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- xOutlawx, on 10/12/2007, -7/+254Here's the article for those who don't want to register or deal with BugMeNot
Colleges Chase as Cheats Shift to Higher Tech
By JONATHAN D. GLATER
LOS ANGELES — At the University of California at Los Angeles, a student loaded his class notes into a handheld e-mail device and tried to read them during an exam; a classmate turned him in. At the journalism school at San Jose State University, students were caught using spell check on their laptops when part of the exam was designed to test their ability to spell.
And at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, after students photographed test questions with their cellphone cameras, transmitted them to classmates outside the exam room and got the answers back in text messages, the university put in place a new proctoring system.
"If they'd spend as much time studying," said an exasperated Ron Yasbin, dean of the College of Sciences at U.N.L.V., "they'd all be A students."
With their arsenal of electronic gadgets, students these days find it easier to cheat. And so, faced with an array of inventive techniques in recent years, college officials find themselves in a new game of cat and mouse, trying to outwit would-be cheats this exam season with a range of strategies — cutting off Internet access from laptops, demanding the surrender of cellphones before tests or simply requiring that exams be taken the old-fashioned way, with pens and paper.
"It is kind of a hassle," said Ryan M. Dapremont, 21, who just finished his third year at Pepperdine University, and has had to take his exams on paper.
"My handwriting is so bad," he said. "Whenever I find myself having to write in a bluebook, I find my hand cramps up more, and I can't write as quickly."
Mr. Dapremont said technology had made cheating easier, but added that plagiarism in writing papers was probably a bigger problem because students can easily lift other people's writings off the Internet without attributing them.
Still, some students said they thought cheating these days was more a product of the mind-set, not the tools at hand.
"Some people put a premium on where they're going to go in the future, and all they're thinking about is graduate school and the next step," said Lindsay Nicholas, a third-year student at U.C.L.A. She added that pressure to succeed "sometimes clouds everything and makes people do things that they shouldn't do."
In a survey of nearly 62,000 undergraduates on 96 campuses over the past four years, two-thirds of the students admitted to cheating. The survey was conducted by Don McCabe, a Rutgers professor who has studied academic misconduct and helped found the Center for Academic Integrity at Duke.
David Callahan, author of "The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead" (Harcourt, 2004), suggested that students today feel more pressure to do well in order to get into graduate or professional school and secure a job.
"The rational incentives to cheat for college students have grown dramatically, even as the strength of character needed to resist those temptations has weakened somewhat," Mr. Callahan said.
Whatever the reasons for cheating, college officials say the battle against it is wearing them out.
Though Brian Carlisle, associate dean of students at U.C.L.A., said most students did not cheat, he spoke wearily about cases of academic dishonesty.
He told of the student who loaded his notes onto the Sidekick portable e-mail device last fall; students who have sought help from friends with such devices; students who have preprogrammed calculators with formulas. Some students have even deigned to use the traditional cheat sheet, he said.
"One of the things that we're going to be paying close attention to as time goes on is the use of iPods," Professor Carlisle added, pointing out that with a wireless earpiece, these would be hard to detect.
The telltale iPod headphone wire proved the downfall of a Pepperdine student a couple of years ago, after he had dictated his notes into the portable music player and tried to listen to them during an exam.
"I have taught for 30 years and each year something new comes on the scene," Sonia Sorrell, the professor who caught the student, said in an e-mail message.
At the Anderson School of Management at U.C.L.A., the building's wireless Internet hotspot is turned off during finals to thwart Internet access.
Richard Craig, a professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at San Jose State, who caught students using spell check last year, said that for tests, he arranged the classroom desks so that the students faced away from him but he could see their desktop screens.
"It was just a devilishly simple way to handle it," Professor Craig said.
At the University of Nevada, Professor Yasbin, the dean, was not the only one upset by the camera phone cheating episode there, which occurred in 2003; honest students were appalled, too. They suggested that they police one another, by being exam proctors.
"The students walk around the classroom, and if they see something suspicious, they report it," Professor Yasbin said.
Amanda M. Souza, a third-year undergraduate who heads the proctor program, said her classmates had decidedly mixed reactions to the student monitors.
