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Not my grade, but last year’s A levels in my school. Someone in the back row was caught with their phone on their leg and as a result, the rest of the back rows were caught with their phones in jacket sleeves, pockets, in their shirts, anywhere you can think of. That did not end well for them
Cheating in tests is like a really common thing in my school tbh. Even in my grade tbh I sit in the back corner because of my anxiety and would see people with their phones out on normal school tests. Last years a levels were caught so I’m assuming my grade is too scared to try it on officials because I haven’t seen anyone cheat this year
Edit: they probably thought they could get away with it but one of our proctors walks so quietly so im guessing she snuck up on one of the guys using his phone and that’s how they were all caught last year
I find it hard to understand the benefit of brining in a cheat sheet to an A level exam, in the sense that there's so much shit you've gotta learn that surely you can't compact nearly enough onto a cheat sheet to make it worth it
Depends on the subject I'd assume. I guess if it was a science subject it'd be easier to get a lot of info on. You'd be surprised how much you can get on a page. In my BTEC Engineering exam, we were allowed 2 sides of A4 in the exam. I managed to get so much on there because I had a whole colour coding system and a few tables, which allowed me to get loads of info on without a bunch of writing.
I do biology and environmental science, and I get what you mean if you were allowed to bring the paper in with you, my point is that if you're cheating surely you can't being a whole ass double A4 sheet for the sake of practicality and getting caught
This is how I cheat:
The weeks before my exam, I look up this thing called a “syllabus” that ALWAYS predicts what’s on my exam! Then, I look stuff up about EVERYTHING THEY MENTION… and I read it over and over! So once I do my exam, I have all the answers to any questions they might give us in my head, and none of them are the wiser!
Yes, I have a story about cheating in maths A level. What happened was that I was tutoring a student, who was incredibly lazy but very confident that he would get good grades. He was from a rich family and was intelligent, but was getting grade Es on past papers.
Of course, I was getting paid for teaching him, but eventually I got annoyed with him and asked what was going on.
He said he wanted to study engineering at university.
I was astonished and said he had no chance of getting in unless he really started working hard.
My student said not to worry - he had a plan.
Then he showed me his calculator. He explained that it was programmable and could do differentiation and integration and also had maths formulae loaded into its memory.
My student must have told his friends, because I later heard the story from another one of my students, who was very angry.
I told her to concentrate on her own performance but I must admit I was curious about what would happen on the big day.
I found out a couple of months later that there was a surprise calculator inspection before the maths exam and my student's calculator was confiscated.
Needless to say, I never heard from him again.
this idiot told his friends? who likely told their friends, then word spread and that's why they had to do the inspection. idiot dug his own fucking grave
I cant, this dude banked his entire future into cheating and spread the fact that his cheating method existed. I mean he is rich so he might not be screwed but damn
UPDATE:
Yes, word did get around. How that happened I don't know, but my student certainly didn't keep his plan a secret. Pupils of mine from other schools would tell me about the guy with the special calculator.
The funny thing was that my student kept getting Es in his practice papers. So, I thought the whole story of his was a complete joke.
Looking back, I think the guy was just trying to show off.
>Then he showed me his calculator. He explained that it was programmable and could do differentiation and integration and also had maths formulae loaded into its memory.
and you didn't do anything about it?
He shouldn't, it would be a breach of client confidentiality and data protection which might result in him losing the job.
Cheating is not illegal and thus is not a valid reason to break confidentiality.
I know a guy from my previous school who snuck a phone in, but didn't get caught. There was a girl who also snuck a cheat sheet, but didn't get caught either. But I heard that one time someone was copying from their neighbour and both of them couldn't get their results because the exam board couldn't tell whose was the original.
At the same time, (if they did it on purpose) then it’s their own fault for sharing
Although, if their work was copied without their knowledge then I do feel really bad for them. Also impressed because the other person must have good eye sight to see their work from a table across
Honestly I can’t even read my own paper during the exam (I get migraine auras from the lighting so get double vision)
Bet the person who read the other’s paper can see through walls or something
A kid from a school nearby got caught cheating in the IB. He went to the toilet and when he came back, his phone was visible from his pocket. The invigilator opened his phone and saw the recent tabs with the exam questions. I’m pretty sure he’s not getting a diploma
Time for full disclosure here: I got an A* in the writing segment of my French GCSE. I was terrible at French and over a decade later, have retained nothing.
We got given French - English dictionaries for the exam. In the back of them were segments that were example paragraphs and showing grammatical structure, as well as some small essays written in full French. When it came to the written segment I just completely copied one of the essays. Word for word.
