Teacher Sets Ingenious Exam Question To Catch Cheaters Using App & Caught 14 Student

Being a teacher isn’t easy.

You have to turn up every day to class pretending that you care about educating a miserable group of students who would rather look out the window and stare at birds pooping than learn the Pythagorean theorem.

So, for a whole year, your only student is the wall at the back of the class. But then exams come around and your lazy students turn into non-magical Hermoine Grangers, hoping they’ll be able to absorb a year’s worth of lessons in one week.

But, obviously, that doesn’t happen. So, they cheat.

And your blood starts boiling because these young little cheaters are getting away with murder; the murder of knowledge.

Sadly, there’s nothing you can do about it.

Or is there?

Teacher Sets Ingenious Exam Question To Catch Cheaters Using App & Caught 14 Student

One frustrated teacher managed to find the cheaters in his class using a creatively designed exam question.

One of his students, who we’ll call M, explained that when the class sat down to take their final exam, about half the class left the room to use the bathroom, far more than usual.

Did a bout of explosive diarrhoea just happen to strike half the class at that very moment? Not quite. M said that they were all looking up answers on their phone. This “irritated” M, but he continued to do his paper.

Strange question

M later said that there was one particular question that wasn’t related to what they had all been taught in class.

That’s basically every single exam question in a Singaporean student’s life.

This question had two parts; Part A was easy, but many students had no idea how to do Part B, so they left it blank as it only accounted for 5 marks out of 100.

Gotcha email

After all their papers had been marked, the teacher sent an email to all his pupils revealing his devious plan to catch cheaters in his class.

Many of his students use Chegg, an app that provides answers to exam and homework questions.

Students obviously assumed their teacher was another lame boomer who would be too busy figuring how to unlock his phone to use such an app.

But they were wrong.

Set up answer on Chegg

Fed up with students using the bathroom as an excuse to look up exam answers, the teacher decided to use the app to catch cheaters.

M 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 bulls*** 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”, he added.

And it worked.

14 fell for the trick

Out of his 99 students, 14 cheaters fell for the trick and gave the exact answer their own teacher had posted online.

They were all given a score of zero and reported to the university for violating the academic honor pledge they had signed.

Dayum, that was cold-blooded. 

Their names were also passed to all the other teachers in the department as known cheaters. And all the other students who hadn’t cheated were rewarded with full marks for the bogus question.

Teacher: So, what have we learned today? 

Reader: Don’t cheat if you know you’re going to get caught?

Teacher: Try shortening that sentence

Reader: Don’t get caught?

Teacher: I give up