"The ones that aren't cheating think it's a great idea, " she said. "You always see students who are really well prepared covering their papers. But the ones that aren't prepared, probably don't like us."
At Mercer County Community College in West Windsor, N.J., students must clear their calculators' memory and sometimes relinquish their cellphones before tests. At Brigham Young University, exams are given in a testing center, where electronic devices are generally banned.
In some classes at Butler University in Indianapolis, professors use software that allows them to observe the programs running on computers students are taking tests on. And some institutions even install cameras in rooms where tests are administered.
To take a final exam last week, Alyssa Soares, a third-year law student at U.C.L.A., had to switch on software that cut her laptop's Internet access, wireless capability and even the ability to read her own saved files. Her computer, effectively, became a glorified typewriter. Ms. Soares, 28, said she did not mind. "This is making sure everyone is on a level playing field," she said.
Several professors said they tried to write exams on which it was hard to cheat, posing questions that outside resources would not help answer. And at many institutions, officials said that they rely on campus honor codes.
Several professors said the most important thing was to teach students not to cheat in the first place.
Timothy Dodd, executive director of the Center for Academic Integrity, said creating a "nuclear deterrent" to cheating in class, and perhaps implying that it is acceptable elsewhere, "is antithetical to what we should be doing as educators." - catullus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37lead on the walls... that's a good idea
- ztpruit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20write on the inside label of the water bottle
- EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20SOLUTION: the professor paying attention. It's not like it hard to see someone snap a cell phone pic.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16I go to UNLV right now, and there is a lot of cheating there. On my MIS test, the teacher gave us "self tests" to prepare for the exam. They were pulled from a test bank of 600 questions. If you did enough self test, you would find the same answers on the final, which was online. So what happened? People would copy and past all the self test questions and answers into a word processor, and then hit ctr-f during the final and search for whatever answer they needed. And the teacher wondered how half the class had perfect exam scores. This occured in an INFORMATION SYSTEMS class mind you. You'd think the teacher would have though of it. *rolling eyes*
- kendawg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14baltakatei: Say that if you had the book in front of you during the test you could easily find the answer to the problem. In my opinion, THAT is why you go to college: to teach you the basics and show you HOW TO FIGURE out the other things. Later on in life if you need to figure something out, you will have all the necessary tools available, including a book on the subject. So if these kids knew what they were doing but just didn't want to memorize the whole book, that's not hurting their education. Perhaps their mind is capable of the test material but they don't feel it's necessary in real-life to have EVERYTHING memorized -- nobody does.
However, the more likely scenario is that they didn't know WTF they were doing. So yeah, that will hurt them in the long run. - ptricky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13That's not such an easy solution at larger schools where there are 300 students taking the test at a time.
- lendrick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12People are always ragging on "today's youth." If kids were really getting worse every generation, society would have descended into anarchy centuries ago.
Most people are fine. Some people are *****. In most of my classes, the teacher would leave the room during the exams (and occasionally stop in) and I never saw anyone doing anything suspicious. Someone probably cheated during that time, but it was never a particularly rampant problem... at least, no worse than it's always been.
There were some funny stories from TA's, though: At one point a couple years ago, someone turned in code for an assembly language lab that had an email header in the middle of it. - baltakatei, on 10/12/2007, -7/+18ccanni1028:What's the deal? Having to get yet another Firefox extension. :P
During exams at Stanford, there are no test proctors. They just come in every 30 minutes to write the time remaining on the board. Some people even listen to music on their iPods during tests. It's all Honor Code.
Who needs cheating anyway? You're at the University to optimize how you aquire and rehash information in your head. Tests are there to see if your mind is capable. - rouge606, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13it would be interesting to see the ways people could come up with to cheat using water :)
- xocomil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10My problem with cheating is that it will ultimately hurt me. I don't want to go to a doctor who cheated his way through medical school. What's to stop them from "cheating" in diagnosing a problem that I have? What if they don't know what that dangly thingy is called because they cheated on their med exams and 'no one in the real world needs to know that?' Eventually they will be caught and they won't be able to practice medicine, but do you want your son or daughter to be one of the cases against them?
