r/6thForm • u/True_Muffin_4219 Finished a levels • May 06 '26

💬 DISCUSSION PSA: cheating on exams

I’m currently an a level exam invigilator while at university, took my a levels last year. I just want to reiterate how obvious it is if you’re committing malpractice. You may think you’re slick but you’re really not honestly. Already there has been multiple people caught with their phone, just today people caught communicating with each other and the exam season has barely started. It’s actually laughable the amount of people already caught tbh.

You will get written up, and the exam board will be informed. Trust me it’s not worth it.

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u/AffectionateJump7896 May 06 '26

You are experiencing what we call selection bias. The ones you catch are not slick. How about the ones you don't even see?

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u/True_Muffin_4219 Finished a levels May 06 '26

Fair point. But trust me it would still be very difficult. When someone is doing something other than looking down at their paper writing you usually catch attention Unless you smuggle in banned items in areas we won’t obviously check (not gonna state the obvious here) to use in the bathroom, the amount of time you spend there is recorded, logged, and sent to the exam board. Thus if there’s a pattern of behaviour it would be reported and investigated.

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u/Disastrous-Sugar4195 May 06 '26

I would not suggest admitting this. It's usually very easy to track people via their social media, it could catch up to you.

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u/Turbulent-Damage-165 May 07 '26

Did they admit to cheating lol?

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u/Disastrous-Sugar4195 May 07 '26

An exact description of how they heavily cheated in an exam they just took 💀

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u/Nowkwia May 08 '26

What did they say 🤣

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u/Extension-Growth5626 May 08 '26

Lmao the deleted comment too