Cheating the test system

 by Blogger545
Teachers are cracking down on cheating. Well now it's time to show them what's up. The new way to cheat that is easy. No writing on your arms, hands, hats, shoes, desk, or any of that junk. Well not that your body is junk or anything but you get the point. Now you can take items that you use on tests to cheat. You guessed it...pens.

Materials:
-BiC crystal pens.
-Computer
-Printer
-A cutting utensil
-A few minutes


 
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Step 1: Starting the process

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Well now that you have everything you need, lets get to work.

You need to get your cutting stick and a pen.
That's usually a good place to start.
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windstalker1992 says: Jul 17, 2011. 3:22 PM
my teachers wouldve never fallen for this unfortunatly for me , they all walked around the classroom during important tests
matrygg says: Sep 21, 2009. 11:29 PM
You do know your teachers aren't stupid, right? I mean, professors and teachers read instructables, too. Besides, if all you care about is the grade, then you might as well have not taken the class.
Lawlho in reply to matryggMay 31, 2011. 11:41 AM
Most of my teaches wouldn't notice this. They're all too busy grading tests from the previous classes or sitting. My Honors English Teacher or my Chemistry teacher would be the only two teachers I've ever had who'd catch something like this.
pyro13 says: Dec 6, 2007. 5:53 PM
I like it! Me and my friends have used this before, and it works quite well!
mrmath in reply to pyro13Dec 7, 2007. 3:17 AM
You mean "My friends and I have used this before..." If you had studied for that test, you might now the rule: 1) What would you say without the other person or peole there? "I have used this before." 2) Put the other person or people first. "My friends and I have used this before."
ewhipped in reply to mrmathJan 8, 2011. 7:50 PM
If you had studied for that test, you might KNOW the rule:

Oh and also.....

Nothing sucks more than noticing your own spelling error when telling others about the importance of correct grammar and spelling! "An intranet is a closed network".


hehe

You are officially the smartest man on the interweb.
pyro13 in reply to mrmathDec 7, 2007. 2:01 PM
what?
matrygg in reply to pyro13Sep 21, 2009. 11:40 PM
You just proved his point. What he's saying is that your sentence is poorly written, and it might help if you actually tried to learn instead of cheating your way through school. The reason why your sentence is poorly written is that you actually have a subject that is in two parts: yourself, and your friends. So you can take that subject and split it up into the two component parts, like so: Me have used this before, and it works quite well! My friends have used this before, and it works quite well! The second is all right, but the first makes you sound illiterate. Since the correct way to say the first part is: I have used this before, and it works quite well! which is what he's saying in 1) above. If you recombine the two back into the compound subject, you get: My friends and I have used this before and it works quite well! There is not real reason why it has to be in this order, but it sounds better to us. If you say "I and my friends" it sounds a bit odder than "my friends and I," even though linguistically it's doing the same general thing. I suppose this could be because of the fact that modern English is based on word order rather than inflection, but since you cheat with pens I kind of suspect I just went outside of your comfort zone there. So I'll leave that be.
foxtrot4697 in reply to matryggOct 21, 2009. 6:10 PM
why must people be corrected on the intranet though? I mean, it was just a comment anyways.
mrmath in reply to foxtrot4697Oct 22, 2009. 3:51 AM
1) Sentences begin with capital letters.
2) It's the Internet, not the Intranet.  An Intranet is a close network that offers many of the same services you would see on the Internet, like you would see at a place of business or a college.
3) There is no such word as "anyways".


People must correct on the Internet for many reasons.  In this case, it was because the original correction is a pet-peeve of mine.  It's basic second grade stuff that doesn't require a whole lot of time to learn.

