“With 5 Minutes Left, I Grabbed A New Test”: Student Gets Revenge On Cheating Classmates
“Cheaters never prosper.” While there are unfortunately some people out there who are determined to prove this proverb wrong, it’s still a good message to live by. Because cheaters probably shouldn’t succeed.
One man who came up with a genius idea to make sure that his fellow classmates stopped cheating off of him recently shared his story on Reddit, so below, you’ll find all of the details of his petty revenge, as well as some of the replies invested readers have shared.
Despite knowing better, many students have no qualms about cheating in school
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But when this man realized that the same kids that were picking on him were also cheating off him, he decided to deter them from ever doing it again
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Cheating is extremely prevalent in academic settings
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There’s a bit of gray area surrounding what’s actually considered cheating nowadays. Is completing a homework assignment alongside your friends and checking answers with one another considered academic dishonesty? Are you allowed to consult your siblings who have taken the class in the past? But one thing’s for sure: sneaking a peek at a fellow classmate’s test is against the rules.
According to ProctorEdu, cheating, plagiarism and fabrication are all considered academic dishonesty, and unfortunately, they’re all more common than you might expect. A survey from CollegeHumor found that over 60% of students admitted to cheating on assignments and tests, and a questionnaire sent to Rutgers students reported that 68% of them admitted to breaking their university’s explicit anti-cheating rules.
But apparently, there’s often very little risk when it comes to cheating, so students aren’t even scared of getting caught. Over three quarters of students who cheat say that they picked up the bad habit in high school, and 90% are sure that they’ll never be caught red handed.
Academic dishonesty can result in serious consequences, but it’s frequently overlooked
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In theory, there would be serious consequences for students who are caught cheating. Punishments can range from being given a 0 on the assignment that the student was caught cheating on all the way to being expelled from their university. But as it turns out, it’s not often that students actually find themselves in the hot seat for academic dishonesty.
In fact, Open Education Database reports that the general public is more concerned about cheating than college officials are. One survey found that 41% of Americans and only 34% of college officials consider academic dishonesty to be a serious issue. When catching cheaters can result in bad press or drops in GPAs, universities might be less inclined to report these issues.
Top universities such as Harvard, Yale and Stanford have all addressed the fact that cheating is a prevalent issue among their students, but it’s a difficult problem to eradicate. When it comes to why students cheat, many feel pressure to perform well academically while trying to balance extracurriculars, and they might resort to cheating out of desperation. Others might see it as a victimless crime, if they’re sure they won’t get caught and everyone wins by having a good grade.
Gifted students are often targets of bullying among their peers
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In this particular story on Reddit, the man noted that he often got picked on for being an intelligent student, and unfortunately, that’s not an uncommon occurrence. Verywell Family explains that gifted students are often the targets of bullying because their behavior might stand out from the crowd and attract attention. Kids can be cruel, and sometimes being “average” is the safest thing a child can be.
Being picked on due to their academic abilities can have lasting effects on students, causing them to view their gifts as flaws or making them feel like they have to hide the fact that they’re excelling in school. They might even try to fit in or gain approval from others by allowing students to cheat off of them or lose interest in their schoolwork in an attempt to fade into the crowd.
Bullying and cheating are never acceptable, but schools are still working on ways to completely dissolve these issues. We would love to hear your thoughts on this brilliant petty revenge in the comments below, pandas, and then if you’re interested in checking out another Bored Panda article featuring revenge on cheaters, we recommend this piece next!
Amused readers applauded the man for his revenge and shared similar stories of their own experiences
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Not the one comment that says that the questions go from a-d and then has their nemesis picking IAMADUMBAA......
Bull. Even back in my school days (42 now) the bullies that cheated off me would've blamed me for their bad grade and beat the cr@p out of me. This sounds so badly made up, that its more like an episode of a feel-good sitcom.
So you think this is fake because *checks notes* his experience wasn’t yours?
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I was okay with it RIGHT up until they memorized the answers. If they told me they did a 50 question test in 5 minutes ... okay. 10 questions a minute, that's one question every six seconds. Possible. You memorized a 50 character sequence consisting of ABCD? Nah. Not buying it. Too, too easy to mess that up. I'm not buying this story.
In 2/3rd year, I had a final and the teacher used to scramble us (you get up, move there, you there). With my luck, I was left in the middle of a triangle of cheaters. Two of them were friends (F) and the third a cousin of one of them (he was a bit older, repeated 2 years IIRC). They weren't very sneaky asking questions to one another, asking me. I just ignored them, kept my mouth shut, stared at my sheet and filled in the exam. At some point the teacher got fed up, came, took our 4 exams and told we would get a zero for cheating. I told her I wasn't, and I could prove it. Asked her for an oral exam right there. She insisted I was cheating and I was holding my ground, told her I don't like my integrity attacked... She finally agreed. Left the rest of the class to finish and I waited seating at her desk, sent the other 3 to wait outside. My classmates were looking in from the classroom window in anticipation of what could happen. My friends knew I didn't/don't cheat, I honestly don't like it. Even told her the same, if I was entering a test expecting to fail, I would fail and own the grade. I felt the teacher was going to "teach me a lesson" not only asked questions from the exam, but new ones and I didn't have any trouble to answer any of them. (On mobile, just edited for clarity)
Just then, she realized what happened. She gave the same chance to the other 3 and asked them to come back in, exams in hand, and did the same. They couldn't answer correctly to anything. Afterwards I was bullied non-stop for being the "snitch" and always told them "I just got caught in the middle of you 3, I never told her that you were cheating, I was only defending myself, she wasn't stupid, 2 + 2 = 4. I studied hard and didn't deserved a zero for what, going down with you? I don't own you anything". I was/am the "nerd" type, I study hard and always try my best. If I did that and got an F, well, time to step up and study harder. They made my life hell for 3 more years, calling me names and whatever, but at least stopped trying cheating off me 🤷🏻♀️
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I was taking a statistics class in college that was mostly foreign students. The professor would leave the room after handing out tests and these guys would copy and pass papers around. I was also getting straight A's so they sat around me to copy my answers too. I told the professor about it and he said, "People don't cheat in my class". The final was worth 50% of your grade. When the time came, the prof, handed out the final and left the room. I took the test and wrote down wrong answers in the spaces provided and the right answer, off to the side. I waited until time was almost up and the prof to come back to class and then changed all my answers back. Walked up and handed it in. I didn't tell him what I did I just left. Next term, I ran into several of the foreign students on campus and they asked how I did. I told them I got an "A". It seems they all failed. What a surprise.
