Cheaters: The Rematch.
Apr. 15th, 2009 11:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sechan19We were on the lookout for the problem couple this time out. Five minutes into the exam, it was clear that the same thing was happening all over again so we split them up, moving the suspected cheater to the edge of the aisle. It didn't quite deter him, however, and I wound up having to stand over him through the whole test to keep him honest.
Not the best way to spend an exam, I admit, but better than having to flunk them.
An even sadder situation developed, however. In the confusion of the end of the exam period, the professor noticed another cheating couple. (J. and myself were too bombarded with test collection at the time to hone in on them.) She [the prof] snatched their booklets up right away and turned them over to us to look at. The tests were carbon copies of one another. (And I do mean carbon copies; every single word of every single question response was identical. I couldn't believe it... still can't, really.) It's really too bad we didn't catch them earlier, though I think this was due to a very slick system they had worked out, because if we had we could have separated them. By the time we caught them, we had to accept the tests as they were.
The really sad thing is that the girl in question is a hard worker; but she was working for two, and that's just not okay. It must not happen, as the professor said. 185 people took that exam today with the understanding that they would stand or fall on their own merits. It would be a betrayal of their efforts to let something like this go.
And yet... it was really hard to look this girl in the face and tell her that she was taking a zero on the exam (almost ensuring complete failure in the class). She cried.
[sigh]
Well, she'll never do that again.
Some life lessons really suck, hey?
Not the best way to spend an exam, I admit, but better than having to flunk them.
An even sadder situation developed, however. In the confusion of the end of the exam period, the professor noticed another cheating couple. (J. and myself were too bombarded with test collection at the time to hone in on them.) She [the prof] snatched their booklets up right away and turned them over to us to look at. The tests were carbon copies of one another. (And I do mean carbon copies; every single word of every single question response was identical. I couldn't believe it... still can't, really.) It's really too bad we didn't catch them earlier, though I think this was due to a very slick system they had worked out, because if we had we could have separated them. By the time we caught them, we had to accept the tests as they were.
The really sad thing is that the girl in question is a hard worker; but she was working for two, and that's just not okay. It must not happen, as the professor said. 185 people took that exam today with the understanding that they would stand or fall on their own merits. It would be a betrayal of their efforts to let something like this go.
And yet... it was really hard to look this girl in the face and tell her that she was taking a zero on the exam (almost ensuring complete failure in the class). She cried.
[sigh]
Well, she'll never do that again.
Some life lessons really suck, hey?
