Professor Catches Cheaters By Adding A Fake Question In The Final Test

Dhir Acharya - Dec 16, 2019

Not all students are willing to spend a lot of time studying for a test, some decide to take bad scores in their tests while others choose to cheat.

If students want to get good grades at school, they’d better work for it. But not all of them are willing to spend a lot of time studying, some decide to take bad scores in their tests while others choose to cheat.

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Cheaters rely on jugaad to overcome the questions, spending more time working on cheating hacks rather than revising lessons and preparing for tests. They will do anything they can to be able to look at answers for tests by bringing tiny sheets, going to the bathroom, etc.

That has put teachers in a place where they have to be stricter or come up with measures to deal with test cheaters. In this incident, a professor had an ingenious hack for catching cheaters during tests.

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In particular, Reddit user Mwxh, a fourth-year student majoring in engineering, shared the trap on the platform.

The user wrote that it was during the final of an engineering class when suddenly half the students in the room had to use the bathroom while normally only one or two did.

The user continued by telling that in the test, there was a problem barely related to what they learned in class, in which part A was quite easy but he couldn’t answer part B. However, the user wasn’t worried as it accounted only 5 in 100 points.

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His post continued:

Many people were surprised that so many students might go to the bathroom like that. The professor’s plan went well, with 14 in 99 students answering the question wrong. He gave them 0 while giving all the others full marks for that question.

As ingenious as the plan was, it was also controversy regarding the fact that the professor named and shamed the cheating students.

Mwxh wrote:

The post about this plan blew up on Reddit, following which the user emailed the professor to ask about his standpoint on his way of catching cheaters. But the professor declined to comment on the matter.

Over time, students have been coming up with more hacks to cheat their way through exams, but dudes, the teacher will always outsmart us. There’s a reason they could become teacher anyway, isn’t there?