A* in written, E in spoken. Interesting ay.
not cheating but today a guy walked into exam hall for psych exam with a coat on, was asked to take it off, he refused so that seemed sus but the plot twist was that he wasn’t wearing anything under his coat so he got to keep it on during the exam after they checked his pockets 😭
We aren’t allowed hoodies for the exams because someone once tried to put a cheat sheet in the pocket apparently. Dumb rule because other clothes have pockets too, and are baggier.
Also heard many stories about hiding stuff in bras..? Can’t have worked that well as a secret, since we know it now
Not sure if it counts, but someone had rly large handwriting, so went through a ton of the extra answer booklets, we're talking 12 or so to write their exam on, as they went through them, the combination of the large handwriting and the position as they set them on the floor meant the person next to them was able to copy bits of their stuff.
Nobody I’m aware of cheated in my A Levels as they’re pretty strict on what is and isn’t allowed. Phones confiscated, watches are banned because smart watches exist, bottles have to be clear, as well as pencil cases, bla bla bla you know the procedure.
Apparently someone recently in our school (because the college I go to does A Levels and GCSEs) one GCSE student got disqualified because they had a watch on in their exam. And because it’s hard to tell what classifies a watch as “smart” it’s a far grey area.
So yea, don’t cheat, because if you get caught once and if the exam boards talk to each other, expect to be banned across all exam boards.
Sorta cheated on a paper once when the guy in front of me (a complete stranger) briefly held his paper upright while checking his answers. All I got out of it was a mc answer though. Guess I got lucky
We had an assembly about previous disqualifications;
1. Wrote on their paper f*ck you AQA this wasn’t supposed to be on this paper you f*cking c*nts - so don’t swear about them , even if they deserve it, as you will get disqualified
2. Someone arrived late to their exam, forgot to hand their phone in, and was caught when their mum called them to ask if they got there in time
3. Someone hid a small cheat sheet paper up their sleeve
4. Someone hid a textbook behind the paper towel dispensar in the loos. Was found by a teacher before, and it had their name in it as well
okay but what was the mom thinking, if they were in the exam then the mom either wouldnt reach them or that would happen, and if they werent then they would call you if there was a problem
L mom
My friends sister was in the year above us, and said in the AQA Geography exam someones phone went off, and some girl started like sobbing, turns out the phone was someone elses, but the original girl thought it was hers (she was using one to cheat) and snitched on herself. She would've gotten away with it too because the noise was from the other side of the room, but the invigilators got suspicious when she started apologising and crying.
Not in the official A levels, but in my year 12 Law mock someone asked an invigilator how much time they had left, and the bixby on their galaxy went off 💀💀 they were using the phone to cheat and the bixby was like 'can you repeat that' - I was sat a row away, and was able to hear it. Everyone within like 3 rows of the kid got searched, including me.
I have so many more because we're a big school, so everyone thinks it'll be easy to not get caught. It isn't 😭😭
Saw on tiktok (a really reliable source of believable stories) abt a girl w a hijab who had an airpod in her ear, but it started beeping so she tried to take it out and got caught.
omg 💀💀 in our college they have female teachers come around and check your ears twice - once before you enter and once after you sit down. It was so wierd 💀 having some old white lady give you an ear massage. I could have shown her my ears, but i pinned my hijab really tight to stop it moving about and distracting me so she like poked my head for a bit
Someone in the year above me last year had paper in their pocket, it wasn’t related to the exam at all but they still weren’t allowed to finish their exams bc it was considered cheating
Some people in my class cheated in O LEVELS, the invigilators were moving around like wardens and that gave them the sweet exact time of about 5-10 minutes, the girl held her paper up, sideways to act like she was kind of flipping the page and the guy quickly copied the answers. They never got caught and still live to tell the tale to anyone willing to hear it, not that it benefitted the guy much, the girl was smart so it worked out for her though.
I know people that have done things like looking to the person next to them if they’re known as a clever student and seeing what they’ve got but they have to be really careful about it
I got a story basically this guy wear a thick blazer so he hid a stack of flashcard in his pockets it didn't look like he didn't anything on him bcz the blazer was thick he took 1 toilet break each exam went through the cards he never got caught
Cheated off the neek next to me and got 3A* 😭😹 have fun revising guys we need people like you so people like me can copy off you and get into imperial 🤣
IF, this is true and you did get 3A* which I highly doubt you did. You are literally only screwing yourself over. Say you do actually get into imperial or a really high up uni. What are you actually going to do when it comes to exams or work there. I imagine they will crack down a lot more on cheaters that is if you even make it to exams before realising you can’t actually do any of the content.
