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    Okay, so I was in the testing center on Saturday (I know I'm slow to post) taking my accounting midterm (please be gentle in grading dear Professor )
    Now, there is some really strong rules at the testing center (Utah had one of the highest cheating rates in the country until that coup down in Florida a few weeks ago where 300 students got caught out of 500), one of the big ones is that your phone must be turned completely off (when it's busier they will actually do phone checks at the entrance... Saturday was not busy). If you should fail to turn off your phone, and it rings, you will be asked to immediately turn in your test and leave the testing center. If this has happened you must also pay a $10 fine before you may take a test in the testing center again.
    So, backstory complete, halfway through the test I hear someone's phone go off, and my first thought was along the lines of how stupid do you have to be to leave your phone on knowing the consequences... oh, but it gets better.
    This kid when the proctor told him he had to leave said (thinking he was rather smart), "Oh, I inteded for that, it's to let me know that I'm out of time to take the test"




    Dude, you had scratch paper, there are clocks everywhere, and you had a watch... so rather than doing something smart, like writing down what time you have to turn in your test on some of that scratch paper and checking your watch (something you can do without disturbing other test takers and costing yourself a $10 fine), you thought that the best plan of action was to set your alarm while you were still in line, making a complete guess of how long you'd be in line still, and risk that someone would call you before the test was over?
    Actually, no, I won't even go into all the complications... why would you use a method that you know will cost you $10 when there is a easy and free way to do it...
    If you wish to find meaning, listen to the music not the song

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    Quoth smileyeagle1021 View Post
    (Utah had one of the highest cheating rates in the country until that coup down in Florida a few weeks ago where 300 students got caught out of 500)
    I hate to nitpick, but this is very close to home (literally - I live 5 miles from there). These students admitted to cheating becuase the alternative was to face expulsion.

    These students used a test bank from the publisher of their textbook which someone bought online and emailed to all their friends in the class. They admittedly never should have had been able to get this since it is supposed to be offered only to the instructors.

    It turns out that despite the professor stating that he wrote his own tests (understandable since this is a capstone class), his tests were all questions from that same test bank, randomly chosen by UCF's computers in their testing lab.

    Did some students think that this might happen and hope to cheat the system, or were they honestly just using every resource to study? Is every student that got this email automatically a cheater?

    http://knightnews.com/2010/11/ucf-st...al-with-video/

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