Students cheat in exams

[SaiyanZ]

Mine weren't, but to be honest they wouldn't have helped anyway.

Physics: 2% regurgitation, 86% figuring out, 11% banging head on desk, 1% eureka moments.

You don't spend time in the exam room figuring out. You only react during the exam. The figuring out must be done before the exam.

 

[Spliffcat]

The future leaders of SA. Lying and cheating 101.

 

[R13...]

Good thing I went to UCT

Why? Because you don't get caught?

 

[Kornhub]

How the fudge do you cheat in Unisa exams :erm: You are squashed like sardines.

 

[Knyro]

You don't spend time in the exam room figuring out. You only react during the exam. The figuring out must be done before the exam.

OT but physics is a funny beast like that. It's absolutely possible to study hard for months, understand everything, do past papers and still fail dismally. Every question is almost unique, and you'll spend pages and pages deriving an equation applicable to a specific situation from scratch.

It's the study of nature, think of all the possible occurrences that can happen in the universe, you can't possibly prepare for it all. The best you can do is try do find commonalities and and get to the point where you can figure out the rest on the fly.

It's not like say, second year calculus where you obviously build upon past experience and get to the point where you can do the questions in your sleep.

 

[dlk001]

Good thing I went to UCT

There was cheating at UCT and I seen instances of irregularities.

 

[Electric]

It depends on what you /mean/ by cheating. Lines can get very blurry, and sometimes it is in your interest not to suffer through something with just a pen and blank paper.

huh?

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Maybe all tertiary exams should be open book and be designed to test understanding rather than memory

I agree with this. You have to know and understand what you're doing.

You won't remember everything after a while, but if you understand the what, where, why and how, then it is better than trying to parrot a book.

 

[dlk001]

Maybe all tertiary exams should be open book and be designed to test understanding rather than memory

All our final year civil engineering exams were mostly open book and still the whole class would fail. Faculty would then do adjustment, shifting of marks to pass certain category of students.

 

[SaiyanZ]

OT but physics is a funny beast like that. It's absolutely possible to study hard for months, understand everything, do past papers and still fail dismally. Every question is almost unique, and you'll spend pages and pages deriving an equation applicable to a specific situation from scratch.

It's the study of nature, think of all the possible occurrences that can happen in the universe, you can't possibly prepare for it all. The best you can do is try do find commonalities and and get to the point where you can figure out the rest on the fly.

It's not like say, second year calculus where you obviously build upon past experience and get to the point where you can do the questions in your sleep.

Ye, calculus was pretty easy at uni. There was no need to attend lectures if you understood the patterns. Had 100% in first year maths.

I only did physics at school level, not uni. After a while it got real easy and I answered questions automagically. I ended up finishing my final matric physics exam in 30 minutes and spent 15 minutes checking afterwards. Walked out halfway through the exam because there was nothing left for me to do. This was back in 2000. I ended up with the highest in the country for physics and maths in matric, 99% for physics and 100% for maths. Got 99% for physics because the physics teacher didn't want to give me 100% for the continuous assessment portion for fear of being audited/reviewed. 2000 was also the first year of continuous assessment which added subjectiveness to your results via your teachers.

I guess uni physics is a lot more advanced than matric physics. I think it is possible to know everything there is to know if you can learn fast however.

 

[Garson007]

I scored 100% on my report card once for Science.

No, it's impossible to "know" everything in physics. Physics exams are not knowledge based.

 

[dlk001]

This was back in 2000. I ended up with the highest in the country for physics and maths in matric, 99% for physics and 100% for maths. Got 99% for physics because the physics teacher didn't want to give me 100% for the continuous assessment portion for fear of being audited/reviewed..

I also got 99% for HG Physics in matric because I practiced a dozen of old exam papers for months so much that it took me 30min to write paper 1 exam.

Then went to UCT and I was brought back to reality.

 

[Zewp]

The future leaders of SA. Lying and cheating 101.

People have been cheating for as long as they've sat down to write exams. This is hardly a new phenomenon. It's just a lot easier to cheat with the advent of modern technology.

 

[Kornhub]

At UJ my friend told me of a Muslim chick using a speaker hidden under the thing they wear. She had taped herself reading out the answers.

 

[Electric]

I can't believe folks cheat in Unisa exams.
We were watched like homeless ppl in Spar.