A few weeks ago i took a test in computer class at school. When i was done with the test i was simply supposed to send it to my teacher and i thought that was the end of it. But today when i went to class the teacher told me that the test i sent was in someone elses name and it looked like i had cheated. The test belongs to some girl who took it the day before i did and ive never even met her. The worst thing about this is that i could get expelled over a damn computer error.
Iceland-Thule wrote:A few weeks ago i took a test in computer class at school. When i was done with the test i was simply supposed to send it to my teacher and i thought that was the end of it. But today when i went to class the teacher told me that the test i sent was in someone elses name and it looked like i had cheated. The test belongs to some girl who took it the day before i did and ive never even met her. The worst thing about this is that i could get expelled over a damn computer error.
Expelled?! Really?
I got accused of cheating once, and all i got was a zero on the test. Are you sure you aren't over dramatizing this?
Hail Rhodmhire! "I was Anti-Obama before it was Cool." CommunistSovietAmerica's Factbook Motto: "For The Motherland!" Defcon: 1 2 3 4 5
Rhodmire Wrote 78.2% of all statistics are made up 25.6% of the time, but only if 92.2503% of the original 78.2% were made after 54% of those who took Statistics Courses agreed that 72.8.2% of all statistics are made up 25.6% of the time.
To All: We are NOT communist anymore! We have had a regime change !!!
Iceland-Thule wrote:A few weeks ago i took a test in computer class at school. When i was done with the test i was simply supposed to send it to my teacher and i thought that was the end of it. But today when i went to class the teacher told me that the test i sent was in someone elses name and it looked like i had cheated. The test belongs to some girl who took it the day before i did and ive never even met her. The worst thing about this is that i could get expelled over a damn computer error.
Expelled?! Really?
I got accused of cheating once, and all i got was a zero on the test. Are you sure you aren't over dramatizing this?
No man. People at my school have been expelled for cheating
Last edited by Iceland-Thule on Tue Nov 03, 2009 5:22 am, edited 1 time in total.
Offer to take an on the spot retest to prove you have no need to cheat.
Sometimes as I'm flying through space after a flying tackle that has propelled my best friend and me off a bridge over a stretch of dark chest-deep estuarial mud I take the time to wonder if there is more to life than mud, tacos, groin kicks, pies, theoretical physics, clowning, teaching my children all I know about mischief and personal self-destruction. Then shortly before we all but disappear in the black muck, I remember wedgies.
Reminds me of when I took my GNVQ in ICT at my comprehensive school. About a year after I'd taken it, I got a letter through from the exam board saying that I'd, in fact, not passed it and they were taking it away from me - even though I've got the shiny certificate which said I'd passed it.
Frankly, I didn't care about it then and don't know - it was a doss subject, as I already knew how to handle a PC. The idea that they discovered it when the chief examiner used mine as an example, only to find it wasn't up to scratch, keeps me amused, though, as it would have made him or her look like a massive fool.
A few weeks into secondary school I got 100 on a Biology test.
There were accusations of cheating, mainly because the teacher couldn't believe that the student who was staring off into space the whole class was at the opposite end of the results to that expected. Another influence was perhaps the fact that they gave us an IQ test (the scheme was abandoned quickly when it was shown to have no predictive power whatsoever) in the first few weeks to set targets for our grades, and since I'm crap at the whole rotating shapes thing I came bottom of the class with a score of seventy or eighty something.
Natch, the accusation was quickly withdrawn, due to the complete lack of evidence and all that.
I never got another 100, sadly. And teachers continued to believe that I was stupid, as with the Physics teacher who predicted me a D at GCSE, only for me to then get an A*. I must give off a dumb vibe or something?
Last edited by Dumb Ideologies on Tue Nov 03, 2009 5:40 am, edited 1 time in total.
QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRAAAAAAAAAAANDUM!
Economic Left/Right: -5.12 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.49
I was accused one of cheating on a French test vocabulary. Then again, I was. I hated French class. It was only grade 5 though. No one really gives a damn at that level as long as you say you'll never do it again. That was the only time I was ever accused. Conveniently, the only time I ever cheated. (Though I had managed for two tests before that with no one noticing).