Obviously, a doctor who cheated their way through school is extreme, but it could happen. I'm all for professors and students doing all they can to stop cheaters. If you can't hack it, maybe you should do something easier. It is lunacy to expect everyone to succeed at everything. You are not entitled to a profession because you always wanted to be that since you were 8 years old. The world needs janitors and garbage collectors too....
Saying that it is futile because someone will work harder to cheat is lame. That's like saying it isn't worth protecting your computer from viruses or spyware because the malware authors will only work harder to get their garbage on your computer.
I'm rambling because I was almost kicked out of college because a cheating lab partner stole my work from me. I'm all for coming down hard on them. - chriskzoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Here's the best part - the people cheating to get A's think that their grades actually matter in the real world. After going back to school for my doctorate (Pharmacy) after working in the real world for 4 years after my first degree I am perfectly content that my GPA is 3.1/4. While most students were pulling all nighters trying to memorize trivial chemical structures and pathways, I was networking to set myself up with a job upon graduation. Unless you are doing something like a residency after graduation, employers care much more about how you present yourself and articulate your ideas than if you got an A in some class.
- chickenlegs, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13It's too easy to cheat in certain classes that I took in College - I don't think I ever did. In any case,the scenario of using a cellphone and snapping a picture, and then waiting for a reply... Where in the world was the professor when that happened?
- hitman12131976, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I'm a teacher in high school. Math major, never cheated. Students in high school cheat like there was no tomorrow; it's almost expected. The thing is that when these students go to college, it's expected that they have matured and that they won't pull anything like that. I guess today's youth hasn't grown up yet.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Lead on the walls... Why not just not have the wifi access? sounds a lot cheaper to me.
I'm lucky in most of my college my instructors were like "In the real world you'll never not have a reference so go ahead and use whatever notes you think you need. What we care about is your ability to do it, not if you have every step meticulously memorized." - lnxaddct, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9While I see where you are coming from, and I personally don't cheat (I have no moral/ethical reasons against it, I just like a good challenge), but I never really understood why people got all fussy about cheating. As far as I'm concerned, I could care less about my GPA, I'm there to learn. If other people want to spend their money for a piece of paper rather than a piece of knowledge, then so be it... its those that really know their stuff that set themselves apart from the crowd anyway (regardless of their paper or gpa). But here is my real problem with people against cheating, in the real world you *can* go and look up things, you can go and find references, it doesn't matter what you know, it only matters that you know where to look (assuming you also understand some basic underlying concepts as well). I'm not saying we shouldn't memorize things, and there is definitely a minimum amount of things everyone should just know, but in the real world we work together, we work in teams, and we work with vast amounts of resources at our hands. The resources and concepts that we wind up using most often will get stuck in minds through repetition anyway. So I really never saw the problem with it, I think some people just throw a little hissy fit because they see it all as a competition, like whoever has the highest gpa is the best or something. (Note: I'm not biased against those with high GPAs, mine is high enough but I'm not going to start a pissing match over it. I'll note that I'm on the dean's list though, if that matters any)
- starmanjones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7to me... this is another place where the old and the new are butting heads... when the university system was created there were no libraries. you learned it and walked out the door naked. now its reversed. in the real world you have access to massive quantities of information and remembering is just not that important. knowing where to find the answer and using it is what's required. we should be rewarding people for finding ways to take tests and get the right answers. but we are still stuck in the days before books. still selecting for memorization. training for a madmax world not the real world.
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Yes, lead paint. Let's go back 30 years, and reraise that debacle of public health welfare.
- SuprCzr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7the inside label thing has been done at my uni... the water was even used to magnify it so that he could use a smaller font.
- MrFusion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I go to uni in Cardiff, UK, I'm doing my finals in Computer Science right now, revising Distributed Systems Technology as we speak. We do everything with pen and paper at single desks in large halls, people to our sides are doing different exams, all desks are ~1m apart and there are upwards of 6 staff walking around the 400 students taking the exams. We leave coats, bags, etc at the back of the halls. Clear pencil cases, Student Card, Calculators, and Dictionaries are the only things allowed on the table. The only way of cheating is by writing notes on the inside of ur eye lids, or cleverly sticking a sheet of notes on the guy in fronts tshirt.
