Cheating

Mr. Ward｜had a single ‵pet peeve - cheating.

Mr. Ward once told me of ‵some of the ways｜students have tried to cheat. The list sounds like a ‵resume｜for the movie Dumb and Dumber.

1. Student A intentionally｜" ‵drops" his pencil｜an unusually far distance from his desk. So he ‵stands up｜and waltzes slowly across the room｜to retrieve it. On the way｜he passes an ‵innocent victim｜whose paper is left slightly in the open. He ‵bends over slowly to get the pencil｜and ‵walks back slowly glancing at papers left and right. The ‵funny thing is｜during multiple-choice objective tests; the pencils seemed to fall ‵quite a lot. ‵Whereas short answer｜and proof tests｜had some magical spell｜over the pencils to keep them from falling.

2.The ‵old cheat sheet｜has been used for decades. The ‵idea｜is you get a piece of paper｜and you write down all the formulas, rules, notes, definitions, and everything else｜that you will need for the test. And some how get ‵access to it, during the test. The most ‵common way｜is with a tiny bit of paper taped to the inside of the kid's palm. Mr. Ward told me｜that ‵one time the student gave the test with the hand｜with the cheat sheet ‵stuck to it and Mr. Ward saw it instantly.

3. Two students｜who were very good friends｜decided that they ‵didn't want to study for a test｜and they came up with an idea. ‵One student remembers half of the formulas｜and the other remembers the other half. So when it ‵came to test time, they would each take their half of the test｜and then tell the other person the answers. So what did they ‵do? The answer｜was ‵Morse code, with pencils.②One kid would tap his pencil lightly five times｜ ‵indicating he needed the answer to number 5. Then the other kid would tap｜what ever the answer was. Furthermore, they had a ‵whole system worked out for fractions, decimals, equations, and everything else.
作弊

考场上作弊是沃兹先生最讨厌的事。

沃兹先生给我讲了一些学生作弊的手法。听那些故事就好像是在看听《傻瓜和大傻瓜》的概述。

镜头一：A学生考试时，故意让手中的铅笔"掉"到地上，因为是故意的，所以滚得很远。于是，他大大方方地站起来，慢慢地横穿教室去捡铅笔。在去的路上，某个无辜的受害者的卷子微微的露在外面就被他"瞄"见了。然后，缓慢地蹲下身去捡铅笔。在回座位的路上，又是左顾右盼。奇怪的是，如果考试是客观的多项选择题，"掉"铅笔的人特别多；如果考简答题或论证题，大家的铅笔就像着了魔一样，都不"掉"了。

镜头二：抄小纸条这个伎俩已经有很多年历史了。在考试之前，把与考试有关的公式、法则、定义等等，密密麻麻地写在一张小纸条上。把小纸条顺利地带进考场的办法是多种多样的，最流行的方法是把小纸条藏在手心里。沃兹先生告诉我有一次，一位学生交卷时忘了左手心的秘密，用粘了小纸条的左手把试卷递给老师，让他抓了个正着。

镜头三：两个好朋友不想为了考试而复习了，于是他们想出了一个办法：一人记一半内容。在考试时你做上半部，我做下半部，然后交换答案。为了对方得到答案，他们竟发明了一套完整的密码系统，配合铅笔使用。②一位需要知道第五题的答案时，他就用铅笔在桌子上轻轻敲五下，另一位回敲两次--表示答案是B。更有趣的是，他们竟然还为分数、小数、方程式等都配了特殊的密码。