US schools banning iPods for cheating
Banning baseball caps during tests was obvious — students were writing the answers under the brim. Then, schools started banning cell phones, realizing students could text message the answers to each other. Now, schools across the country are targeting digital media players as a potential cheating device. Devices including iPods and Zunes can be hidden under clothing, with just an earbud and a wire snaking behind an ear and into a shirt collar to give them away, school officials say. Mountain View High School recently enacted a ban on digital media players after school officials realized some students were downloading formulas and other material onto the players. Some students use iPod-compatible voice recorders to record test answers in advance and them play them back, said 16-year-old Mountain View junior Damir Bazdar. Others download crib notes onto the music players and hide them in the “lyrics” text files. Even an audio clip of the old “Schoolhouse Rock” take on how a bill makes it through Congress can come in handy during some American government exams.
Kelsey Nelson, a 17-year-old senior at the school, said she used to listen to music after completing her tests something she can no longer do since the ban. Still, she said, the ban has not stopped some students from using the devices. A teacher at San Gabriel High School in West Covina, Calif., confiscated a student’s iPod during a class and found the answers to a test, crib notes and a definition list hidden among the teen’s music selections. Schools in Seattle, Wash., have also banned the devices. The practice is not limited to the United States: St. Mary’s College, a high school in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, banned cell phones and digital medial players this year, while the University of Tasmania in Australia prohibits iPods, electronic dictionaries, CD players and spell-checking devices. Anyway, there’s nothing better than extra small paper with important formulas sellotaped on your pen. I can guarantee you that noone ever found out I was doing this for years during my studies. 
Source: CBC, AP
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I can just see someone listening to “We Didn’t Start The Fire” during a history exam
What is sellotaped?
Best way to cheat in my opinion is write the formulaes in pencil on the back of a calculator! no one never sees it!
Also write on your arm and wear long sleeves!
LOL, what ever happened to some study? yeah ipod’s were banned in my school, but i usually sweet talked my way into being able to use it during class time, but it was banned during tests and exams (which is fair enough).
what the hell kinda school allows ipods in lessons/exams in the first place? stupid americans.
Ya, in my school all those things are banned full stop, exams or not… But 9 out of 10 ppl have phones and ipods in thir pockets anyway… Cant exactally search every1 evryday can they…
But in tests, i take any stuff i need from the internet.. Turn it into an image file.. send it to my fone.. And in my fome you can zoom right down to see it in perfect quality… Then just have your fone up your sleve and slip it down when teachers arent looking… Cus ususlly they just sit at top or bottom of class, so just take a good central seat… Works everytime 4 me
ohh and @crazyheinz, sellotape is like that sticky tape stuff.. how dont you know that!?!
I use my phone in some exams. I usually “trade” info with some classmates.
Easiet is ofcourse to storage textfiles on the calculator. But will only work on exams where calculator is allowed, hehe
our teachers used to wipe out our calculator for every test so that didnt work, one cheat who i have never seen being caught is writing on an eraser and throwing it back and forth to a friend, if the teachers comes near or looks suspicious you just rub the eraser with your finger like its no tomorrow and all the text disappears
but i know one friend who always used to record himself saying all the answers and then playing them up for himself like the article suggested
the first time he said he almost burst out laughing when hearing his own voice
lol in bulgaria everything`s allowed
even the teachers allow cheating, some of them even go out of the classroom when we are doing an exam
I don’t quite understand banning them throughout the entire school/institution. I do understand banning them during exams/tests, or even during class when you should be learning. But I think you should be allowed them outside classes/exams/tests…That is currently how it is in most schools/universities/institutions in Australia.
At my uni when in an exam, most anything is banned except for a select few things. They only allow you rulers, calculators, pencils and pens. If you want to keep a drink with you, it must be in a clear see-through bottle. the same goes for a pencil case of any kind
oh and programable calculators are almost never allowed in exams unless the exam specifically calls for them, in which case they usually provide them for you, or go around and wipe them
at our uni they allow us to use anything we want during some exams, because they know, that the exam is so fuck*ng hard that it doesnt metter anyway
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man i remember when i was in school they would take your walkman away if they saw that shit so nothing changed realy now the tape players are ipods …. fuck the system!
Our universities only allow water if you want to drink something (and it has to be in a clear bottle), and the writing utensils or other materials (ie. calculator) allowed for whatever exam you’re writing. If you’re caught, then good luck, because you’ll be highly embarrassed. I think it’s entirely fair that iPods are not allowed in test areas. It makes sense, and students complain too much nowadays about having too much homework and the like when many of them are trying to find the easy way out. I’m not saying everyone, but many of them are obnoxious nowadays, at least in North America. But once you get to university nobody has any time for any cheating at all, so too bad for those who only got by in high school by cheating. Guess they will have to study after all.
Known fact is that cheating is a pr0 way to learn actually.
Writing in tiny letters on tiny paper requires an effort that imprints the infos in your memory as well.
Besides you create a friendly attachment to these hidden informations.
So keep cheating!
You will not get away with only cheating anyway. And if you do, you should start a career in con or sthg.
Like Dr. House says: everybody lies. That includes cheating. If you don’t cheat, you’re a poser student.
god your in love with your dr. house Mr. X
in austria every music player was banned right from the beginning during exams (casette, cd, mp3) so where cell phones
but i don´t think we have a law for that lol
beside that a have a 30cm wooden ruler (not what you think .. perv) where i write on the back with a pencil
since you never use it upside down absolutely will ever see it
and if you rub over it with your finger just one time its all gone
should be
since you never use it upside down absolutely noone will ever see it
Lol just study hard and stay off the weed and mushrooms, then it’ll all be good
it’s an old trick a boy in my class has done it during his examns and didn’t got catch
Music helps me think so I always thought that music in the classroom as broundground noise was a good idea, You know how boring class can be without music.. it’s like watching paint dry with retards doing tricks.. More music in the classroom and everyone would be happy.. something everyone can agree on though, maybe jazz.
The ultimate method for me was rewrite all important stuff for test in text editor, then change the font to size 2 or 3 and print it… and the best thing was, i always remembered it so good while making cheat paper, that i rarely had to use it