Cheating

[Orchid2025]

My Ds sat his politics 1 paper last week and came home and said he was sure the boy next to him was cheating as he had his phone in his pocket and he could clearly see it. Said boy went to the toilet twice within the exam, obviously with his phone. Fast forward this week, politics paper 2 and "phone boy" has taken written notes out of his pocket and checked them over then goes to the toilet again with notes.
My Ds has reported "phone boy" there were 2 members of staff waiting for him when the exam finished.
What will happen now ?

Edit: why don’t we let @1SillySossij be operated on ….

If this is a university exam, it could affect their own grade.

Poetry and Wine is the font of all knowledge, so I am doubly agreeing with their opinion.
Cheating involves trying to gain an unfair advantage which can never be right. Having invigilated previously I’ve never seen outright cheating, although I did observe a student who sat at his desk, threw his head back and slept all the way through his maths GCSE.

They can be thrown out of university, if proven. Same goes for plagiarism of coursework.

I doubt an A level in politicsis enough yo qualify anyone to perform sugery🤣🤣🤣

They could become a cheating, lying politician.

Oh wait, we have plenty of those already.

Cheating is never OK IMO.

this makes no sense to me
1 How did your ds alert the invigilator during the exam without the boy next to him seeing./hearing. and who were the staff waiting for him after the exam

2 I t makes no sense to get your notes out, check them in the exam hall if you were going to go to the toilet
3 surely the boy will have ditched the otes in the toilet to not be causght with the evidence

So is it okay to cheat if you aren’t in medical school?

If a (school) invigilator notices cheating such as using a phone, there is a limit about what can be done under exam conditions to make sure the other candidates are not disturbed. Any devices or notes etc would be confiscated, but the candidate would still complete the exam and its left to the exam board to decide on sanctions. The candidate concerned would be asked to stay at the end and senior school staff and the exams officer would then be able to talk to them and a report would be written.
Sanctions for phone use are severe and the candidate would either have a mark of zero for that one exam or all exams for that subject or even for all exams taking in that session for that exam board.

Retired academic here. In my experience the student will get a zero mark and will be allowed to resit, probably quite quickly and capped at the pass mark.

Well it seems that many of us disagree. Personally I prefer people to act with integrity

DC probably put his hand up to alert invigilator whilst the student with the notes went to the toilet.

Just to clarify. Boy went to toilet first then later in the exam took notes from his pocket so had no chance to ditch them. My DS asked to speak to invigilator and reported what he saw. She said she had seen him too. She organised for two members of staff to be waiting at the end. My DS did not try to hide the fact he had spoken to invigilator. He has great integrity and a huge sense of fairness. He would openly admit to anyone what he did if asked but hasn't openly told anyone what he's done. He is not ashamed of his actions.

He did the right thing.