If you are caught cheating ONCE then all exams past and present for that Uni degree become void. In my "high school" for A-Level it was all exams for that session, and GCSE it was just that exam. As the returns for good marks increased, as did the punishments for cheating.
Doing tests on Laptops seem like a beautiful solution to having to use pens, but the hassle with cheating is just not worth it. What happens when a machine crashes? Do you get to resit the exam, or do they guess the marks?
I cant understand why American colleges seem to think that its a reasonable idea to allow students to bring in Cellphones to exams, or iPods, or indeed anything permitting a level of Data Storage, our calculators get randomly checked for data while the staff watch us clear the machines memories.
Result? Not much cheating goes on that doesn't get caught, and no-one i know has ever tried.
Traditional methods may be slow and tedious, but they're better for all concerned when the gains for a good degree are worth as much as they are - devfactory, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Is it just me or are educational institutions so out of touch they don't understand the world of today?
Last time I checked very few people even remember all the trivia they are tested on in any educational institution.
Really, what are we preparing the next generation for -- a bunch of people who can give discourses of everything that they have read in the past? Does this truly model the real world of team collaboration?
This notion of sitting down and taking an exam is so far from real world reality it is sickening. Furthermore, it stymies creativity and original thinking into merely recounting what someone else said and how well your memory skills are.
The sooner an individual gives up this notion of learning everything and recalling it at the drop of a dime, and puts that effort into learning *how* to find answers to questions then using analytical skills to *apply* the wealth of information in this new age to their problem, the further off they will be.
Especially in the fields of technology this holds true. It is one thing to learn theorems by rote that change very slowly. It is entirely another to constantly try to stay on top of every new technology.
After having been in the computer industry since 1984, the sooner you realize you simply cannot learn *it all*, and *accept it*, and change your mindset to learning *how to find the answer* the better off you are going to be.
I keep thinking these institutions would figure that out and actually conform their educational practices to the real world, but stories like these just reinforce my belief that they will forever live in their "see how smart I am" world.
I have yet to see management care about how well you can show them "how smart you are", rather they tend to prefer how "quickly" you can get something accomplished.
If you get help from web site A, or theorem B, then cite it as a reference. If you deal in the world of Intellectual Propriety, then make sure you get authorization in advance.
Sorry for the rant, I just get sick of seeing all of these college kids coming into the real world thinking they are prepared, while they wallow in debt to repay an institution for the pleasure of having had some "see how much I know" stand there and measure them on how well they can record what they are being told.
Get an idea, google it, build on it, fix it, challenge it. Make the world a better place. - dhuck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7dude you can have dictionaries on your desk? that's insane. you can just write notes in the margins on random pages... easy and very hard to detect that kind of cheating.
i'm in college and yes, i've witness cheating constantly. written on the inside of water bottles, crib notes, writing on your self, writing notes on the table before the exam starts - that's pretty crafty. most of the cheating i've seen has been decidedly low tech, however - i've often thought of having another person in another room to text message and such... but that would never work out, just too much planning / don't have the money to pay someone or whatever.
full disclosure: i have cheated, i input formulas that i need to remember into my ti-89. whatever. i think a more important issue to be dealt with is all the people abusing adderall and other drugs as study aids, that stuff is *****. - p9s50W5k4GUD2c6, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The commentary for this post is MUCH better than the original story - some great commentary!!!
Most imaginative cheat story: I gave an on-line quiz for one of my CIS classes at a local college. I left the test on-line for my students so they could take it when convenient for them - open book.
I locked down the view source function on the web-page and then encrypted the script of the web-page so the answer key was not legible in view source (in the event they saved it offline). I thought I was being a bit paranoid - but I believe in sound security (or so I thought).
The next week, one of my students saunters into class and then tells me/everyone (with a grin) that he ran the script thru a decryption process at work just to verify his answers. I couldn't stop laughing at his audacity.
Try as you might, sometimes you just can't win.
Note: I eventually moved the scoring code as a server side include script. - WVUChrisF, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7This can easily be fixed if professors actually gave a damn and policed their classrooms. The problem I see all the time is the professors never pay attention to what goes on during an exam.
