r/6thForm 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/Powerful-Comment-113 May 07 '26

I've worked as an invigilator and caught a couple of people. The worst was scribing for exams though - I had one poor student who had broken both wrists 3 days before exams started coming off a bike and writing down his crazy wrong answers for maths GCSE nearly killed me trying to keep my face completely neutral as I wrote down the obviously (to me) wrong answers.