I knew of someone who kind of did, depending on which way you look at it. Only for one question though…
He noticed that the answer to a single question, was literally written on his otherwise exam-compliant calculator a few weeks before the exam, for high school math. The question often came up in practice tests. This calculator wasn’t programmable (in the sense you could store answers).
The question?
How many kilometres in a nautical mile? Answer: 1.852.
He figured out that the numbers in the centre row of the calculator lined up exactly with the decimal fraction:
7 8 9
4 5 6
1 2 3
So he drew a line around the calculator pad to link those numbers up. None of the teachers picked it up, as it looked like graffiti.
That seems like more of a mnemonic than cheating, and isn’t that a bit of a silly question for an exam? Unless it’s asking you to derive how many kilometres in a nautical mile from something, exams shouldn’t be testing rote memory.
I knew of someone who kind of did, depending on which way you look at it. Only for one question though…
He noticed that the answer to a single question, was literally written on his otherwise exam-compliant calculator a few weeks before the exam, for high school math. The question often came up in practice tests. This calculator wasn’t programmable (in the sense you could store answers).
The question?
How many kilometres in a nautical mile? Answer: 1.852.
He figured out that the numbers in the centre row of the calculator lined up exactly with the decimal fraction:
7 8 94 5 61 2 3So he drew a line around the calculator pad to link those numbers up. None of the teachers picked it up, as it looked like graffiti.
That seems like more of a mnemonic than cheating, and isn’t that a bit of a silly question for an exam? Unless it’s asking you to derive how many kilometres in a nautical mile from something, exams shouldn’t be testing rote memory.