And what about cribs?

Have you ever thought about the fact that all teachers are divided into: "those who give to write off" and "those who do not give off to write off".



Once I sincerely believed that the teacher does not see the hands nervously wandering under the desk, does not hear the rustling of prepared spurs and the crackle of pages torn from the textbooks, does not notice that your perfectly written answer does not fit with the cowardly confusing story that you say out loud.







Now everything is simple in my head.



I believe that a student / student using cheat sheets in the eyes of teachers looks like this.




If you are lucky and you surrender to the first type of teachers, then most likely you will leave the exam with a good mark and a cool story about spurs, which you will then tell your grandchildren.



17 types of cheat sheets



It’s high time to rank cribs as a separate type of creativity and recognize it as a separate type of school-university art. You can go further, and highlight the profession of spurs-coach.



A survey of the Internet and a survey of respondents Dodo made it clear that there are a huge number of spurs in the world, so I selected for you 17 of the most interesting, nostalgic and emotional.



1. Microspurs by hand (classic cheat sheets and accordions)



They are small abstract abstracts written in small handwriting on small pieces of paper.



Thanks to magicians
He made a lot of spurs in the form of small books that fit in the palm of your hand. Spurs themselves on exams always held in his right hand with a pen. He stole this idea from magicians: they use a magic wand to hold something else in the same hand, and the audience does not pierce it. In my case, this also worked. Once the teacher suspected that something was wrong and said, well, that's it, give me your spur here. I showed him “empty” hands, the left one is really empty, and the right one is a pen. The teacher did not realize that there was also a cheat sheet in the same fist.





Not caught, not a thief
On the line-up exam, the spurs were in the sleeve, when he had already passed the exam and held out the student’s grade-book, they all flew in a pile from the sleeve to her on the table. Her answer was: "Not caught - not a thief." She put my mark and I left.



Wind traitor
I studied well until about the middle of the first year of the institute; I took tests well and so on. But then something went wrong ... Meanwhile, the next exam in higher mathematics arrived, which I was preparing for last night, got drunk before turning blue coffee, couldn’t fall asleep at all, went to the exam in the morning and just flunked him.



But I prepared myself well for the retake, having sewn a rather short skirt of a pocket to the inside and stuffed spurs, including cardboard ones, which my classmates, who had already left the exam, kindly gave me.



There was Syktyvkar heat on the street, and the windows in the office were open. I was asked to sit near the window so I was not hot. The teacher did not pay attention to me at all, perhaps because my appearance did not suggest the presence of spurs. I calmly wrote off everything, but part of the spurs fell out of the hidden pockets of the skirt to my feet. They could not be returned to their place. I decided that the only way to get rid of the evidence was to throw the spurs out the open window, which I did. Before I could exhale, when the wind rose, and my evidence began to flock to fly back into me through the same open window. The guy who was sitting behind me laughed very much. By some miracle, the teacher did not notice what was happening or pretended not to notice. And I continued to take the exam.



2. Gigashpurs by hand



The same abstracts, only written in regular handwriting on A4 paper.



Paper airbag
Once I came to the exam in high boots (these are such fur boots to the knees). The victory was that A4 spurs for all 55 tickets were placed in these mehovunts. True, I moved after that with a characteristic rustling. But there was also a chagrin: when I sat at my desk, the treacherous boots slipped away, exposing my paper airbag! The teacher came across very understanding and sympathetic, although maybe he was just blind? In short, I got my top five, despite the profane preparation for cheating.



3. Bombs



Ready-made answers to tickets written by hand and delivered at the right time from the most secluded places.



Not all bombs explode twice
Once I made "invisible bombs" - standard notebook sheets on which I printed decisions in light gray on the printer. The sheets just lay on the table. Just in case, a virgin clean sheet lay on top. When there was a need to peek, I busily shifted the sheets from place to place and spied. I have a ride like this, but my friend, to whom I transferred my treasures, burned and drove out.



4. Printed microspurs



Ready answers for tickets printed on a very small scale.



At the limit of human eyes
When I was at university, personal computers, printers were no longer a rarity. Thanks to these wonders of our time, it was possible to make cribs in .doc in third-type font ... Happiness, delight, all the material fits on a pair of A4 sheets. It was just that poor calculations let us down: it turned out that human eyes are not so good fellows as .doc and they can’t read the third-largest font.



5. Spurs that the teacher resolved



The format of such cheat sheets is determined by the teacher:





Everything, as agreed
When we took the exam, the teacher said that on the tickets you can write what you want as tips. But he did not think that we would be able to fit all the answers to the tickets on one A4 sheet, with all the evidence. There was nothing to object, everything was as agreed, so it did.







The first spur helped me write a teacher, part-time mother
My mother taught me to write my first spur, because she did not share my zeal to learn everything and twisted her finger at the temple. By the way, my mother was a teacher in my own school.



In the 8th grade, my mother brought me some innovative pen from which it was possible to pull out a piece of paper, and she rolled back automatically. Again, my mother bought me invisible pens for the same purpose.



6. Textbooks and GDZ



It all depends on the degree of your arrogance, not everyone can write off a book during an exam.



Do not trust the inside pockets of jackets
I wrote off the control in the school from the state security service, which was stored in a jacket. And when I went to take the work, the book fell right on the floor with a huge bang. There was an awkward pause, and, of course, a deuce.



7. On the edges of pens, pencils



We have no history of people with such stories, but there is a bike on the Internet about a student who came to the exam with 55 identical pens (according to the number of tickets). The ticket number was indicated on the cap, and the answer was scratched out on the sides of the pen.



