Teacher used incredible exam question to catch cheaters and caught 14 students
With the power of AI ever increasing in today's world, it's getting easier and easier for students to cheat on exams.
Rather than spending hours revising with colour-coordinated flashcards, drooling over the details, they can quickly turn to the internet to find the perfect answer and get full marks.
But in a bid to teach their class a lesson in the value of hard work, one teacher came up with an ingenious way of catching the cheaters in the act.
In a post shared on social media, the educator explained how he became suspicious of his class' behaviour.
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According to the post, he'd noticed that a lot of his students were taking toilet breaks during exams and doubted that all of them happened to have desperate calls of nature during the test.
Suspicious they were using the toilet breaks to search for answers rather than relieving themselves, he set up a trap.
He devised an utterly 'impossible' question, which he knew his students wouldn't be able to solve, then made sure anyone looking up the answers would get caught out.
About a month before the exam he got a teaching assistant to post the fiendish conundrum online, asking how to solve it.
He then posted his own answer, which would look pretty feasible to anyone not thinking too much about it, like a student opening their search engine rather than the toilet lid.
The only way the students could answer the question in the quiz was by looking it up online, and out of 99 students, 14 of them couldn't help themselves and took the bait.
Hook, line, and sinker.
As a punishment, they were given zero marks on the test, and a debate ensued on Reddit over whether the teacher was right to trick his students or not.
Some people thought it was a 'pretty smart and fair move' and it was 'well played' by the teacher, but others reckoned it was a 'dick move' by a teacher who was on a 'power trip.'
"What if someone wastes their time on this question and doesn't have enough for the rest," one person wondered.
A baffling 'easy' maths question also made adults wish they could go back to their old school desks because the 'math wasn't mathing'.
We were all taught that two plus two equals four and two plus three equals five, but this numerical conundrum claims that two plus three actually makes 10.
The viral question left many grown ups scratching their heads aggressively with their answers ranging from 14 to 70.
However, some maths whizzes were able to get the right answer, or they might just have looked in the comments to see what someone with more time to spare said.
Instead of being a simple maths question for a primary school kid, it was actually a logic puzzle with the answer of 126.
Topics: Viral
Molly Lee