Other people will correct bad grammar on the Internet because it makes them feel superior.  Still others will do it to preserve the language.  Allowing people to be lazy in their writing anywhere encourages them to be lazy in their writing everywhere.
Computothought in reply to mrmathFeb 7, 2011. 5:50 AM
We have both the internet and an intranet.
mrmath in reply to mrmathNov 8, 2009. 5:13 AM
Nothing sucks more than noticing your own spelling error when telling others about the importance of correct grammar and spelling!  "An intranet is a closed network".
foxtrot4697 in reply to mrmathOct 22, 2009. 2:30 PM
1) i dont care how i spell on the intrnet
2)i know that
3)i dont care if its not a word
matrygg in reply to foxtrot4697Oct 22, 2009. 3:39 PM
And yet, you cared enough to comment on my comment, and I don't care about your choice to wallow in ignorance.  Funny how that works, huh?  That comments on the internet aren't just what we care about, so presentation matters?  And your presentation says, frankly, that your opinion can be safely ignored.
foxtrot4697 in reply to matryggOct 23, 2009. 12:52 PM
as did you
matrygg in reply to foxtrot4697Oct 23, 2009. 1:13 PM
Yes, but see, the difference is I don't care that you choose to be ignorant.  I want people to communicate well.  Therefore, your options in talking with are either to communicate well (you know, capitalize your letters, use the proper punctuation, actually be grammatically correct, and use the words you actually mean.  I'm not so petty that I'm going to get on someone's case for typos that are legitimate and not the result of simply being lazy.  I think your behavior has shown that not to be the case with you though, right?) and we can have a reasonable conversation about the efficacy of cheating, communicate in the half-assed, semi-literate manner you have been and I'll keep correcting your lack of capitaliztion, poor grammar, and limited use of punctuation, or you simply not responding at all.  Ultimately, I think the latter option is your best bet, but I'm happy to keep doing this until you either learn or stop responding.
pyro13 in reply to matryggNov 7, 2009. 11:27 PM
Wow all this off of one comment i made.... two years ago...
mrmath in reply to pyro13Nov 8, 2009. 5:13 AM
I guess that means you're now pyro15, huh?
mrmath in reply to mrmathNov 8, 2009. 5:14 AM
PS: That was a joke, not some snide comment about you being young.
matrygg in reply to foxtrot4697Oct 21, 2009. 7:17 PM
Because the person corrected in acting in support of cheating.  Perhaps if they didn't cheat, they wouldn't need correction.

Moreover, any time you write, regardless of the seriousness, you are presenting yourself.  In this case to a group of strangers.  If you want to be taken seriously, you should try to write properly.  It's obvious the cheater above needs correction, no doubt because they cheat instead of learn.  I endeavored to provide that, so they can make a better impression in the future.

