Cheating in the Leaving Cert???

Xhristy

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bUILDERtHEbOB

I was an assistant last year, we found some books left in the toilet, so we picked them up and sold them in a second hand bookshop for €20.:p Serves them right for trying to cheat I say.

teckoda

Hahahah, thats pretty funny. I was thinking of ideas of how it would be possible to cheat. There are many ways in fact, which would probably go unnoticed.

GERMAN ROCKS

how much do u get paid for being an assistant

ANarcho-Munk

Personally I don't see anything morally wrong with cheating in the Leaving Cert what so ever.

I'm not saying that the LC doesn't "work" but the whole logic behind it is completly flawed and it's just not right. I don't see the harm in cheating to get through it.

bUILDERtHEbOB

For doing the assistant job you get the grand sum of €5.81 an hour.

Kidd-o

@ ANarcho-Munk

Are you kidding? Do you think its fair that people cheat and get more points thus raising the national average and limiting places in colleges... where as honest joe soaps, work hard and dont cheat and end up suffering being 5 points off their course...

imho, i think its rediculous, sorry if this is harsh, but i maintain that if anyone cheats in there leaving and gets away with it, any degree they get is a farce, a joke...

heyjude

Kidd-o wrote: »

imho, i think its rediculous, sorry if this is harsh, but i maintain that if anyone cheats in there leaving and gets away with it, any degree they get is a farce, a joke...

Cheating is pretty widespread in university exams too and the examiners/supervisors are just as poor at noticing what is going on.

Furthermore, the people I know who were cheating, went on to get their degrees and whether these degrees are a farce or not, the cheats weren't caught and went on to get good jobs afterwards as a result.

It has certainly made me wonder about the value of any college/university qualification and to be more wary of taking them at face value.

Fad

GERMAN ROCKS wrote: »

how much do u get paid for being an assistant

i got about 420 i think

CASH!:)

pity it was spent in about a week

Xhristy

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Overheal

The cleverest I've seen was a girl that used her calculator: Used masking tape to cover the inside of the lid and used that space to write all her hard to recall maths equations and stuff.

I hate her for that >_>

spinandscribble

back at secondary school and in college they never let us bring in the back of the calculator

brendac

legend has it that a few years ago there was this supervisor in one of the exam halls in our school. Apparently he let the students bring their books in to study before the exam and then told them to put them under the desk when the exam was about to start. One of the students mistakenly put the answer books away with her books and so asked for another. When she got out she realised she had it so for the next exam she wrote **** loads of stuff in that answer book, with pencil I presume so she could get rid of it, bought it in with her and put the new answer book away with her books again. So she did the same thing for all the exams. Mad the stuff you can get away with if you have the nerve!
I myself think its definately not worth the risk

Peleus

simplest thing to do with no chance of getting caught:

write english essay/formulas down on your phone, save it as a text message. Turn off the start-up noise/tone on your phone and turn your phone off before the exam. then just go to the toilets, turn on your phone and read the text message. theres no way you could get caught, cos if they find your phone in the exam you can just say its off.

i'm not sure if they have some thing about bringing mobiles into the exams. but that would definately work. very handy for maths/physics formulae that are just impossible to remember.

oh and one more thing, do they have to let you out to use the toilets? cos in our school exams, you cant leave the use the toilet no matter how much you need to. do they have to let you out during the leaving or does it vary from school to school?

Bunnywabbit*

Well, I'm actually doing my leaving this year, and the amount of girls cheating was unbelivable! Now, whatever about the Pre's but I would not even chance it in the Leaving cert! :eek:

Although in a school in Cork, a girl was caught cheating.... had the answers written on her arms and her exams weren.t canceled.... :rolleyes:

Poxyshamrock

whats all this about going to the toilet?
when i was doing my JC we werent allowed to go to the toilets

Bunnywabbit*

Yeah thats a popular thing now.... we're allowed more than once in each exam... with an all girls school there's loadsa excuses... :rolleyes:

Killaqueen!!!

Haha yeah, they can't not let girls go the toilets

tolosenc

During my leaving last year, I went to the jax in the middle of each exam. Got to stretch my legs, to change the scenery, clearer air, a chance to chat with my friend who was one of the assistants. The invigilator, MARKS ON YOUR ANSWER BOOK that you left.

Regards cheating: A guy in my year covered his upper legs with relevant information, did as much of the exam that he could, a quick trip to the jacks, then finished it.

I had thought about it for Maths, being the only thing realistically between me and my #1. Then thought that this could be the case for someone else too, and if I cheated and they didn't, and I got in and they didn't, that would be really mean and quite ****. I didn't do it and got a B1. Moral of that story: If you've done the work, there's no need to cheat. If you haven't, don't wreck it for those who have.

Mint Sauce

done my GCSEs and A-Levels before moving here, this was before mobiles and ipods (12 to 14 years ago), for both subjects you were only allowed a few pens, pencils, ruler, rubber etc, no pencil cases or calclator cases, had to leave your blaziers out side, so no deep pockets. for a three hour exam, no leaving to go to the toilet in the first hour or last half hour

during the GCSEs, we had one particlar teacher who could hardly control a class of 20, when she was left in an exam hall with 30 to 40 on her own for about 5 minutes when the othr teacher escorted a studet to the toilet, a few took full advantage, and were openly talking, and a few even discusssing the questions

during the A-levels, you could wear your own clothes, with reports of answered concealed in clothing, on the under side of baseball cap peaks, etc, the same as above for staionary