June 9, 2025 by Ava Tatum (‘26)
Since high school is coming to a close for me and my graduating class of what feels like 3 million seniors, I thought I would give the underclassmen a gift. The gift of cheating. There hasn’t been a test that I’ve taken that I haven’t cheated on. SAT? Cheated. AP Human Geography? Cheated. Algebra II Regents? Currently figuring out how to cheat on that one (tips are appreciated). Here are all of the methods I’ve used (and will continue to use) in my 13 years of schooling that I think all students should take with them in their high school careers.
ChatGPT is so advanced that it writes articles in such a human voice nowadays, but I think it could be even more human. First, I took a blurb from my Halloween article about a short story: “’You, Disappearing’ by Alexandra Kleeman is a short story about a woman grappling with an apocalypse. This eerie and somber story discusses themes of mortality and the inevitability of death”. Then I asked ChatGPT to give me something that sounded more robotic, this is what I got back: 01010011 01100101 01110000 01110100 01100101 01101101 01100010 01100101… then I plugged this back into ChatGPT and asked to make it sound more like a teen wrote it. I got this: “So like this short story called You Disappearing by Alexandra Kleeman is about some girl chilling in an apocalypse. It’s pretty scary and sad. It’s totes about themes of life and like death.” It’s safe to say this method will be getting you an A on your next essay.
Maybe you’ve found yourself in an AP Calculus class when you know that you cheated on the Algebra II regents. I have a trick for every test you can imagine, Canva has thousands of templates for chip bags. All you need to do is choose one and replace the generic text with your test answers then wrap it around a real bag of chips. Make sure to be inconspicuous about it by adding something on the bag that says that it is in fact a bag of chips.
Maybe you’re taking a foreign language class this year, Spanish, French, Latin, English 10. If you haven’t studied for a verbal test, it’s probably going to be hard to cheat on it, right? Wrong. You just have the wrong mindset; everything is cheatable if you try hard enough. What I do whenever I have a test in Spanish is hire my stunt double Isabella to take my tests for me. Isabella speaks Spanish at home, and we look almost exactly alike. I just pay her $30 to go take the test and I’m guaranteed an A.
Spitting image, right?!
If you need any more helpful tips like these feel free to find me in The Lightning Rod room, B118. If Isabella is there writing for me tell her, I’ll have the money by Friday.