What is the smartest or most creative way of cheating that a student used?

I remember a story from my O-Kem professor.

This student, all semester, who wasn't showing up to a class,

kept getting his score improved significantly after re-grades.

They got their tests back and had a day to review them

and were allowed to resubmit for a re-grade.

They knew he was cheating because of the

unlikelyhood of the grading mistakes on multiple exams, but the TAs who graded it couldn't

confidently say that it wasn't their handwriting. Ultimately, it was an office worker for the department

who figured it out near the end of the semester. His staples were angled differently than the

exams handed out that were mass

stapled. He was recreating the test, printing it, re-answering it, and then grading it in the

same pen as the TAs, and had done a good job copying the writing style. Not sure if this would work

anymore, but if I had a paper to write on a book I didn't read, I'd find a well-written paper

online, then translate the entire thing from English to German, German to French, French to

Spanish, then Spanish back to English.

Pull the original paper and the new one up side by side and clean up the grammar on the

new paper, and you've got the same concept, just written different enough to not be plagiarism.

Worked like a charm

back then. My teacher shared with us a story about how since she allowed eating during her

tests, one person pulled out a giant bag of M&Ms and ate a specific colour corresponding to A, B, C or D.

It was a two-student duo and they only got caught when another student ratted them out.

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