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...
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...
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