- venir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Umm like, this perhaps? Probably better than lead.
http://www.digg.com/search?search=paint+blocks+cell&submit=Submit - splammo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7The problem is it is hard to pay attention to 500 people all at once, even if you have and bunch of proctors helping. Cell phone's aren't the only way to cheat either. Lots of people will have a friend fill out 2 scantron forms and they just pretend to take the test and then turn in the other form. Or there's the always classic "cheat sheet" if you can print out notes or definitions or equations in 4 pt font you can sneak that into any large test. Every different type of test has numerous ways people can cheat on it. My university offers online courses, some of which have proctored exams, but even so you are still on a computer and can google answers or have a friend who took it earlier post the answers online after they finish. The point is cheating is almost unstoppable, the harder you make it to cheat the harder some people will try to cheat.
- Jadix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I go to the University of California: Santa Barbara. ALL of my tests are pencil and paper. Even my computer science courses. Its standard. Math classes dont allow calculators, because you can program them to do any question automatically.
As for those of you who think the professor should just "pay attention", it would NOT be hard to snap a picture of the exam in a classroom with 800+ students in it.
You can fight cheaters, but it can't be stopped entirely. Anyone with a small slip of paper can get away with it in a large class. No electronics required. - DrStranglove, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The reason a lot of non-cheaters hate cheaters is because it devalues all the time and effort they put into learning the subject. It brings non-cheaters grades down in any kind of moderated test.
lnxaddct
ability to use resources and such is what's tested with coursework (where plagiarism is rife), the point of an exam is often to make sure the person has the relevant knowledge and understanding themselves. - tiuk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5All my exams this past year were pencil and paper (except lab exams in CS courses, but the actual final exams for those classes were still pencil and paper). I've had horrible handwriting all my life, and it's cost me a lot of marks. My hand also cramps up after writing for any significant length of time, very painful. I don't go around bitching about it (except now, heh), but there are people out there who have a very hard time writing everything by hand.
- infamousjre, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5since when is pen & paper the old fashioned way to take an exam? i could never see any professor being naive enough to let students take exams any other way
- nymphetamine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5It really doesnt matter about the whole high tech thing. The teachers just gotta watch out for the cheaters. But then again, cell phones and everything else tech related is getting smaller and smaller.
- stian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4BugMeNot:
username: stupidideas
password: asdfghjkl
username: ballaballa
password: damndamn - microtopian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@ vertinox
hahaha fyi, TA's don't get extra credit.. they might get paid though.. but they don't get graded with an A B C D or F - dhuck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5i'd love to have a computer instead of a blue book, seriously. simple math:
i write 30-40 words per minute, max.
i type 100-110 words per minute.
the more you write, the more likely you are to hit on the correct answer and get a higher score. it's not simple whining, it's about getting the grade you think you are capable of.
and yes, i know you didn't have computers when you were a kid, blah blah blah, i don't care. we do now and we always will in the future, let's make use of them, at least. - RichMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I agree mostly, however, you aren't suppose to go to college simply to be hard-encoded with raw facts, you go to college so that you can exercise your mind and find new ways of thinking from those around you. Not only that, but to give you a certain respect of confidence for your future when you're handed that digree. Although, I may just be pulling this all this nonsense out my ass since I haven't yet been to college.
Anybody care to add? - Ssandman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6hmm, lead on the walls.great idea
becaue i jsut LOVE the thought of siting in a room for 6 hours knowing that im surronded by toxic materials thta i have to breathe..
your idea is a good one, jsut not very well thought out lol - Anth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Heh, UNLV - the professors suck and the only way to pass some classes is to be a genius (literally) or cheat. I can think of the electromagnetics class in the EE dept that it seems no one ever gets an A in. Bs are rare. Cs are what most students get, and thats after a huge curve.
- MrVisible, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I can't agree with you enough.
I'm back in school after a couple of decades out messing around in the real world, and I'm astonished at the hidebound conventions that constantly trump any rational approach to education.
The algebra teacher I had wouldn't allow calculators in her class. Not even simple, non-programmable calculators. Why? "You may not always have a calculator when you need one."
