Don't EVER cheat in College.

[LzeroKI]

I had a math prof last semester that would walk around and clear the memory on all programable graphing calculators during exams.

lowsound

I had a number of professors who would do the same thing, not only to make sure students didn't have notes or formulas saved in the calculator's memory, but also to ensure students from a previous section of the class were not giving students of the current section answers to the exams via the calculator's memory banks.

Though apparently (at least in my circle of friends) I was the only one who knew that you can program in a whole semesters worth of notes into a graphing calculator (which every engineering student had, some even had 2 or 3).

Even if my professors didn't do this, I still wouldn't have bothered with cheating-via-TI-83; in the time it takes to go through and manually type in whatever concept or formula I was worried about remembering, I could just actually learn the material.

 

[Ziltoid]

When I was in chemistry we were not allowed graphing calculator on math/chem/phys/stat exams.

 

[LiquidMidnight]

RE: The difficulty of take home tests versus in-class exams - The take home exams I get as a Ph.D student eat up and crap out the average "throw back concepts and terms by rote memory" in-class undergrad exam.

The exams actually require synthesis of information and original thought. They're basisically practice for the comphrensive exams that I will eventually be taking.

 

[Hawaii Islander]

RE: The difficulty of take home tests versus in-class exams - The take home exams I get as a Ph.D student eat up and crap out the average "throw back concepts and terms by rote memory" in-class undergrad exam.

The exams actually require synthesis of information and original thought. They're basisically practice for the comphrensive exams that I will eventually be taking.

Good luck with your comprehensive exams. Ask for extra blue books from the proctor in advance. Nothing worse than getting in a groove and having to wait for more blue books.

 

[LiquidMidnight]

Thanks Hawaii! However, the comps in my department are taken on a computer - which is awesome for me, because I'm a trained typist and will take typing something over writing it any day of the week.

I haven't taken a blue book exam since my freshman year of college.

 

[MIJ-VI]

I can ban you and show you how us Canadians do it.



And the teacher who reported it actually thought my buddy cheated. But, it was the other way around. I just went into the associate dean and told him

 

[Mark Wilson]

Thanks guys.

Yeah it sucks, but I've gotta live with it.

I could've just handed it in late, been docked maybe 10% on the exam as opposed to being docked 100% on the exam.
fml

 

[Hutzbordello]

keep your head up man

 

[karrot-x]

In Engineering there is "cheating" and then there's cheating.

Don't do the second one.