11 CRAZY THINGS Students Did To Pass!

 

11 Crazy Things Students Did To Pass 11.

 The Boycott

 Some people are so convinced they can’t possibly pass a test they don’t even bother to show up to take it.

 Students in two computer science courses at Johns Hopkins University took this sense of defeatism to a new extreme when they staged class-wide boycotts in order to pass their fall semester final exams.

 The instructor of both courses, known to generously grade his exams on a curve, explained to The Johns Hopkins News-Letter soon after the 2013 incident, “In my courses, all grades are relative to the highest actually achieved score.

 Thus, if no one showed up and everyone got a 0%, everyone would be marked as 100%.” Despite learning of the coordinated effort in advance, the instructor elected not to interfere, insisting his students couldn’t possibly accomplish the feet of doing nothing at all come exam time.

 10.

 Superstition Ain’t the Way It’s common to employ superstition in hopes of finding success in high-pressure situations, but students in South Korea are known to add their own special scent to this approach.

 A widely accepted and- more than questionable technique in passing tests of all kinds in South Korean culture is to avoid bathing in advance of test time.

 This comes from the obviously false belief that to wash one’s hair is to rid the mind of the information it has retained.

 As an additional benefit, students’ overwhelming body odor is likely to act as an effective repellent for over-the-shoulder cheaters and doting teachers alike.

 9.

 “Paper Classes”

 Some teams will do anything to win.

 In 2014, an eight-month independent investigation into coursework practices at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill uncovered thousands of cases in which student athletes took advantage of so-called “paper classes” facilitated by numerous university personnel over 18 years.

 Such classes were either non-existent, lacking in adequate college-level requirements or absurdly “easy As.” This secretive system was constructed in order to keep athletes eligible for competition so that UNC could maintain its winning record across the national landscape of college athletics, especially basketball.

 Four university employees lost their jobs, the NCAA instituted far-reaching penalties and UNC’s previously pristine public image was permanently tainted.

 8.

 The Price for Passing Using an alternate to face unwanted challenges is an understandable desire, but most people aren’t lucky enough to have a stand-in waiting nearby.

 When it came to taking the SAT and ACT, however, dozens of teenagers at five prestigious Long Island high schools were willing to pay up to $3,600 for peers or college students to fill the bubbles in their places.

 Some adults posing as students were able to take the tests multiple times at the same venue using a different fake IDs.

 After the cheating ring was uncovered in 2011, more than 20 students were arrested and charged with simple misdemeanors or, in some cases, felonies.

 Money can’t buy happiness, but clearly it can buy a 2400.

 7.

 Disappearing Notes

 The use of invisible ink to relay information is widely perceived as the stuff of action/adventure movies, particularly those dealing with espionage or extreme secrecy.

 But when a law student in the United Kingdom was caught during an exam in 2016 with over 24 pages of notes written in script only visible when exposed to a small ultraviolet light, her instructors found themselves confronting a highly unconventional form of deception.

 The student in question ended up receiving a failing grade in all of her classes as punishment.

 Many educators have commented on the tendency of some students to show more creativity and ingenuity in trying to cheat than in actually studying for exams, but few would expect their students to resort to tactics used in Nicholas Cage movies to get ahead.

 6.

 A Team of Professionals What does it say when you feel you have cheat on a test before even being accepted into a school?

 The best people to ask may be the four Thai students who recently conspired to cheat on a medical school entrance exam using measures resembling a high-tech bank heist - camera-equipped eyeglasses, Smart watches and a team of experts standing by to look up every answer.

 The students arranged the charade so that the cameras within their glasses would record questions asked on the exam.

 One by one, each student would then ask to be excused from the test room and pass off their glasses to members of a team of hired researchers on-hand nearby to rapidly research the answers to each section.

 Once compiled, the answers would be sent to the test takers’ wristwatches.

 The ruse was discovered when the exam proctor became suspicious upon noticing the students exiting the room and subsequently returning without their glasses.

 5.

 S.O.S.

 In 2015, the website The Student Room conducted a survey that reported one in ten British students admit to having cheated in an academic setting.

 Among the most surprising methods came an anecdote by one anonymous respondent regarding the use of Morse code to convey answers to peers.

 This method is arguably more difficult than simply studying, but for the students who pulled it off, it proved an original - potentially irritating - way to pass.

 How would it work?

 It’s as simple as tapping one’s pen or pencil on the surface of a desk or table once the exam has begun.

 For those who overcome the challenges of becoming fluent in Morse code, the real test then comes in communicating full sentences without annoying the proctor or fellow test-takers.

 A foreign language exam would be maddening.

 4.

 Let the Pig Decide

 Many people have special rituals that they employ while preparing to take an important test or working on a major assignment.

 Come exam time in Hong Kong, students celebrate a tradition known as “Ging Guo,” roughly translated as “Superpass.” It entails eating cashews and pork.

 Simple, right?

 The cashews are valued because the Mandarin word for cashews sounds similar to the phrase “Wish to pass.”

 This is followed by light-hearted attempts by young pupils to chop a roast pig in half, emulating the force of a guillotine.

 To succeed in severing the pig is thought to be a sign of good fortune in impending academic pursuits.

 3.

 Adjusting the Numbers Why go to the lengths of cheating when you can just change your test score after the fact?

 A student at the University of Birmingham had that exact thought and decided to act on it by attaching a shadow device that kept track of keystrokes - specifically passwords - to two of his professors’ computers.

 With access to the grading system, he then increased his grades on several exams and projects.

 When the invasive devices were discovered, an extensive inquiry exposed the student, leading to his expulsion and arrest.

 He was midway through his final year of school.

 2.

 The Expensive Way to Earn a Visa Some people will do anything to come to the United States.

 This apparently includes paying others to take English proficiency exams in their place, which is exactly what 15 Chinese citizens did in order to achieve visa status so they could attend American universities.

 In each case, either these individuals or their families paid thousands of dollars to Chinese Americans and supplied them with fake passports to present at test sites in order to facilitate a fraudulent mastery of the language.

 After four years of gathering evidence, the U.S. Department of Justice exposed the practice and issued a 35-count indictment against those involved.

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 It’s All in the Vest In 2015, India’s supreme court voided the results of the country’s standard prerequisite medical and dental exams.

 The reason?

 Widespread instances of high-tech cheating mechanisms, the most popular of which was the use of jackets or vests fitted with small microphones and transmitters connected to outside designated researchers.

 After having the exam questions whispered to them via the test-takers, these researchers would feed the correct answers through tiny earpieces that often went unseen by those giving out the exams.

 Specialized garments such as these became so common that students in some regions were required to wear tank tops or sleeveless shirts during test time.