The chances of my not having a calculator available while simultaneously having a crushing need to do algebra are, (and I calculated this algebraically, on my shiny TI calculator) insanely infinitesimal. There's a calculator on the computer in front of me in class, a calculator on my Palm Pilot, one on my MobilePro and a scientific calculator in my book bag. I can pick up any of five models of calculator at my local dollar store, and the 24-hour Wal-Mart down the street has dozens.
This is what I call the 'Lost' educational rationale (formerly known as the Gilligan's Island Educational Rationale). The idea that, some day, we may be stranded on a desert island, away from all the technology our species has developed over millennia, in desperate need of some technical knowledge. And on that day, we'll be grateful that all our teachers modelled half their curricula as if they were living in the Stone Age. - Dohko_Xar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Cheaters Cheaters, pumpkin eaters!
- skatingrox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3In my high school they make you remove your hats :P
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8pen+paper+teachers paying attention-any electronic devices=no cheating.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4This thread is dotted with a lot of concrete thinking, which reflects the problems in education. People think "their school" is representative of schools; it probably isn't. Not every school has TAs in the first place, let alone TAs to proctor exams.
ALL of the issue of cheating falls on integrity. Technology isn't to blame. PEOPLE are to blame. Technology (see nuclear power for example) is amoral; it can be used for good or for bad. The society in which we live tells people that you can't do much without a college degree, which isn't true. College isn't for everyone, yet "everyone" goes to "get a job." Colleges are often criticized by business as "being worthless" and "these kids don't know anything." Sorry, unlike college basketball being the farm system for the NBA, colleges are not and should not be training grounds. There is a distinct difference between education and training.
Just stop cheating, people. It's pathetic.A teacher/professor SHOULDN'T have to watch you to make sure you aren't cheating. Your education is what YOU make of it. I love the idea of honor codes. They need to be more widespread and they need to be enforced. - Ramble, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6In the UK we don't have this problem, mobile phones are usually handed over immediately, and there are numerous teachers to check that. uniform is gnerally required for an exam, any electronic equipment found on you results in an immediate disqualification of that exam and possible future ones. You need to have all your pens and such either in a clear bag or out on the desk.
Even water isn't allowed on the desk. - MrEcho, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I'm going to ITT-Tech right now. There is 2 major problems right now that we the students are dealing with.
One being that some of the teaches don't really teach or a really bad job of teaching the subject. If you can even understand them. No joke.
Two is that the Final that we take IS NOT based off the books or the notes given to us. Its made by some other Co.
I have a Final in two weeks that doesn't match the book.
If you where ever thinking of going to itt-tech, DONT, they don't care about the students. - p9s50W5k4GUD2c6, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Sorry - no insult or dishonor intended at UNLV (or any specific educational institution for that matter). This isn't a college specific issue (it's equally a problem in high schools).
My concern with cheating are long term effects that students experience with "small" ethical compromises that can sometimes define a character. Equally, I am concerned that when student opts to take the easy way out, they lose the opportunity to engage themselves in the learning process - thereby cheating themselves.
That said: while I honestly don't believe cheating offers long term benefit to goals or character, I IMMENSELY understand and appreciate the pressures and demands of modern education and modern life on students. - Jeebugorn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i cheated on my mid-term this week. it was operating systems concepts, which i could do everything hands-on, but didnt know all the in-depth stuff they were preaching to get us prepared for A+ cert. anyway, the test was online so it made it so much easier to cheat. if i got to a question i didn't know the answer to, i just went to wiki or google and found the answer and then went on with my test. i dont like cheating, but i really didnt get a chance to study for it, i did what i had to do.
- TigerUppercut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Eh, the only problem I have with this is that p9s50W5k4GUD2c6 submitted an excerpt of the article that makes it seem as if the article was mostly about cheating at UNLV and not about cheating altogether. The excerpt unfairly makes UNLV and its students look bad.
- bash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2At least you attempted to put some security into your tests. I had a teacher who had the "bright" idea of having an online quiz, with full internet access available at our fingertips.
Needless to say, we all aced the test. :P -
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