These students tried to steal a statistics exam Oceans 11 style but got caught because the professor was working late:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/us/university-of-kentucky-stolen-test.html
About 20 years ago a student at Concordia University in Montréal tried the same thing. He was alone and fell 4 floors down an air conditioning duct. He was only discovered when building occupants complained of a foul odor.
My physics prof told us about that! Lol
One demonstration of how it’s often far more work/effort to cheat than it is to put in the effort to study/get tutoring if needed.
so if the amount of planning for this was probably a lot longer than it would take to just learn the material…and they failed in their mission …they should also receive secret double probation for messing up the heist.
I think most people who do not work in education would be shocked at what students do and don’t do. And when I say that I fully comprehend how little energy people have to be shocked any more because of shock fatigue. Even as tired as most people are about being outraged and shocked I still think you would be shocked at the lack of effort many students are willing to put in and cheating is one manifestation of that. Grade grubbing is another manifestation and I could go on and on. About fifty percent of the curriculum is taught online at some places or in giant lecture halls and if the tests are not done at the testing centers it is pretty much the Evil House of Cheat your way to a degree that is, in my opinion, worthless. But people know they need that degree to get in the door so they do whatever it takes, other than actually reading the book and studying, to get it.
Much of the online stuff (most) is crap. You pay up to hundreds a credit hour to self teach it is worthless and robbery. So, yes cheating is wrong well spending $1500 to teach yourself a course at a onine college is crap too.
System is broke.