30 Times Students Figured Out A Way To Outsmart Their Teachers And Not Do Their Homework

Homework should be unnecessary. Finnish school children don't get homework and they always test out on the top compared to American kids. There is so much we should learn from other cultures when they do things better.

Or maybe, you are the one with the scattered brain?

I feel sorry for the other student whose report she may have graded and assumed it was OPs.

Only the real grade was an "F", as the teacher knew of the lie.

That happened to me in English class, I never submitted half of my assignments due during quarantine, and I got an A for all of them

I did something similar in the 3rd grade. But I pretended I had a book about Michael Jackson. There WERE books about him - I just didn't have one. :) (I was obsessed and I think my teacher was tired of hearing about him) So I convinced my neighbor to bring in her book and I then showed it to my teacher. She apologized for doubting me. I was such a little s**t!

I did a book report on a strategy guide for Final Fantasy VI (my all time favorite video game and I know it like the back of my hand). Got an A+ for adding drawings of my favorite characters.

Once a friend "quoted" me, using my pen name, in his literature essay (high school). Several times. The teacher never asked who were this "writer".

Just one question: Was the book fiction, or non-fiction?

I did that in an exam, on the part where we had to talk about a book we studied in class I just made up the title, the author, the plot points etc, just made up a story about WW2 surrounding events I find fascinating from history. Only did it after someone pointed out that the teacher that grades the exams isn't the same teacher that taught the class, or even from that same school, so they would have no idea what book we were assigned. There was also a multiple choice section, worth 20%, I didn't even read the questions, just filled in the B's and C's in alternating fashion. 3hr exam and I was walking out the door in under an hour with a passing grade. I'm both impressed with myself and think I was dumb, but oh well, can't change the past.

You must be smart Jen, because I have yet to meet a boss, coworker or teacher who isn't fooled by this.

It'd be smarter to change the extension of a large image (PNG, TIFF, etc) or something like a video or ebook to "txt", then copy and paste all of the characters that come up into a word document and save it as your report. You could then say that it was formatted properly on your computer, and your teacher will likely be more willing to believe it's a tech glitch than the blank file trick. The blank file is an absence of characters, which means nothing was written, whereas a bunch of gobblyguck at least implies there was SOME content.

Much better if you change the file extension to something completely diferent, they will get an error opening the file. And the email transport could be blamed for that..

Gotta send a file that's actually corrupted.

well thanks for ruining that trick

I want every teacher to be like this :0 (Let me step out of the Camilo avatar real quick) My teacher is strict as hëll. She says "Turn it in WITHIN THE HOUR i taught it." Like, what?

Any time a student is honest with me I just let them do it later. Teaching them to honestly talk to people when they need help is a bit more important to me than teaching them about deadlines.

I was in stats and the instructor was always super.understanding. all the exams got moved a week ahead or behind when students said they had exams in other classes, multiple people turned stuff in late because they had work/way worse classes/family matters/etc, and she would give them time. Like...she was a real human. She understood the students didn't just have her class and that was it. As long as you showed "yeah, I have half the report down, here it is, I just haven't gotten to the other half for one reason or another", she gave you more time. Her deadlines were more guidelines than set in stone and gotdang if I don't miss her class every time I take a class.

we need more teachers like this

I told my professor in an evening class that I had gone to happy hour before class and was too drunk to finish my assignment. He laughed, thanked me for being honest, and let me turn it in the following week.

*Sharpens fillet knife* “finally! A use for those people I kidnapped!”

I remember a classmate who turned his final history paper in when on middle school on open grocery bags after the teacher said she’d accept it written on anything. And he got an A with it!

I can do math in my head...but on paper not so much...ADD perhaps? My younger brother and his son same thing...we were all accused of cheating. 🤯

Awesome

And the teacher ate it apparently

The word count should only be an approximate anyway. A good essay will only get worse if you try to force more to it. (Though if it really is a good essay it usually won't be too short. Making it too long is more likely when you have a lot to say.)

Everyone knows this trick - even the teachers.

or the triple spaces or the 1.75 spacing

just add more adjectives