Originally posted by: Minionite
Well I have a few favs, but first some context. I did a business undergrad. In that you have to take a few courses like business basics, economics, marketing, accounting, calculus, etc. These are all stories from those first year courses. Also because these were first year courses, the classes are usually huge - like 500 to 1000 people at a time. So for exams, the students are split up over 10 or 11 lecture halls. Each lecture hall is assigned a TA and an invigilator - one male, one female. So here are a few stories:
- This one person brought a plastic water bottle to an economics exam. Except instead of the regular label, they made their own - with all the answers. The way they got caught? I was walking by and the label seemed to be made of really good quality paper so I picked it up to check which company it was from and they got caught.
- Our lecture halls are theatre style. So to combat cheating, our professors would have 2 or 3 versions of the exams. Basically the same questions but in a different order and with slightly different details. Like if it was an accounting question, the numbers might be interchanged. These two friends sat behind one another in a beginner business course. The one behind copied the guy in front. How they got caught? Each TA got the exams of their lecture hall to mark so I was going through their exams. The front friend was fine, but the back friend copied an accounting answer into a marketing question and an economics answer into the finance one and so on. And he forgot to change the small differences.
- Ooh better yet this one idiot decided to fill his reusable bottle with chits instead of water. As part of our due diligence, we go around the lecture hall checking every person's ID and marking it off against a list. As I passed this person, I accidentally knocked their water bottle over and I didn't hear the water inside. So I opened it and saw the chits.
- My personal fav is the one guy who used invisible ink. Apparently if you write with lemon juice, it basically comes across as invisible. For the calculus exam, everyone is allowed to bring one 8x11 sheet, one sided with formulas on it. This smarty used the other side to write in invisible ink. He sat in the very back where the lights are and at one point he held up his paper to the light....thinking that no one was looking. My invigilation partner noticed and pointed it out. I went up to check on the guy and there was the invisible ink all visible again.