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At my college there was a class where one of the teacher assistants got ahold of the answer key and handed it out to class mates. The memorized the key, not the

At my college there was a class where one of the teacher assistants got ahold of the answer key and handed it out to class mates. The memorized the key, not the answers, but the actual “A,B,A,C,C…” of the key. We told the professor, so he just rearranged the answers. So every student that cheated got a perfect 0. This had the effect of them failing the assignment on their own, and also telling you who the cheaters were.

judge2020 4y ago
A perfect zero seems unlikely, unless the answers were changed to 'anything other than the original letter'?
- jackson1442 4y ago
  I bet that was done by design to achieve this effect.
  - ec109685 4y ago
    You’d think they would have sanity checked a couple.
    - xigoi 4y ago
      Students who cheat usually aren't the sharpest pencil in the box.
    - chongli 4y ago
      Sanity checks like this can be defeated by having all of the options (ABCD...) be similar enough and plausible to anyone who didn't actually study the material.