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Cheating in end of year exams

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Notrightbutwhattodo · 24/05/2018 19:17

DS is currently doing end of year 8 tests. He came home today and told me most of his form has cheated on the subject they did today. Apparently they got hold of a cheat sheet from other dc who had already done the test. There was only ds and a few others who didn't cheat. Consequently the bulk of the class have a aced the test but ds and co have not! He is very annoyed, as am I, but doesn't want to snitch. These marks will be used to set targets and decide which set the dc will be in next year. WWYD?

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BertrandRussell · 24/05/2018 20:03

They should be disqualified from whatever this test is, but given an A in Business Studies....

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Notrightbutwhattodo · 24/05/2018 20:00

The other class (don't know how many dc involved in this bit) took in a sheet with all the definitions on (given to help revise) and used that to cheat, then created the cheat sheet which they sold for £1 each time.

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noblegiraffe · 24/05/2018 19:37

We use the same tests for different year halves, sometimes on different days as they don’t have lessons at the same time. Never heard of anyone creating a cheat sheet for the other year half, they don’t normally have anything do to with each other.

We don’t give back and go through the tests until everyone has sat it so pupils wouldn’t know for sure what the correct answers were, and would have to memorise them while doing the test.

TeenTimesTwo · 24/05/2018 19:33

Our school uses the same tests at different times for y8 as it does tests in usual lesson time, so with 2 halves of a year for example, both set 1 maths will have tests at different times.
Presumably though they aim for them on the same day to minimise cross contamination.
Presumably also a swathe of anomalous results will be obvious?

(Mind you, they also appear to reuse tests from year to year, or at least questions from tests.)

noblegiraffe · 24/05/2018 19:26

Teachers aren’t idiots and will usually notice odd results, but you could always drop an email to the teacher saying that your DS heard some students got hold of answers to the test and is concerned this might affect setting. Hopefully you will get reassurance that performance over the year will be taken into account.

BubblesBuddy · 24/05/2018 19:22

What a stupid school to give the test to one group and use the same test later for another group. D- for that bit of organisation!

Snitch away! The school needs to know what happened so they don’t do it again. Don’t give names. The teachers might work it out though. The school should take responsibility and organise the sets on teacher assessment.

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