25 Creative Ways Students Have CHEATED On Tests

You won’t believe these amazingly creative ways students have cheated on tests. These students took it to the next level with their attempts to cheat on an exam. These funny true stories of the clever ways kids cheat will have you shaking your head and wondering why YOU didn’t think of that back in high school. This compilation of clever ways kids cheat on tests showcases the most clever and creative ways kids trick the system so get ready to laugh as you watch these 25 creative ways students have cheated on tests.

These stories of cheating on a quiz or exam come to us from all over the internet. From funny tales of cheating high school math to crazy cheat sheets used in university these true stories are crazy! If you’ve ever been caught cheating on a test, these smart students will put you to shame with their undetectable strategies. Curious to hear these true stories of students cheating? Watch this video and see 25 creative ways students have cheated on tests and let us know what crazy things you did to pass a test.

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These smart and funny ways that students have found to cheat on tests are impressive. From snail mailing test questions to outside consultants to smuggling in answers written in chewing gum you’ll love these sneaky ways kids cheat on tests (unless you’re a teacher). Teachers, watch out for kids hiding answers under their fake fingernails, making a “micro photocopy,” hiding answers under tights (what a clever cheat sheet!), and smuggling answers under Snapple labels or Ace bandages. Students, think you know all the clever ways to cheat? Do you know how to cheat using a rubber band or invisible ink? Whether you want to know the best way to cheat a college exam or the worse way to get caught cheating - watch these creative ways students have cheated on tests and see which methods make it into our top 10!

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Music: "You Can't Fail" by Density & Time

[DourMessor]

If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying

[graywoulf]

Seems that you have created quite a tutorial video here.

[TimShred]

In high school history my friend and I used morse code we had learned in boy scouts togive each other answers during exams. using apencil to tap out the codeon the desktop. It all seemed to be going well until we heard our teacher tap out D-E-T-E-N-T-I-O-N on his desk top.

[cameronleslie]

"It's only cheating if you're caught"

[ervinughy]

In school I was known as the artist guy who doodles everywhere. On my books, pencil case, rubber, even my desk. The teachers were lenient, because I was really good at drawing, and made my works crazy elaborate, so they haven't had the heart to make me erase them even from the desk. Thus, no one ever batted an eye at my desk being half filled with tattoo art and fictional letter like symbols.
So, I've used this to include some actual info interwoven with my random art. As I've said, I was quite good. I've managed to make it crazy obscure, so only I could interpret it. Making letters half complete, vastly differing sizes, skipping a few, combining a few, making a few code letters, etc and no one ever figured it out, not even when they were looking directly at the doodle.
I once wrote down half a textbook page's worth of info like this, and the joke was on me, because while I was figuring out how to disguide all those letters, I memorized the whole thing, so I didn't need to cheat after all.
Who ever said that art wasn't useful for education?

[alexandero]

Watching this 2 days before
My exams 😂

[lupaman]

Some of these cheating methods are pretty clever.

[Kevinhillcrest]

Sounds like most of these techniques got them caught.

[jaspr]

As terrible as it sounds... Retired teacher... I cheat on video games that I've played for too long and know too well. Giving myself a max wanted level in GTA races is my favorite cheat.

[philipgarcia]

I created my own 50 character alphabet in the 7th grade and knew how to read it very well by 8th grade. My school made us use our folders to block our tests during testing and everyone usually doodled on their folders since we weren’t allowed to do so in our notebooks. I drew this picture with space ships on the bottom of my folder and included text within those spaceships, written in the very alphabet that I’ve created. What looked like an innocent drawing was actually a cheat sheet for the entire year. Cheated on all of my big exams with this method and never got a single glimpse of suspicion from any of my classmates, let alone the teacher, who ACTUALLY DID SEE THE DRAWINGS MANY TIMES and STILL didn’t bust my scheme. 7 years later, as I type this comment, I can now marvel at just how well I cheated my elementary school’s system and share this story with you all.

[Aquamarine]

I actually did #1 without a phone and instead used a huge piece of paper. Everyone was finishing up and the teacher never really suspected last minute cheats. When no one looked, I adjusted the partially folded paper to reveal the other answers.
IT WAS REALLY RISKY I admit but it definitely paid off.

[janeyrevanescence]

One of my teachers (now retired) told me a story once about an exam. They had a student teacher present so he was in charge of the class and exam that day and my teacher stepped out for a few minutes, confident the student teacher could handle it. She came back and caught two students cheating.

Student A was sitting in front of Student B. Whenever B needed an answer, he'd tap A on the back. A would lower his hand to the side and finger spell the answer of the multiple choice, being careful to make the movements look like he was stretching, scratching or picking up his pencil.

The teacher (who is fluent in ASL) took her time going back up to the front. At the end of the class, when all of the tests were handed back, she asked the class if they wanted extra credit. Of course they agreed and she said "Okay, can anyone tell me what this means for ten extra points" and finger spelled "I caught you", making sure to make eye contact to the two students.

Needless to say, they flunked the class.

[AdZS]

I almost cheated once. I wrote all the formulas we needed to know on a small cheat sheet which I tucked into the pouch of my calculator (we were allowed those). The funny thing is that it took me several tries to fit everything in. So the next day, I found I had actually memorized the formulas whist trying to write the cheat-sheet.

[phils]

Never cheated. Not worth it since you'll HAVE to have the knowledge to do the job. In our Chemistry finals (very early 1970's) we had the one student who was a definite First Class Honours chap - really good though very much the loner. He was the one who had a nervous breakdown right at the start of the exam, and was carted out by the Ambulance personnel. Imagine how the rest of us "lesser mortals" felt - "If the best have gone bonkers, we're all doomed" sums it up.

[shawnise]

I had a teacher once that said we could have two 3x5 index card with answers on it and to write small. Nothing could be on the back of them...just front. I went in Microsoft Word and used the ruler to type out the test to the size of a 3x5 card and used the smallest font I could read (I think it was a 6 font), printed it out and cut it to size. Needless to say, I had the whole test with me.

[kubek]

Technology wasn't that advanced during the times I went to school. I didn't cheat though. I was too scared of being caught. HOWEVER during my university years there was a time where teacher (professor) fell asleep during exam. Just like that. So everyone passed.

[raychang]

A college teacher of mine was pretty cool and it was a very early morning class. We were waiting outside the classroom for security to come unlock the doors to the room. We were joking around a little bit and the teacher said "You've probably got a cheat-sheet right here" and reached inside a guy's coat sleeve and coincidentally pulled his cheat-sheet out. For a second or two, the teacher was actually embarrassed, but finally the guy failed the test.

[The-Ace-Of-Clubs]

You know the more you grow the more you realize that studying will make you an employee but someone with a mindset to break rules has a much higher chance to have a better life

[bobbyslater]

In high school I ordered the answer book for my history class from the publisher. However, since I memorized all the answers, I'm not sure if this was considered cheating.

[tonyandraca]

This should be retitled I'm a snitch 25 ways your teacher can now find you cheating