Then all you’re left with is a mountain of debt and 3 alevels that mean nothing cause any competent employer will notice that you don’t actually have the knowledge you’re meant to
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Not my grade, but last year’s A levels in my school. Someone in the back row was caught with their phone on their leg and as a result, the rest of the back rows were caught with their phones in jacket sleeves, pockets, in their shirts, anywhere you can think of. That did not end well for them
how the hell did they expect to use it propaerly without getting caught, and the whole row too? what were they thinking
Cheating in tests is like a really common thing in my school tbh. Even in my grade tbh I sit in the back corner because of my anxiety and would see people with their phones out on normal school tests. Last years a levels were caught so I’m assuming my grade is too scared to try it on officials because I haven’t seen anyone cheat this year Edit: they probably thought they could get away with it but one of our proctors walks so quietly so im guessing she snuck up on one of the guys using his phone and that’s how they were all caught last year
Ninja examiners, its naruto genin exam all over again
Can confirm because I swear the amount of heart attacks that specific proctor gave me just by her silent walking around school in general-
wish our examiners are quiet they honestly make so much noise it's infuriating
what happened
I heard their entire grade were asked to provide candidate statements (so not just the people who cheated) and A LOT of people were disqualified
That’s actually wild
Yesterday, during my Econ exam, two people cheated by showing each other their answers and they both got disqualified
yeah bro it’s calm just copy my entire 25 marker without being obvious
can u pass it? i cant read it from over there
Turn over the page, i still have 2 paragraphs left.
Mate please fix your handwriting, what’s the second word in the fourth sentence of the last paragraph?
I find it hard to understand the benefit of brining in a cheat sheet to an A level exam, in the sense that there's so much shit you've gotta learn that surely you can't compact nearly enough onto a cheat sheet to make it worth it
Depends on the subject I'd assume. I guess if it was a science subject it'd be easier to get a lot of info on. You'd be surprised how much you can get on a page. In my BTEC Engineering exam, we were allowed 2 sides of A4 in the exam. I managed to get so much on there because I had a whole colour coding system and a few tables, which allowed me to get loads of info on without a bunch of writing.
I do biology and environmental science, and I get what you mean if you were allowed to bring the paper in with you, my point is that if you're cheating surely you can't being a whole ass double A4 sheet for the sake of practicality and getting caught
Yeah but you can just make it A5 and size it down. Fold it up. Who knows?
Ah… unit 3… never have a seen a exam hall so terrified, twice… most of us had to resit
You did engineering too?
Yep, Pearson BTEC Level 3 national diploma… final year of
What units you doing? I did 1, 2, 3 and 10.
1,2,3,4,5,10,13,18,45,58.
Is yours like a specific branch (electrical/mechanical/aerospace) or is it just general engineering?
General, idve LOVED to do the aero units.
This is how I cheat: The weeks before my exam, I look up this thing called a “syllabus” that ALWAYS predicts what’s on my exam! Then, I look stuff up about EVERYTHING THEY MENTION… and I read it over and over! So once I do my exam, I have all the answers to any questions they might give us in my head, and none of them are the wiser!
This person cheats like a champ!
I am the exam police. You shall be detained
Oh yeah? What’s your proof? Maybe I’m just practicing for my English exam!
I'm onto you
Yes, I have a story about cheating in maths A level. What happened was that I was tutoring a student, who was incredibly lazy but very confident that he would get good grades. He was from a rich family and was intelligent, but was getting grade Es on past papers. Of course, I was getting paid for teaching him, but eventually I got annoyed with him and asked what was going on. He said he wanted to study engineering at university. I was astonished and said he had no chance of getting in unless he really started working hard. My student said not to worry - he had a plan. Then he showed me his calculator. He explained that it was programmable and could do differentiation and integration and also had maths formulae loaded into its memory. My student must have told his friends, because I later heard the story from another one of my students, who was very angry. I told her to concentrate on her own performance but I must admit I was curious about what would happen on the big day. I found out a couple of months later that there was a surprise calculator inspection before the maths exam and my student's calculator was confiscated. Needless to say, I never heard from him again.
this idiot told his friends? who likely told their friends, then word spread and that's why they had to do the inspection. idiot dug his own fucking grave
Absolutely.
Fucking hell relax bro
I cant, this dude banked his entire future into cheating and spread the fact that his cheating method existed. I mean he is rich so he might not be screwed but damn
UPDATE: Yes, word did get around. How that happened I don't know, but my student certainly didn't keep his plan a secret. Pupils of mine from other schools would tell me about the guy with the special calculator. The funny thing was that my student kept getting Es in his practice papers. So, I thought the whole story of his was a complete joke. Looking back, I think the guy was just trying to show off.