8. On the lines



This cheat sheet format is suitable for items where the correct formula is a good clue. They can be stacked on rulers and erasers.



9. Chocolates, juices



There’s enough for your imagination: you can get confused and print a spur instead of a chocolate bar, or you can just come with a fake juice.



The Secret Life of Juice
I do spurs like this: buy children's juices the size of my old phone, prepare a spur in some editor. Then I drink juice, make a door in a pack of juice, fill the cavity with cotton, and insert the phone there. At the exam, I pretend that I am drinking juice, and I carefully open the door and leaf through the cheat sheets.



10. Cribs on human limbs: palms



Unfortunately, the area of ​​a person’s palm is quite a finite resource, a lot of information cannot be placed. Moreover, people are used to sweating as soon as they start to worry, which means that important knowledge can be spread. So this type of cheat sheet has more minuses than pluses, and quite fawn.



11. Cribs on human limbs: knees



Another thing is female knees! You can immediately see the advantage compared to the previous paragraph: a large area, the risk of lubrication is almost gone, and not every teacher will ask to lift up her skirt before admitting to the exam.



Cook your knees in the summer
I always wrote on my knees, put on a dress with buttons and unzipped under my desk. All Spanish was surrendered only like that. It was hard in the winter session.



12. Cribs in push-button phones



In them, you calmly route without getting your hand out of your pocket.



NOKIA E52
When I entered the university, I had a wonderful NOKIA E52 push-button smartphone. The tactile feel of the buttons allowed you to search for the desired ticket in the .doc file, while holding your hand in your pocket. With the advent of touch phones, life became complicated - in order to find something on them, you had to look at the screen and press the necessary buttons.



13. Cribs in touch phones



Until the teachers didn’t get it
I brought a smartphone for the exam. The teachers were aged and did not know that it was possible to download textbooks and any answers on a smartphone. Right in front of him, I copied all the answers and was happy. So he passed psychology and pedagogy.



14. Hands-free and micro-earphones



The technique is simple: stick the earphone in your ear, pull the ticket, choose a comfortable place. Make a call to a friend who carefully dictates your answer. Rumor has it that technology has reached such proportions that it’s even possible to pass oral exams in such a way.



Buying such a headphone for a one-time promotion may seem too expensive an event, so you can use the rental services. Available for all cities with a million-plus population, the rental price starts at 300 rubles per day.

Here and here .



Set aside 1000 rubles for a doctor
The earpiece consists of two magnets that are thrown directly into the auricle and fall on the eardrum, and a loop of wire that is worn around the neck like a chain. The wire connects to the phone (via Bluetooth or through the audio jack). The phone sends a signal through the wire, the current passing through the circuit generates a magnetic field. Magnets vibrate in a magnetic field, turning the eardrum into a sound source. The process of installing and removing magnets is very unpleasant. I tried such a scheme once, it was hard to hear with the exam I managed without an earpiece.



And one girl from the stream managed to get one of the magnets only from the surgeon in the hospital.



15. Spurs in players and e-books



Spurs in players and e-books flourished ten years ago, when teachers still did not know that txt formats could be written into these little things. But the flowering and sunset of cheat sheets in smart watches was swift, like a flight of the Chelyabinsk meteorite.



16. Smart-peresmart watches



I suggest to look at this type of cheat sheet. This is a cheat sheet with a special display, the text on which is visible only when viewed in special polarized glasses. Glasses are supplied. Externally, the screen looks black, others do not see the image on it, because think it's off.



17. Cheat sheets on the verge of my humanitarian fiction



I will just leave these three cases here.



Case No. 1. At the beginning of the memorized direct url test, the program exe was downloaded from Dropbox ...
On the networks in the university there were tests in the form of tests that had to be taken in a computer room. Questions and answers were known in advance. Moreover, the answers were absolute game with a bunch of meaningless numbers, which was disgusting to learn. My friend and I had a program in which all questions were driven.



How it looked: at the beginning of the test for memorized direct urls from Dropbox, the program exe’s download was downloaded, it started. The program itself was without display in the taskbar or tray, and is usually generally invisible. By pressing the space bar, it appeared as a translucent window or hid again. And she tracked all the additions to the clipboard, trying to find suitable questions among the questions sewn into it.



That is, it was necessary to read the tests, highlighting part of the question between the cases, copy the selected part. While the verifier was far away, it was necessary to click on the space bar and see a window in which there was already the correct answer to this question. And then press the spacebar again to hide the program window. It worked great and helped pass those moronic tests.



Case No. 2. It’s very convenient to just sit and cheat
Once the guys from the group sawed off the spurs into a program that looked like a console file manager like FAR Manager, well, and “threw it into the network”, into which a computer class went, where we passed the exam. It was sooo easy to just sit and cheat!



Case No. 3. If you are an IT specialist.
This story is not entirely about spurs, but about how easy it is to take assignments during the semester if you are an IT specialist.



One teacher, coming on a pair, always sat down at one computer and inserted a hard disk with a file, where they are marked with the completed tasks.



So, we put an ftp server on this computer, and calmly from our places we set tasks for ourselves. Everyone got 5, except for the guy who basically wanted to pass everything himself. Well, to merge in the same way all tasks with answers from a flash drive from a teacher in information security is priceless.



The end



After all of the above, I have only two questions: “Are there any spurs that teachers still haven’t guessed about?” And “Is it hard for contemporary pupils / students to live hard?”



PS I consider it my duty to note that in no way do I promote cheat sheets and cheating as a worthy type of behavior. I know perfectly well that fundamental knowledge is the basis of professionalism.



PPS Watch the French movie “Dukes in Exams”. It was released in 1980, and students and teachers have not changed since then.



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