlier
-store notes in your phone either on the phone memory or slip a sheet under the back cover... Then whip out the phone when at the toilet.
-scan a bottle label, keep the logo and re-write the ingredients as cheat notes, then stick back on bottle....
-arrange coughing, hand gesture, posture between friends as coded language.

it's easy if you think about it. Most people are too lazy to think of that stuff though

or just tape loads of notes to your back and read them in the jacks

or ask the guy in front of you/behind/beside you for answers

get a big pencil case and write on it, thats what my mate did since 1st year for every exam. You'd be surprised how much writing it could take

Shrimp · 14-08-2006 7:04pm

smemon wrote:

yes, it's easy to cheat.

havn't lowered myself to do it in an exam though. but you could:

-place cheat notes in a toilet roll in a certain cubicle
-write on your arm as mentioned earlier
-store notes in your phone either on the phone memory or slip a sheet under the back cover... Then whip out the phone when at the toilet.
-scan a bottle label, keep the logo and re-write the ingredients as cheat notes, then stick back on bottle....
-arrange coughing, hand gesture, posture between friends as coded language.

it's easy if you think about it. Most people are too lazy to think of that stuff though

put them on your site..

youcancallmeal · 14-08-2006 7:05pm

I wonder if you could tattoo loads of physics formulas or something all over your hands and then when they ask you to wash your hands just tell them they are tattoos? Or even use cryptic tattoos ala Prison Break?

NADA · 14-08-2006 7:21pm

Garret wrote:

or just tape loads of notes to your back and read them in the jacks

or ask the guy in front of you/behind/beside you for answers

get a big pencil case and write on it, thats what my mate did since 1st year for every exam. You'd be surprised how much writing it could take

Where would you be without Steven Gibbons. I would be shcoked if he didn"t do that during the Leaving seen as he did do it as you say in every single test.

Garret · 14-08-2006 7:26pm

NADA wrote:

Where would you be without Steven Gibbons. I would be shcoked if he didn"t do that during the Leaving seen as he did do it as you say in every single test.

he wrote out a load of physics formulae

none of them came up:D

Rob30888 · 14-08-2006 9:07pm

Nothing would piss me off more than seeing someone cheat in the LC. Why the **** should we work our asses off studying and they can get away with that? It'd be even more frustrating if they're going for a place on the course you're applying for as they'll be getting higher points and thus bumping up the amount required.

EdgarAllenPoo · 15-08-2006 6:56am

They work their ass off and then cheat as a backup, I did. The only subjects I was ever good at were english and history, I cheated in a subject and it meant the difference between passing and failing, at the end of the day the only person that knew was me and since I benefitted I didn't care. At the end of the day you do what you have to. Having very few morals does help too. Wish I'd done it in the rest of my subjects.