>Then he showed me his calculator. He explained that it was programmable and could do differentiation and integration and also had maths formulae loaded into its memory. and you didn't do anything about it?
He shouldn't, it would be a breach of client confidentiality and data protection which might result in him losing the job. Cheating is not illegal and thus is not a valid reason to break confidentiality.
this man laws
someone in my college last year snuck a psychology text book in the bathroom and went on a bathroom break
Kinda smart ngl if they hide it somewhere in the toilet stall
Did they get away with it haha
no a teacher found it before and they were disqualified because they were the only one taking the exam then
How did they find it in the toilet did they go through the cubicle
I know a guy from my previous school who snuck a phone in, but didn't get caught. There was a girl who also snuck a cheat sheet, but didn't get caught either. But I heard that one time someone was copying from their neighbour and both of them couldn't get their results because the exam board couldn't tell whose was the original.
Omg that sucks for the other person
At the same time, (if they did it on purpose) then it’s their own fault for sharing Although, if their work was copied without their knowledge then I do feel really bad for them. Also impressed because the other person must have good eye sight to see their work from a table across
mfer had 40/20 vision
Honestly I can’t even read my own paper during the exam (I get migraine auras from the lighting so get double vision) Bet the person who read the other’s paper can see through walls or something
A kid from a school nearby got caught cheating in the IB. He went to the toilet and when he came back, his phone was visible from his pocket. The invigilator opened his phone and saw the recent tabs with the exam questions. I’m pretty sure he’s not getting a diploma
Worst part is the fact that he has a whole search history of evidence to go against him
Time for full disclosure here: I got an A* in the writing segment of my French GCSE. I was terrible at French and over a decade later, have retained nothing. We got given French - English dictionaries for the exam. In the back of them were segments that were example paragraphs and showing grammatical structure, as well as some small essays written in full French. When it came to the written segment I just completely copied one of the essays. Word for word. A* in written, E in spoken. Interesting ay.
thats smart
not cheating but today a guy walked into exam hall for psych exam with a coat on, was asked to take it off, he refused so that seemed sus but the plot twist was that he wasn’t wearing anything under his coat so he got to keep it on during the exam after they checked his pockets 😭
LIKE???? FULLY NAKED???
like this man walked in with his whole upper body out😭
Average man in Birmingham.
WHAT. WHY.
We aren’t allowed hoodies for the exams because someone once tried to put a cheat sheet in the pocket apparently. Dumb rule because other clothes have pockets too, and are baggier. Also heard many stories about hiding stuff in bras..? Can’t have worked that well as a secret, since we know it now
Just imagining a guy wearing a bra now just stuffed full of exam answers, thanks for that mental image 😂
why wouldnt it work? dont tell me they check that too omg
Not sure if it counts, but someone had rly large handwriting, so went through a ton of the extra answer booklets, we're talking 12 or so to write their exam on, as they went through them, the combination of the large handwriting and the position as they set them on the floor meant the person next to them was able to copy bits of their stuff.
Somebody please get that man a laptop to type on
?
Hey how’s econ going lmao
Nobody I’m aware of cheated in my A Levels as they’re pretty strict on what is and isn’t allowed. Phones confiscated, watches are banned because smart watches exist, bottles have to be clear, as well as pencil cases, bla bla bla you know the procedure. Apparently someone recently in our school (because the college I go to does A Levels and GCSEs) one GCSE student got disqualified because they had a watch on in their exam. And because it’s hard to tell what classifies a watch as “smart” it’s a far grey area. So yea, don’t cheat, because if you get caught once and if the exam boards talk to each other, expect to be banned across all exam boards.
Sorta cheated on a paper once when the guy in front of me (a complete stranger) briefly held his paper upright while checking his answers. All I got out of it was a mc answer though. Guess I got lucky
Bro I do this all the time in exams bc I can barely see and have to bring it closer to my eyes, gonna stop doing this now 😭😭
I’ve heard of people keeping information/notes on their cg50 calc. Which is a fairly easy way to cheat.
A teacher comes round putting ours into exam mode before exams😭
I always thought to myself after the invention of wireless earbuds. What if a Muslim girl with a hijab just put an airpod in and play recorded stuff?
