How to Cheat During Exams

As a teacher, obviously you have to face a lot of difficulties. One of them is to prevent the students from cheating during the exams. This one is really important as you never want a ‘cheater’ to top the class. So, to prevent cheating, first you have to think like a cheater! Then you will be able to detect and prevent cheating. However, to make your life easier, here are some ways that cheaters usually use-

• Copying from someone else is the safest technique to cheat. Students sometimes form a group and sit together in the exam hall according to their planning. If there are multiple choices questions (MCQ) or fill in the blanks, they write the answers and put the tick marks in the question paper and passes to each other. One ‘accidentally’ drops the paper on the floor and someone else takes it.
• They can simply exchange the answers by whispering.
• Some people talk to each other but don’t look at each other. So, the teacher standing at a distance does not have a clue about what is going on.
• One can simply copy from someone who is sitting next to him or her.
• Sometimes answers to the MCQs are written serially on a rubber and then exchanged.
• Use of fingers to indicate an answer is probably the oldest method of cheating in the exam.
• Use coughing a set number of times can be used as well.
• Some cheaters write the answers on their body, scale, rubber, and calculator and of course the desk.
• Scientific calculators are widely used save the answers. They can hold text, formulae etc.
• Books or notes are sometimes hidden in the toilet. During the exam, one may go to the toilet with permission and see some of the answers of the questions that have come in the exam.
• Instead of keeping things in the toilet, one can take the photographs of the important questions and can see them in the toilet.
• In the worst case, one can have his / her friend to take the test instead of him / her.