Tip of the day, don’t cheat in exams
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Does using modafinil count as cheating?
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Do you get extra points for using a drug which has the opposite effect? 
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What? The person in the story is or did medicine.
Besides, 7 years for Architecture is rather...rough figure.
Technically speaking.
3 year degree - RIBA Part 1
1 year out in practice (document and logged, needs 3 months)
2 Year PG Dip - RIBA Part 2
Then run a project from start to finish, document it. Take it to the the RIBA and present it. Take 2 exams (split into 2 days in a week I think), That's your RIBA Part 3. Now this project you run could be 2 years long, or 9 months long. I've also seen people went straight from Degree into PG Dip without the year out, they did that in the summer (4 months, but its hard to find a paid job in practice for 4 months). So in theory one can do it in 6 years I think.
wow, poor fella!
I cheated in my GCSE French written exam many years ago. I was alright at all the other subjects (C's and B's) but really couldn't get on with French.
To do it I wrote up as much vocab as I could fit in a relevantly sized area, printed it off in 6 or 8 pt script and then cut it to size. I carefully peeled the wrapping away from full regular plastic coke bottle, put the paper behind (with the text facing inward) and resealed it; the glue's quite sticky so it holds together fine. Whenever I couldn't remember something I'd drink the coke down to the "et tu's", or whatever bit I needed and put it back on the table and just look at what I needed from there. If it was around the other side then i'd have another little drinky.
Most bottles of coke etc... have text written inside the label with their T&C's for some competition they're having, or whatever, so it doesn't look out of the ordinary at even fairly close inspection and the shape of the bottle gives it some magnification allowing you to fit quite a lot of text on the sheet inside.
he should have done what I did, I mean it doesn't take a doctor to work that one out.
still got a D mind!
B@
You're not allowed labels on drinks, or any drink other than water any more, I think they've wised up to that
I expect by the time that this individual has exhausted his legal and appeal avenues he will either be able to repeat the final year or will simply move to a country that will allow him to complete his degree.
Given the current entitlement culture in the UK I suspect that he will be a Doctor at some point in the future.
I have never even thought about cheating on an exam, what purpose does it serve, you will know that you are have not earned that qualification, whatever it may be, and is that not the point of striving to accomplish something. To actually accomplish it.
Given the current entitlement culture in the UK I suspect that he will be a Doctor at some point in the future.
I have never even thought about cheating on an exam, what purpose does it serve, you will know that you are have not earned that qualification, whatever it may be, and is that not the point of striving to accomplish something. To actually accomplish it.
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I witnessed someone caught cheating in an exam last year. He had an MP3 player in his pocket and had threaded the cord so that a headphone was hanging by his wrist. No idea what he had on the recording but I really can't imagine it was too useful. Considering it was some wordy exam that just required a large amount of basic knowledge the only way that could have been useful is if he knew the questions in advance and had the answer recorded. What a tit.
No idea. Some energy drinks would have gone down well in some of the exams I've had to sit.
No idea. Some energy drinks would have gone down well in some of the exams I've had to sit.
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Harsh but fair.
Would you really want to potentially put the life in your hands of someone who cheated their way into their job?
Would you really want to potentially put the life in your hands of someone who cheated their way into their job?
Main reason here is that if you spill drinks (other than water) onto your examination script then it's difficult to recover it. Coke/fruit juices etc are very sticky and so the pages will stick together - if you spill just water onto the page then it's usually recoverable!
(that's the official line anyway!)
Charles University, Prague.
The course is 6 years long here, the final year is like FY1 in the uk and you have the option to do the final year over 2 years which many people do.
But you do not get a BSc. Also it it quite common to repeat a year in the first years, I would say around 25% of students fail at least one year. I had to repeat anatomy in my first year.
He is a smart guy and really did not need to cheat however he has had other problems with the university int he past and this was his second and last warning.
He had notes on his Ipod.
Lol.
"For 10 marks, give a quote from Edgar Allen Poe"
*cracks open a can of Relentless* Good times!
He put notes on his iPod? Of all the ways to cheat isn't that possibly the dumbest imaginable? You could see someone across the room staring at an iPod even if its under the desk.
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How happy I am that none of the courses I've taken since High School have required examination...
Long live coursework assessment.
Long live coursework assessment.
LOL its not that bad, he used the old ipod nano so he switched off the backlight and thought no one would see it
. I do agree with you and I think the school would have set a really bad president if they did not kick him out.
However you really learn most of how to be a doctor when you are at work and not from exams.
Yes it was a very easy exam, it took me 10 days to study for that one. The bigger exams like Internal can take upto 6 weeks.