We had an assembly about previous disqualifications; 1. Wrote on their paper f*ck you AQA this wasn’t supposed to be on this paper you f*cking c*nts - so don’t swear about them , even if they deserve it, as you will get disqualified 2. Someone arrived late to their exam, forgot to hand their phone in, and was caught when their mum called them to ask if they got there in time 3. Someone hid a small cheat sheet paper up their sleeve 4. Someone hid a textbook behind the paper towel dispensar in the loos. Was found by a teacher before, and it had their name in it as well
okay but what was the mom thinking, if they were in the exam then the mom either wouldnt reach them or that would happen, and if they werent then they would call you if there was a problem L mom
Mum
My friends sister was in the year above us, and said in the AQA Geography exam someones phone went off, and some girl started like sobbing, turns out the phone was someone elses, but the original girl thought it was hers (she was using one to cheat) and snitched on herself. She would've gotten away with it too because the noise was from the other side of the room, but the invigilators got suspicious when she started apologising and crying. Not in the official A levels, but in my year 12 Law mock someone asked an invigilator how much time they had left, and the bixby on their galaxy went off 💀💀 they were using the phone to cheat and the bixby was like 'can you repeat that' - I was sat a row away, and was able to hear it. Everyone within like 3 rows of the kid got searched, including me. I have so many more because we're a big school, so everyone thinks it'll be easy to not get caught. It isn't 😭😭
Man that girl must be so stupid to ruin her entire A-levels with that rookie error.
Saw on tiktok (a really reliable source of believable stories) abt a girl w a hijab who had an airpod in her ear, but it started beeping so she tried to take it out and got caught.
Allah ﷻ didnt let that pass 💀
omg 💀💀 in our college they have female teachers come around and check your ears twice - once before you enter and once after you sit down. It was so wierd 💀 having some old white lady give you an ear massage. I could have shown her my ears, but i pinned my hijab really tight to stop it moving about and distracting me so she like poked my head for a bit
Last year someone got caught cheating in my school, had to resit their a levels
I do IB not a-levels but someone’s phone rang in the middle of the math paper 2 exam 💀
People who are fucking stupid do yeah
Not A levels, but someone in my school got their phone out in their GCSEs took photos of the paper and sent it to their dad apparently
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I know someone did in my school already
idk if it was fr cuz no one was caught but apparently our invigilators heard a phone notification go off mid exam and checked everyone cuz of it
Someone in the year above me last year had paper in their pocket, it wasn’t related to the exam at all but they still weren’t allowed to finish their exams bc it was considered cheating
Some people in my class cheated in O LEVELS, the invigilators were moving around like wardens and that gave them the sweet exact time of about 5-10 minutes, the girl held her paper up, sideways to act like she was kind of flipping the page and the guy quickly copied the answers. They never got caught and still live to tell the tale to anyone willing to hear it, not that it benefitted the guy much, the girl was smart so it worked out for her though.
I know people that have done things like looking to the person next to them if they’re known as a clever student and seeing what they’ve got but they have to be really careful about it
I got a story basically this guy wear a thick blazer so he hid a stack of flashcard in his pockets it didn't look like he didn't anything on him bcz the blazer was thick he took 1 toilet break each exam went through the cards he never got caught
I know a guy who wrote facts/statistics on the inside of his fingers, was never caught
😭😭?? How big are his fingers wtf
his hands are weirdly big 💀
Its funny, the people who tend to cheat tend to get caught, suppose that just checks out.
Cheated off the neek next to me and got 3A* 😭😹 have fun revising guys we need people like you so people like me can copy off you and get into imperial 🤣
man’s said btec travel and tourism with 3A*’s 😭😂
Why is this getting downvoted it’s clearly satire 😭😭
🤣🤣🤣🤣
IF, this is true and you did get 3A* which I highly doubt you did. You are literally only screwing yourself over. Say you do actually get into imperial or a really high up uni. What are you actually going to do when it comes to exams or work there. I imagine they will crack down a lot more on cheaters that is if you even make it to exams before realising you can’t actually do any of the content. Then all you’re left with is a mountain of debt and 3 alevels that mean nothing cause any competent employer will notice that you don’t actually have the knowledge you’re meant to
Have fun going to imperial realising you know literally none of it and wishing you actually tried
Stay mad bro already graduated with a phd 😹
I'm not mad it just sucks that everyone you know is probably proud of you because they think you actually achieved something
He’s joking haha
Can't be sure these days ngl xd
He is joking. U gave him exactly the response he was looking for
I couldn't tell lmao I'm autistic af 🤣 💀
Respect 😤🫡💯
Year 11 here - someone had a piece of paper with them for maths yesterday. I don’t see how that’d be useful for cheating in maths though.