I probably cheated about once a week in high school. I had no objection to cheating and would have helped anyone else I could. It was us against THEM, man!
The worst part is I was smart enough to pass tests, but I was too lazy to study, too insecure to feel confident, and too thrilled at the idea of getting away with something. Since I never got caught at least I was good at something. Or I had teachers who just didn’t care. That’s more likely.
I had to learn them in school, but we were taught a song so it made it easy. I can still sing it to this day.
I took Chinese in high school and had a terrible time remembering the characters. I would write them down in my spiral and then when it was test time, I’d rip off the top page and read the indentations on the page underneath it.
Yeah, every once in awhile. Never the finals or mid-terms, but pop quizzes, homework, that sort of thing. Sure. I’d borrow people’s homeworks, they’d borrow mine. Let’s just say we had reciprocal agreements with certain students where we’d divy up the work.
Tough poll since you had to select only one.
I helped other people out more out of a sense of adventure than anything else. Especially in my sophomore year in HS. We had this crazy math teacher for whom none of the students had any respect. Basically, the whole year was spent testing his limits and seeing how much shit we could get away with. I can remember once finishing the test early, and then standing in the hallway with the answers held up against the window in the door so a buddy could copy them. We were pretty shameless.
I let my younger sister copy my old school papers. She wasn’t too bright. I gave her one paper to use, and she actually incorporated the title of the paper into the first sentence, not realizing what a “title” was. It made absolutely no grammatical sense whatsoever. I couldn’t stop laughing for days after I proof read it.
I never cheated. Not because I was an especially good or honest person, but because of ego.
ETA: As I think on it, I did gather the insect samples one of my sisters needed for her biology classes. She did all the actual classifying, though. Does that count?
Very similar: our sophomore Algebra II teacher was the most incompetent teacher I ever encountered. She put posters with formulas all over the room (and told us not to look at them during tests). She taught using a transparency project, only she’d stand between the projector and the screen, so you could try to read the notes off her ample bosom or not at all. She mumbled as she wrote on the projector. There was no way to learn from her in her class. At the same time, she was totally clueless about what students were doing. We’d get up mid-test, pass a paper to a friend to get them to write down the answer, and go retrieve it a few minutes later. She knew cheating was happening (probably because someone in admin told her), but she had no skills for stopping it. The class was like something from Catch-22.
I never cheated on a test or quiz. But from time to time, I copied chemistry lab reports from other guys, and sometimes let other guys copy Latin work from me.
UK. I once cheated on a 40-question multiple-choice Physics test (not part of the official exams). Someone had got the answers the day before so I learned the entire answer sequence from A to E by rote. But… when in the exam I did the entire test myself and at the end checked my answers against the cheat-sheet. I had got 100%, so I went and deliberately screwed up one of the answers so it didn’t look suspicious. Which was dumb really as I would have had a perfect score if I hadn’t felt guilty.
When I was at Uni I copied the major themes and structure of an essay I hadn’t had time to write from a friend’s essay the year before. I rewrote it and ‘improved’ it a bit though, and where he had got a C, I got an A.
Never cheated on any other test or exam.
Don’t you mean three times or FEWER?
I cheated on a test exactly once. It was the first year Russian was offered in our school, and I don’t think any of us understood how hard it would be, especially the vocabulary. Several of us just got behind and were having lots of difficulty catching up. So I resorted to cheating on a vocabulary test. I eventually did get caught up, and managed to get a non-cheating B in the course, but it wasn’t easy.
I cheated all the time in high school. Mostly, that meant letting the cute boys copy off me, but I wasn’t above very blatantly asking a friend for help on a test, either. I think teachers were inclined to let honors students get away with pretty much anything. Whatever. I’ve never lost any sleep over it. I can’t imagine that not cheating would have hurt my GPA much, but it might have put a crimp in my social life.