<story><title>How to Catch a Cheater</title><url>http://nerdlife.net/how-to-catch-a-cheater/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WillyF</author><text>During my Freshman year of college (2002), I was taking Econ 101. It was a class of probably 500 students, and our tests were multiple choice. By the time I got back to my dorm room, the answers to the test were always up on the course website (I&apos;m not sure when they actually were posted).&lt;p&gt;After the first two tests, the professor must have noticed that something wasn&apos;t right. I finished the third test quickly, and was pretty confident that I had done extremely well. We used scantron sheets for our answers, so we got to take the paper with the questions home after the test. I had marked all of my answers on both sheets, so I loaded the course website and started checking my answers.&lt;p&gt;My heart sank as I went through the answers. Somehow I had managed to get every single question wrong. I figured that there must have been something wrong with the answers, and when I matched the answers (not the letters), I realized that I had actually gotten every question right.&lt;p&gt;The prof swapped the letters, so the kids whose friends were texting them the &quot;answers&quot; got screwed. It was pretty funny, even if it increased my blood pressure for a little bit.</text></comment>
<story><title>How to Catch a Cheater</title><url>http://nerdlife.net/how-to-catch-a-cheater/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wwortiz</author><text>&amp;#62; We were explicitly told that searching online for answers to homeworks was forbidden.&lt;p&gt;I might be in the minority but I am of the opinion that if you are grading students on something that can be easily obtained through a google search you probably shouldn&apos;t be grading them on that.</text></comment>