Speaking of correction, try to avoid intranet when you mean internet.  Intranets are closed networks.  The internet is what we're on.
foxtrot4697 in reply to matryggApr 3, 2010. 10:43 AM
Sorry, I was going to say interwebs but I forgot the "word".
GnomeMaster in reply to matryggApr 1, 2010. 2:08 PM
Trolling, Flawless victory!
Shadowpom says: Mar 2, 2010. 8:59 PM
This doesn't work when there is a teacher at the back of the room looking for cheaters.
nerdnurture says: Apr 11, 2008. 6:56 PM
I actually teach my kids to do this kind of thing (although this one is new - I think we'll try it next week). Here's the trick: when you are STUDYING for a test, do whatever clever foolish thing you can think of as a good cheating trick. Write on your shoe, on your hand, on a cheat sheet you slip up your sleeve, on the inside of your water bottle label. Whatever. Now carry it around with you for a day or two. Then when the test comes, you can look at your pen, or your shoe, or your water bottle, and imagine the answers written right there. Cool thing is - later after the test is over, you have actually learned something, because you will always associate what you learned with that cheat trick, whereas your cheat trick is positively worthless.
maeve in reply to nerdnurtureFeb 5, 2009. 1:40 PM
ya I agree. Whats the point of going to all this trouble when you could just learn off something in half the time? I have used this pen thing to send secret codes though: write morse code on a piece of paper, rool it up and insert into a pen. Make one for your friend too, then pass notes, in morse, to each other. You eventually learn it off.
jeffconnelly in reply to nerdnurtureAug 23, 2008. 1:30 AM
bravo, I say, Bravo This site thrives because of people like you!
cormac3050 in reply to jeffconnellyAug 29, 2008. 3:27 PM
What he said!
technodude92 in reply to cormac3050Sep 24, 2008. 5:03 PM
amen...
bhaz says: Dec 7, 2008. 6:39 PM
I tried this before when I was younger...didn't turn out too well as I blew the ink thing and ruined everything within distance. I like this idea though, I would have never thought that you could use the angular shape of the plastic to magnify the writing inside! Nerdnurture: I realized the same thing when I tried this...I didn't need anything to cheat with after I realized I learned everything from looking it up and writing it out!
technodude92 says: Sep 24, 2008. 5:12 PM
I knew this guy who would hide notes in his hair...
Tommy3744 says: Sep 12, 2008. 3:25 PM
Great Instructable! I'm wondering if there's a better way to make the end so that my pen doesn't look strange. And so I don't get an BS from this comment, I'll tell you I'm a straight A student I just figured why not do something to make class a little more interesting. I know all the liberal crap they're trying to teach us I just figured a little extra info put in my pen would impress and get me on good term with a new teacher. Is it un-ethical, yes do I care seeing as I already know the answers, not really. I'll say again great Instructable!
przem says: Dec 7, 2007. 5:02 AM
No prosze, prosze... Ktos tu sie posluguje Wordem w jedynie slusznej wersji jezykowej ;-p Pozdrawiam krajana serdecznie! PS: Polskie znaczki pominalem celowo :)
saites2001 in reply to przemDec 7, 2007. 1:18 PM
What language is this suppose to be? Or is it just a bunch of useless gibberish?
cormac3050 in reply to saites2001Aug 29, 2008. 3:30 PM
It's definitely polish
darth2o in reply to saites2001Dec 7, 2007. 4:58 PM
I don't think that comment was very nice. Even gibberish is a language. You just don't have the same norms and values of that language.
saites2001 in reply to darth2oDec 7, 2007. 11:05 PM
I didn't say it wasn't normal, I said it seems like a bunch of useless gibberish. the 'language' Gibberish differs from the general term (which was in use long before the 'language' ever appeared) gibberish, which means incomprehensible. My statement wasn't ethnocentric, it was a point that the language doesn't translate from Spanish, French, Russian, or many other languages. As a result, I asked what language it was, then I asked if it was in fact just a bunch of useless incomprehensible speech. Do YOU know what language it was?
Daykun in reply to saites2001Dec 8, 2007. 5:58 AM
I can see clear signs that this is a language, and since the word "polskie" is in the text and the text somehow *feels* polish if you read it out loud, I would guess... it's polish ;)
saites2001 in reply to DaykunDec 8, 2007. 10:51 AM
A few of the words do translate from Polish, but the majority of the text does not. I wonder if it is just a very difficult language to automatically translate from (I've tried three Polish to English translators) or what . . . Just wanted to know what it said.
Daykun in reply to saites2001Dec 8, 2007. 12:01 PM
The problem with automatic translators is, that they don't capture misspellings and dialects. And as most slavic states are pretty rural they tend to have many dialects. Actually, this could be any west-slavic language, but I still guess it's polish because of the "polskie"... I have a friend who speaks a little polish, I'll ask her the next time she's online...
przem in reply to DaykunDec 9, 2007. 4:54 PM
This whole text is in Polish. The tricky part is that I didn't use Polish diacritic marks. So probably no automatic translator will manage with this text. But i can translate it for You ;-) It says (more or less): "Well, well... Somebody here uses the one and only right language version of Word ;-P Greetings for my compatriot. PS. I omitted diacritic marks intentionally" So thats it :-) BTW: Polish is my native language :)
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