This specific scenario sounds implausible but, unfortunately, it does sound familiar in that there are many students who simply refuse to learn and try their hardest to get around learning by cheating off those who actually do the work. Even worse, there are many who excuse intentionally not learning by making excuses: “But this is boring; I’ll never use this; the teacher doesn’t like me; I’m just not good at this!” Who cares? Society is making a HUGE investment in you and you have an obligation to learn (and retain it) whether it’s exciting or not, whether you (a child) sees value in it or not or if you think you have “talent” for it or not.
I did something like this once. A girl who sat next to me kept copying me, so I put all wrong answers on a quiz, paused to "check my answers" as she got up and triumphantly turned in the quiz first! -- and I erased all my answers and put in the correct ones. She was EXTREMELY confused when our graded papers came back...
History might have been a strong point...but not logic or maths, if it was worth 30% and "the stakes could not have been higher" - well, it could have been worth 40%, 50% etc etc...
Not the one comment that says that the questions go from a-d and then has their nemesis picking IAMADUMBAA......
Bull. Even back in my school days (42 now) the bullies that cheated off me would've blamed me for their bad grade and beat the cr@p out of me. This sounds so badly made up, that its more like an episode of a feel-good sitcom.
So you think this is fake because *checks notes* his experience wasn’t yours?
Load More Replies... I was okay with it RIGHT up until they memorized the answers. If they told me they did a 50 question test in 5 minutes ... okay. 10 questions a minute, that's one question every six seconds. Possible. You memorized a 50 character sequence consisting of ABCD? Nah. Not buying it. Too, too easy to mess that up. I'm not buying this story.
In 2/3rd year, I had a final and the teacher used to scramble us (you get up, move there, you there). With my luck, I was left in the middle of a triangle of cheaters. Two of them were friends (F) and the third a cousin of one of them (he was a bit older, repeated 2 years IIRC). They weren't very sneaky asking questions to one another, asking me. I just ignored them, kept my mouth shut, stared at my sheet and filled in the exam. At some point the teacher got fed up, came, took our 4 exams and told we would get a zero for cheating. I told her I wasn't, and I could prove it. Asked her for an oral exam right there. She insisted I was cheating and I was holding my ground, told her I don't like my integrity attacked... She finally agreed. Left the rest of the class to finish and I waited seating at her desk, sent the other 3 to wait outside. My classmates were looking in from the classroom window in anticipation of what could happen. My friends knew I didn't/don't cheat, I honestly don't like it. Even told her the same, if I was entering a test expecting to fail, I would fail and own the grade. I felt the teacher was going to "teach me a lesson" not only asked questions from the exam, but new ones and I didn't have any trouble to answer any of them. (On mobile, just edited for clarity)
Just then, she realized what happened. She gave the same chance to the other 3 and asked them to come back in, exams in hand, and did the same. They couldn't answer correctly to anything. Afterwards I was bullied non-stop for being the "snitch" and always told them "I just got caught in the middle of you 3, I never told her that you were cheating, I was only defending myself, she wasn't stupid, 2 + 2 = 4. I studied hard and didn't deserved a zero for what, going down with you? I don't own you anything". I was/am the "nerd" type, I study hard and always try my best. If I did that and got an F, well, time to step up and study harder. They made my life hell for 3 more years, calling me names and whatever, but at least stopped trying cheating off me 🤷🏻♀️
Load More Replies... I was taking a statistics class in college that was mostly foreign students. The professor would leave the room after handing out tests and these guys would copy and pass papers around. I was also getting straight A's so they sat around me to copy my answers too. I told the professor about it and he said, "People don't cheat in my class". The final was worth 50% of your grade. When the time came, the prof, handed out the final and left the room. I took the test and wrote down wrong answers in the spaces provided and the right answer, off to the side. I waited until time was almost up and the prof to come back to class and then changed all my answers back. Walked up and handed it in. I didn't tell him what I did I just left. Next term, I ran into several of the foreign students on campus and they asked how I did. I told them I got an "A". It seems they all failed. What a surprise.
This specific scenario sounds implausible but, unfortunately, it does sound familiar in that there are many students who simply refuse to learn and try their hardest to get around learning by cheating off those who actually do the work. Even worse, there are many who excuse intentionally not learning by making excuses: “But this is boring; I’ll never use this; the teacher doesn’t like me; I’m just not good at this!” Who cares? Society is making a HUGE investment in you and you have an obligation to learn (and retain it) whether it’s exciting or not, whether you (a child) sees value in it or not or if you think you have “talent” for it or not.
I did something like this once. A girl who sat next to me kept copying me, so I put all wrong answers on a quiz, paused to "check my answers" as she got up and triumphantly turned in the quiz first! -- and I erased all my answers and put in the correct ones. She was EXTREMELY confused when our graded papers came back...
History might have been a strong point...but not logic or maths, if it was worth 30% and "the stakes could not have been higher" - well, it could have been worth 40%, 50% etc etc...
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