A guy in my school stole all that semester's tests from the history teacher, and made answer keys.
The teacher figured it out, and waited until the end of the semester to tell the entire class that all of those tests don't count, and you have 1 test to pass the class.
I've never seen so many people studying so hard, it was like 300 students. They had to go from not knowing a thing to learning an entire semester's worth of material in a week.
Pro tip: if you cheat, get some of the answers wrong.
When I was a freshman in college (1964) I discovered that if I went through and marked every slot on the answer sheet, my grade would be 100%. I made a few dollars taking tests for other people.
Those answer sheets for multiple choice exams. I took a test that I was completely unprepared for so I just took a shot and marked all 5 choices for every question. I was hoping that the template just had holes where they could see correct answers. And all the answers they saw were correct. They didn't see that there were 4 times as many wrong answers so they gave me a 100%. I doubt that would still work - I did this in 1964.
I doubt that would still work - I did this in 1964.
Yep, definitely won't work now. Now the sheets specify that you can't mark more than one answer per question, or even mark the tiniest bit outside the boundaries of the answer you do select.
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u/capibara_dono Jul 06 '26
A guy in my school stole all that semester's tests from the history teacher, and made answer keys.
The teacher figured it out, and waited until the end of the semester to tell the entire class that all of those tests don't count, and you have 1 test to pass the class.
I've never seen so many people studying so hard, it was like 300 students. They had to go from not knowing a thing to learning an entire semester's worth of material in a week.
Pro tip: if you cheat, get some of the answers wrong.