Crib from a crib

Crib from a crib

One my ex-classmate, a girl, was so afraid of writing the final test of biology, that she made 27 pieces of crib sheets and marked each of them from 1 to 27. Then she hid them on several different places (including her underwear). But she attached the 3rd sheet to a neighbour’s backs who was sitting in front of her and the professor spotted it and asked her about the cheat sheets number 2 and 1. Nevertheless, she couldn’t remember where she precisely placed them and finally had to unveil all of her “written helpers”. Surprisingly, the professor (laughing at her previous “striptease”) didn’t take the test from her, but praised her for the effort she put into her test-preparation, and later used the 27 sheets as teaching utility.

If only all teachers and professors were so tolerant. On the other hand, at higher level of education it is becoming more common, that teachers let their students use hand-made cheat sheets when rote memorization is not necessary.

I do not agree with cheating or academic dishonesty, but on the other hand I think that the idea of using crib sheets made by students themselves, when they do not have to know everything by heart, is good.

More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheat_sheet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_dishonesty