These all seem like problems easily avoided if internet access and devices weren’t allowed
Believe it or not, cheating was very much a thing before the internet and before electronic devices.
Story time:
I tried to cheat on my high school’s final exam. Well, I didn’t try to cheat, but rather I wanted to prepare cheat-sheets in case my memory failed me during the exam - but otherwise I intended to try and take the tests fair and square.
But… getting caught cheating carried a really heavy penalty in those days. So I decided to prepare the ultimate cheat-sheets that I could not be spotted consulting: I wrote them in Braille, so I could stick them under my desk and read them with my fingers during the exam.
But I quickly discovered that Braille is really hard - both reading and writing, both in long form and abbreviated forms. But I’m nothing if not persistent. So I learned basic Braille in the course of 6 months during my senior year.
On the day of the exam, I had spent so much time preparing my cheat-sheets that I knew them by heart, and I didn’t need them 🙂 But I spent the rest of my life volunteering my time in various associations for the blinds - one of the very few visually-abled volunteers who could read Braille for some odd reason 🙂
Yeah but here’s the thing: I could not focus for the life of me. Studying bored me to tears. This cheating “project” of mine is something I chose to do, so I kept at it, and it got me to study without realizing it.
Makes sense to me, I hated studying certain subjects in school, and I think it’s because nothing in them was relatable. The ones I liked and did well with had some connection to something meaningful to me. The rest were a struggle and I barely passed or even failed their exams. The fear of poor marks wasn’t enough.
I know cheating was a thing, but now devices that people would have loved to have access to when internet was a thing like phones and laptops being allowed in exams makes prep like yours not even necessary. In some schools teachers collect people’s phones for instance and dont allow people to bring out other electronics.
It’s why I don’t even get why professors are even upset at AI use during exams if they are allowing these devices to begin with.
Its like giving a math exam and telling students calculators aren’t allowed to be used, but you may bring and use your calculator for non calculation purposes. Then being surprised they dared to use the calculator for calculating.
You don’t even have to try to be sneaky and try to hide that you are cheating anymore with how easy some schools make it now.
Believe it or not, cheating was very much a thing before the internet and before electronic devices.
Story time:
I tried to cheat on my high school’s final exam. Well, I didn’t try to cheat, but rather I wanted to prepare cheat-sheets in case my memory failed me during the exam - but otherwise I intended to try and take the tests fair and square.
But… getting caught cheating carried a really heavy penalty in those days. So I decided to prepare the ultimate cheat-sheets that I could not be spotted consulting: I wrote them in Braille, so I could stick them under my desk and read them with my fingers during the exam.
But I quickly discovered that Braille is really hard - both reading and writing, both in long form and abbreviated forms. But I’m nothing if not persistent. So I learned basic Braille in the course of 6 months during my senior year.
On the day of the exam, I had spent so much time preparing my cheat-sheets that I knew them by heart, and I didn’t need them 🙂 But I spent the rest of my life volunteering my time in various associations for the blinds - one of the very few visually-abled volunteers who could read Braille for some odd reason 🙂
The funny part is it would have been less effort to just study for the exam.
Yeah but here’s the thing: I could not focus for the life of me. Studying bored me to tears. This cheating “project” of mine is something I chose to do, so I kept at it, and it got me to study without realizing it.
Makes sense to me, I hated studying certain subjects in school, and I think it’s because nothing in them was relatable. The ones I liked and did well with had some connection to something meaningful to me. The rest were a struggle and I barely passed or even failed their exams. The fear of poor marks wasn’t enough.
The fear of poor marks never scared me: when I was a kid, there were good jobs for anybody who was half-clever without a degree.
Nowadays, I wouldn’t fear poor marks either: there are no jobs left for anybody anyway.
I know cheating was a thing, but now devices that people would have loved to have access to when internet was a thing like phones and laptops being allowed in exams makes prep like yours not even necessary. In some schools teachers collect people’s phones for instance and dont allow people to bring out other electronics.
It’s why I don’t even get why professors are even upset at AI use during exams if they are allowing these devices to begin with.
Its like giving a math exam and telling students calculators aren’t allowed to be used, but you may bring and use your calculator for non calculation purposes. Then being surprised they dared to use the calculator for calculating.
You don’t even have to try to be sneaky and try to hide that you are cheating anymore with how easy some schools make it now.