Said It Here

Why'd my answers get marked wrong when I have the same answers?

Students copy answers from one another during examinations, which ruins the grading curve for everyone else and can even implicate innocent students who are caught in group chats. This dishonesty allows students to get high scores undeservedly while penalizing those who did not cheat.

What the numbers show

Counted from the threads quoted below. How we count

  • The most recent one is from September 2026.
  • This comes up 17.8× more often in r/Accounting than across the site as a whole.

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

  1. 1
    Using multiple scrambled test versions
  2. 2
    Faking additional test versions to induce panic
  3. 3
    Placing an incorrect answer key nearby to trap cheaters
  4. 4
    Reporting the cheaters to the professor or academic department
  5. 5
    Sending a generic email recommending a second camera or mirror for remote exams
  6. 6
    Leaving the student group chat to avoid being implicated
  7. 7
    Ignoring the cheating and minding one's own business

In their words

Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.

r/Teachers1 person · November 2025

I had a kid say, “Why’d my answers get marked wrong when I have the same answers as [kid sitting next to him]?”source ↗

Legitimate-Donkey477 · r/Teachers · 381 upvotes
r/Accounting3 people · September 2026

I've always minded my own business since it hasn't affected me.source ↗

will likely ruin any curve we might've originally gotten (especially since Corp. Tax is known to be a very difficult class and many people who didn't cheat got around a 60).source ↗

Hopeless_romantic859 · r/Accounting · 156 upvotes

See the problem with not reporting is you could be implicated/punished for cheating just because you’re in the chat. At least that would be my fearsource ↗

Even_Elderberry_5878 · r/Accounting · 40 upvotes

They are actively cheating you and the other students in class out of points if their high scores hold up the curvesource ↗

babytommy · r/Accounting · 8 upvotes

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