To the OP: you should ask for a retest and say that you accept that the potential computer glitch was the cause of it. In any event, I wish you luck in fighting for the grade you earned honestly.
The Proletariat Congress Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, 10/11/1884 - 11/07/1962
West Failure wrote:I would have thought that as it was a computer based test they would be able to tell.
Don't know how they did it but the girl might have saved once to the C drive(assuming while it was blank) and he found that test and took it. That would give his test file some stuff from her account.
Don B. Kates, Jr. : "A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity."
Dumb Ideologies wrote:A few weeks into secondary school I got 100 on a Biology test.
There were accusations of cheating, mainly because the teacher couldn't believe that the student who was staring off into space the whole class was at the opposite end of the results to that expected. Another influence was perhaps the fact that they gave us an IQ test (the scheme was abandoned quickly when it was shown to have no predictive power whatsoever) in the first few weeks to set targets for our grades, and since I'm crap at the whole rotating shapes thing I came bottom of the class with a score of seventy or eighty something.
Natch, the accusation was quickly withdrawn, due to the complete lack of evidence and all that.
I never got another 100, sadly. And teachers continued to believe that I was stupid, as with the Physics teacher who predicted me a D at GCSE, only for me to then get an A*. I must give off a dumb vibe or something?
Could it be the "Dumb" part from Ideologies?
Field Marshmallow of the Pantheon Zeppy, 1st Duke of Jack Daniels and Purples Nurples
Dumb Ideologies wrote:A few weeks into secondary school I got 100 on a Biology test.
There were accusations of cheating, mainly because the teacher couldn't believe that the student who was staring off into space the whole class was at the opposite end of the results to that expected. Another influence was perhaps the fact that they gave us an IQ test (the scheme was abandoned quickly when it was shown to have no predictive power whatsoever) in the first few weeks to set targets for our grades, and since I'm crap at the whole rotating shapes thing I came bottom of the class with a score of seventy or eighty something.
Natch, the accusation was quickly withdrawn, due to the complete lack of evidence and all that.
I never got another 100, sadly. And teachers continued to believe that I was stupid, as with the Physics teacher who predicted me a D at GCSE, only for me to then get an A*. I must give off a dumb vibe or something?
I gave off an inattentive underachiever vibe. More than once, teachers have tried to prove that I'm not learning because I'm too busy reading a good novel while they teach.
I recall one occasion where the teacher used a computer-generated grid to teach her class on plotting functions. The grid had dots and one by one students were giving her equations to enter that would plot lines in an attempt to connect dots. Some got two, some got three. Then seeing me busy reading 'The Stand' by Stephen King, the teacher called on me to enter a function. I took a look at the screen and began reciting the most complicated function yet. It plotted a curve that hit six dots. Finally she left me alone to continue my book in peace.
Sometimes as I'm flying through space after a flying tackle that has propelled my best friend and me off a bridge over a stretch of dark chest-deep estuarial mud I take the time to wonder if there is more to life than mud, tacos, groin kicks, pies, theoretical physics, clowning, teaching my children all I know about mischief and personal self-destruction. Then shortly before we all but disappear in the black muck, I remember wedgies.
Dumb Ideologies wrote:A few weeks into secondary school I got 100 on a Biology test.
There were accusations of cheating, mainly because the teacher couldn't believe that the student who was staring off into space the whole class was at the opposite end of the results to that expected. Another influence was perhaps the fact that they gave us an IQ test (the scheme was abandoned quickly when it was shown to have no predictive power whatsoever) in the first few weeks to set targets for our grades, and since I'm crap at the whole rotating shapes thing I came bottom of the class with a score of seventy or eighty something.
Natch, the accusation was quickly withdrawn, due to the complete lack of evidence and all that.
I never got another 100, sadly. And teachers continued to believe that I was stupid, as with the Physics teacher who predicted me a D at GCSE, only for me to then get an A*. I must give off a dumb vibe or something?
