By its ok to cheat!? - 20/02/2013 21:52 - United States - Brisbane

Today, I got my results on a recent, important midterm. During the exam, I'd noticed my instructor had accidentally left an answers page in the test packet, so being honest, I didn't look at them. It turns out she did it on purpose to help us pass. I failed. FML
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TheWindowLicker 13

whats the point of a test if youre given the answers....unless im missing something?

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Atchoo 8

I wonder what the dean/principal/program director or other appropriate authority in the school would have to say about those testing methods......

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vanaathiel 13

1) Good for you for being honest 2) That is one horrible teacher, I would take this up with the principal/school board/etc because that is not teaching.

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disGRUNTled123 2

If your not cheating your not trying.

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Erzebet_fml 7

*you're. Both times. We can see you practice what you peach.

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mattuti 8

YDI. If there's an answers page in the test packet, use it. Good for you for being honest and not looking at the answers, even though they were right in front of you (I hope you realize how stupid this sounds) but please, don't go complaining afterwards that you failed the test.

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THExistentialist 13

if you are not able to laugh at other people whining, FML is not the right website for you.

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BigSexy123 11

Wow. You're an asshole, 54. I hope you feel validated.

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KweenChelly 6

Man it sucks when being honest n good doesn't help you at all...

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musiciangirl591 16

good for you! its so refreshing to see that people (other than me) don't resort to academic dishonesty to get their name on the dean's list! this will all pay off in the future, good luck on the next exam and don't give up!

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Chartreuseish 2

I'm sorry that you failed your exam, but in a way you failed honorably. After all it was only a test! Maybe it just means that whatever the exam was about wasn't for you. Better to know now than later on in life when your trying to succeed in a job that doesn't work for you. Or, If your like me and suffer from Anxiety, it doesn't really mean you have no idea what your doing. Whenever I have an exam/test I fail. Not because I don't know what I'm doing, but because I have an anxiety attack and forget everything. Had the questions been asked casually and not on a test/exam I would have done well. I'm only saying this to point out that because exams and tests don't actually assess students, and find out what they know. It shows which students can deal with stressfull situations or random facts, and which students panic and have attacks. As Albert Einstein said "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." Please keep this in mind. Of course everyone is different, but this IS now it is for some of us.

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BigSexy123 11

I have the same issues with anxiety as you do, and I agree with your sentiments. As for you, OP, you did your best to do the right thing, and you still got screwed. It doesn't reflect badly on you; it happens. My question, though, is why did she not explain that prior to the test, unless she was using the answers to up the class average to make herself look good? Is there any other explanation for that which doesn't make the teacher out to be cheating as well?

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NOACCEPTANCE772 21

Same thing happened to me but I cheated and passed :

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vbmg152 18

This is our new education system for you! Our tax dollars hard at work! They really don't have much choice with the no child left behind laws. Which means, my kid gets a subpar education while some other kid that doesn't deserve it gets passing grades! My kid has an IQ over 250 & he's been bored to death in school for years! Thank God he's a senior this year & can move on to college!

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Shrike 23

I'd call bullshit even if you'd said his IQ is over 150. The 250 claim just pushes your comment into "so moronic it's not even funny" territory. You're really lying to a bunch of internet strangers about your "kid"'s IQ level just for self-validation? That's sad.

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CanCann 16

You failed on the exam but you passed the test of ethics. Congratulations op!

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RedPillSucks 31

Sorry you have a teacher that sucks so badly she needed to supply the answers to the test. There's no excuse for a situation where most of the kids fail a test or the test needs to be dumbed down for kids to pass. This is college, not high school. Most of the kids there (at least by their sophomore/junior year) want to learn.

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