A teacher, who’d had enough of students cheating using their mobile phones during tests, caught 14 cheating students by pulling out a genius plan.
Cheating has always been a difficult task for students. To cheat effectively and efficiently, you must have some notes at hand, or some secret calculator or some other gadget.
Then there is always a risk, a risk of being caught and a risk of not being able to cheat due to strict invigilation.
But thanks to technological advancements, cheating is becoming easier for students worldwide. Now you don’t need a lot of things to cheat, just a smartphone can work.
You can get the answer to any question using a smartphone connected to a working internet connection.
And this is what irritated this teacher we’re talking about.
Annoyed at a large number of students using unfair means to get through tests and exams, the teacher decided to give the students a taste of their own medicine and planned something out of the box.
It all started when the teacher noted an increase in the number of students going to the washroom during exams, according to Mirror Online.
He noticed that half of his class went to the restroom during exams, compared to two or three students going there on a normal day.
So he devised a brilliant plan. He added an impossible question to the test and planted an answer to that on the internet.
The logic was simple – anyone who answers the question from the source is guilty of cheating. And it worked!
One of his students wrote on Reddit: “Usually one or two people will go to the bathroom during class, however, for totally unknown reasons, about half of the class needed to use the restroom during the exam.
“Obviously a vast majority of them were looking up the answers on their phones.”
The question in question here was ‘barely related to the stuff we went over in class,’ the student said. Hence, anyone who had done that ‘test’ question right was informed via an email that they’d been caught.
The students used a website known as Chegg to find the answers. Now using the website is not an offense unless you are sneaking out of the class amid a test to consult it.
The student further said: “He purposely made part B impossible to solve, and about a month before the final he got a teaching assistant with a Chegg account to ask the exact question, which was distinctly worded to be unique.
“He then created his own Chegg account and answered the question with a [made up] solution that seems right at first glance but is actually fundamentally flawed and very unlikely that someone would make the same assumptions and mistakes independently.”
A total of 99 students appeared in the exam and 14 of them used the answer planted on Chegg by their teacher.
The cheaters got zero marks and their case was forwarded to the university administration for violating the code of conduct.
The best part is every student who answered the question the ‘wrong’ way got full marks for it.
Replaced!