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As a [near poverty] grad student, I am more concerned with the loss of the device than with "cheating" in an exam. The phone has my cards, contact info, plus it
by PartiallyTyped 4y ago
As a [near poverty] grad student, I am more concerned with the loss of the device than with "cheating" in an exam. The phone has my cards, contact info, plus its actual value. Understandably, exams are a stressful situation, and risking losing your phone is an added and frankly unnecessary stressor. 250 euro (how much my one plus nord cost me on sale) is not a lot to most people here, but that covers my living expenses (minus rent) for a month or so.
- jb3689 4y agoDoes this imply that you value passing your course at less than 250 euros? I understand your point about the hassle, but trying to understand the rationality
- klysm 4y agoNo it doesn’t, humans don’t work like that.
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- PartiallyTyped 4y agoIt implies that I will be performing suboptimally because I will be worried about my livelihood over the examination.
- bell-cot 4y agoIf the instructor had announced, a few weeks before, "Absolutely no cell phones in the exam - leave it at home, or it will go into a box in the front corner of the classroom during the exam, or else you will automatically fail the exam"...would that work (both operationally and psychologically) for you?
- PartiallyTyped 4y agoLeaving it at home may not be feasible if the student needs to take the metro and they use the ticket apps. I'd ask whether I can sit at the front, put my phone in my backpack, and store (lock) the backpack in front of the desk so that I can't access it without standing up and making noise. So far no professor took issue with this.