Shane just sent me an e-mail that reads:
Wear socks that rise a little above your shoe when you’re wearing them. Write answers where your sock covers your ankle. When you’re testing just put one leg over the other and act like you are scratching your leg or something and slide your sock down and get the answers.
I’m absolutely shocked to see that 7 out 10 people in the Philippines think the Presidential candidates cheated during the previous election back in 2004.
Wait, did I say “absolutely shocked?” I meant to say “not surprised at all”
The survey, which was conducted in December 2007 and commissioned by the Genuine Opposition, showed that 70 percent of the respondents believe there was cheating during the 2004 race to Malacañang, while 26 percent say none of the 2004 presidential candidates committed poll fraud in Mindanao.
The Pulse Asia survey indicated that 58 percent of the respondents believe that President Arroyo cheated in the Mindanao provinces during the 2004 presidential elections.
With all the violence that’s been going on in Kenya recently thanks to dispute over the latest election results, it’s easy to see how this is kinda serious. In many countries, illegitimate elections are the prime breeding ground for uprising and violence. Heck, even the illusion of rigged elections, even if they were legit, is enough to set some countries over the edge. Of course, we don’t have to worry about that here in America thanks to a combination of voter apathy! Zing!
Personally I think this method is pretty lame, as you’re going to need way too many pens. Plus, the white paper sticks out like a sore thumb against that dark blue pen. But what does a cheating expert like me know? Oh, wait…
Ever thought about how teachers and principals might cheat on tests themselves? Well Andrew Wolf certainly has and wonders aloud if we’re not already pushing them to do so. Sure, they’re not in school anymore or being quizzed on geometry, but there’s still some massive incentives for them to do as well as possible.
The real pressure is on the principals and teachers to “perform.”
A number of incentives for “performance” have been put on the table. Merit pay, which could reach as much as $50,000 a year for principals and $3,000 for teachers, is one. The possibility of the removal of the principal, the “closing” of the school, or unsatisfactory ratings for teachers, are among the possible consequences.
I once cheated on a test because I couldn’t remember the Spanish word for apple. Imagine how many people would cheat for $50,000.
I just found this video on Metacafe showing a cool way to use a pen to cheat on a test. It looks like this would be best suited for a vocabulary test or something that wouldn’t require much space to write down all the cheating tips. Though good luck if a professor or teacher walks by and sees this in your hand. The time it takes to wrap it back up is pathetically slow and thus, you’d be screwed.
Hey, college football fans out there, I have a question for you. Are you halfway competent and a fan of the Florida State Seminoles? Then you need to get your butt down to Tallahassee as soon as you can and teach them a little thing or two about being covert, because a giant chunk of the team just got caught cheating.
At least 20 Florida State football players will be suspended from playing against Kentucky in the Dec. 31 Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl, as well as the first three games of the 2008 season, for their roles in an academic cheating scandal involving an Internet-based course
Whoops! Next time, the FSU coaches might want to make sure they hire tutors who not only can take the tests for the football players (as was the case in this situation), but they also might want to consider not recruiting moronic football players! I went to college and passed all my class all while training, conditioning, and participating in a rigorous flag football league. It was league policy to chug at least two beers per game and these idiots couldn’t even get away with cheating in the comfort of their own home!
In a new earth shattering article that tells us tons of new information we didn’t already know pretty much what we already knew, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette tells us that the Internet is making it easy to cheat.
You know, I hear they have porn on the Internet too. And poker. I don’t know, maybe it’s just a myth.
When he assigned a paper on 20th century theater, Carnegie Mellon University assistant professor Michael Chemers was surprised at what a student submitted.
A sophomore turned in a paper on Antonin Artaud, a complex playwright and director the class had never discussed, written completely outside the skill level the student had shown in class.
So Dr. Chemers confronted the student. When the student stood by his paper, Dr. Chemers asked him to explain how he arrived at the thesis he wrote.
The student instead explained that he bought the paper online.
Not only can the student not cheat properly, but it looks like he can’t lie either. I hope “lawyer” wasn’t at the top of his career aspirations!
Are you one of the seven people in the world who are both huge nerds and jocks? Then you’ll absolutely love this story about how Gilbert Arenas cheats at Halo 3! In case you didn’t know, Gilbert Arenas is a player for the Washington Wizards NBA team and an avid Halo 3 player who sponsors a professional Halo team. Apparently groupies and millions of dollars aren’t enough to crave his wild side!
Wait, did I just say there are professional Halo teams? What the hell?! Ok, now I’m just pissed. You mean to tell me that people get paid to play video games? And here I though the only way to make money while doing hardly any real work at all was running a few websites…
Anyways, turns out he cheated. And by “cheated” I mean “nobody should really give a rat’s ass about this, but since many people have no lives, they do!” Gilbert even laughed and shrugged it off when it was brought to his attention that he’d been “caught.” Glad to see that at least one other person in this whole “scandal” saw it or what it truly was: Nothing.
[via With Leather]
Mexicans - doing that cheating that American’s don’t want to do!
After a humiliating defeat in Mexico’s presidential election last year, Roberto Madrazo appeared to be back on top: He’d won the men’s age-55 category in the Sept. 30 Berlin marathon with a surprising time of 2:41:12.
But Madrazo couldn’t leave his reputation for shady dealings in the dust. Race officials said Monday they disqualified him for apparently taking a short cut — an electronic tracking chip indicates he skipped two checkpoints in the race and would have needed superhuman speed to achieve his win.
Are people really so dumb to the point where they don’t think they’ll be caught cheating by an electronic chip in a marathon? And to make it even more obvious, he finished the race with a windbreaker and a hat, while also almost beating the world record. No wonder he didn’t get elected President of Mexico back in 2006. He probably thought elections followed golf rules and thus rigged the voting machines to give him negative votes.
A student from the University of York is on trial of 15 fraud charges after being caught while attempting to cheat on an exam.
Elnar Askerov of Azerbaijan, 22, and his French accomplice Jerome Drean, 34, were both arrested at the University on May 11 when it is alleged that Drean was caught impersonating Askerov in his final year Economics exam.
The pair, who bear little physical resemblance, appeared before York Magistrates’ Court on August 14, each facing 15 counts of fraud relating to the use of fake University identity cards. Neither defendant entered a plea at the hearing. The case has been adjourned until November 12.
Askerov is charged with six counts of possessing an ID card for the use of fraud, four counts of possessing a false ID card for use in fraud, and four charges of falsely claiming to be Drean. Drean faces five counts of using a false ID card to defraud the University, four counts of possessing an ID card for use in fraud and four counts of falsely claiming to be Askerov.
So let that be a lesson, folks. If you’re going to get somebody to take an exam for you, at least make sure they look a little bit like you.
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