Answer for question 4502.

[jazzy_dave]

[Error: unknown template qotd]I never have cheated at any test in my life. I prefer to parade or show what i know than what i don't know.

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[kabuldur.livejournal.com]

I have never cheated at a test, either.

I always tried my best (except for Home Economics) but I couldn't really parade my knowledge :P

[quizzical-myth.livejournal.com]

i will admit with a heavy heart that once when i was 8 years old on a friday i cheated on a spelling test as i am awful at spelling and i didnt want to spend another play time in having to write an rewrite my words , i had tried so hard at home but it just wouldnt go in .... that weekend i felt awful i couldnt eat couldnt sleep and ended up breaking down and admitting it all to my dad ... on the monday i went into school and i admitted everything , i stayed in at lunch times and took on the responsibility for my actions and had two tests the following week ... i have never and will never cheat at a test again it was a heart breaking time for me ...

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

When yup are eight i can understand it more. But not for after eleven.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

If I am being honest, Yes, I have cheated on a test. I think it was 7th grade science. I missed a test, and so I was making it up during study hall. I was sitting in the teacher's office taking the test. I got totally stumped on a question and snooped through some text books in his office.
Cheating obviously stuck with me all this time that I still remember doing it. :o

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

I don't think I have; can't recall any occasion when I did - I was good at tests. I cheated at homework quite a bit though, including writing several book reports on books that didn't actually exist, and I wrote other peoples' papers for cash all through high school and college: "A B or better, or your money back."

EDIT: re: how I felt about it: I don't think cheating on tests ever occurred to me. How would one even go about it? The probability of getting caught would far out-weigh the probability of getting a significantly better grade that way.

Homework was 'fair game'. There could be no 'cheating' on homework because homework itself was cheating me of my time away from school. I thought this as a student, and as a now-retired teacher, I still say that homework is wrong and harmful: that high school students should have no more than one hour of homework per school night, and younger pupils should have no mandatory homework at all. (Optional extra-credit is okay in moderation, especially if self-chosen.)

I'm still pretty amused about those reports on imaginary books, and wish I'd kept them. If I had it to do over, I'd still have my little report-writing business, but I would charge more, because $2 a page was ridiculously low even in the 70's. I feel no guilt for thus subverting a system I view as blatantly corrupt and broken: if learning to write was the true goal, rather than getting the grade, it would never occur to anyone to hire a ghost-writer to do their essays.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Brilliant. Loved reading this!

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

In my memory, I have not cheated on a test.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Nor me, but occasionally on homework i did.

[eneit.livejournal.com]

I can't cheat. Not on tests, not anywhere. If I get out to the car, and discover an item the kids have picked up that I didn't pay for, I go back in and pay, with apologies. My Grandmother raised me with the adage that cheaters really only cheat themselves in the long run.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear!!

*HUGS*