I gave off an inattentive underachiever vibe. More than once, teachers have tried to prove that I'm not learning because I'm too busy reading a good novel while they teach.
I recall one occasion where the teacher used a computer-generated grid to teach her class on plotting functions. The grid had dots and one by one students were giving her equations to enter that would plot lines in an attempt to connect dots. Some got two, some got three. Then seeing me busy reading 'The Stand' by Stephen King, the teacher called on me to enter a function. I took a look at the screen and began reciting the most complicated function yet. It plotted a curve that hit six dots. Finally she left me alone to continue my book in peace.
Shes probably angry that you now achieved so much.
Field Marshmallow of the Pantheon Zeppy, 1st Duke of Jack Daniels and Purples Nurples
I'd say offer to do a retest and as an add on you could even invite the teacher to watch. They may decline the offer but the offer itself could get you off the hook.
Iceland-Thule wrote:A few weeks ago i took a test in computer class at school. When i was done with the test i was simply supposed to send it to my teacher and i thought that was the end of it. But today when i went to class the teacher told me that the test i sent was in someone elses name and it looked like i had cheated. The test belongs to some girl who took it the day before i did and ive never even met her. The worst thing about this is that i could get expelled over a damn computer error.
Clearly you need to make the lass renounce her own test, under duress if necessary.
At my college we still do a majority of all our work on portfolio, although I am starting to worry since one of my subjects has converted to the MAPs system, a kind of e-portfolio system.
Lunatic Goofballs wrote:Offer to take an on the spot retest to prove you have no need to cheat.
Exactly. Be totally honest and open with your instructors. Tell them you did not cheat and that you think it must have been some mistake. That you would like the chance to prove your mastery of the material. Encourage the teacher to talk with you about the material so you can prove your mastery of the concepts in conversation
The last thing your instructor wants to hear is that you cheated. If you can show that you did not and are actually interested in the material then it will make the teacher happy. The teacher wants to believe that you did not cheat. You just have to give him or her a reason to think what he or she already wants to think.
Dumb Ideologies wrote:A few weeks into secondary school I got 100 on a Biology test.
There were accusations of cheating, mainly because the teacher couldn't believe that the student who was staring off into space the whole class was at the opposite end of the results to that expected. Another influence was perhaps the fact that they gave us an IQ test (the scheme was abandoned quickly when it was shown to have no predictive power whatsoever) in the first few weeks to set targets for our grades, and since I'm crap at the whole rotating shapes thing I came bottom of the class with a score of seventy or eighty something.
Natch, the accusation was quickly withdrawn, due to the complete lack of evidence and all that.
I never got another 100, sadly. And teachers continued to believe that I was stupid, as with the Physics teacher who predicted me a D at GCSE, only for me to then get an A*. I must give off a dumb vibe or something?
People who never do any work in class and say they never do revision, and then somehow get top marks, aggrivate me. How do you do it?
Shebu wrote:History is written by winners. French History books are blank from cover to cover.
Dumb Ideologies wrote:A few weeks into secondary school I got 100 on a Biology test.
There were accusations of cheating, mainly because the teacher couldn't believe that the student who was staring off into space the whole class was at the opposite end of the results to that expected. Another influence was perhaps the fact that they gave us an IQ test (the scheme was abandoned quickly when it was shown to have no predictive power whatsoever) in the first few weeks to set targets for our grades, and since I'm crap at the whole rotating shapes thing I came bottom of the class with a score of seventy or eighty something.
Natch, the accusation was quickly withdrawn, due to the complete lack of evidence and all that.
I never got another 100, sadly. And teachers continued to believe that I was stupid, as with the Physics teacher who predicted me a D at GCSE, only for me to then get an A*. I must give off a dumb vibe or something?
People who never do any work in class and say they never do revision, and then somehow get top marks, aggrivate me. How do you do it?
She revises the fuck out of material. You should have seen her a couple of weeks before her last set of exams, from 8am-10pm for more than a fortnight she'd be studying shit with very few breaks inbetween.
by Iceland-Thule » Tue Nov 03, 2009 5:14 am 
(Though I had managed for two tests before that with no one noticing).
