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scantrons
Ok so I know when anybody says "I have a friend who..." they mean themselves. but im really talking about someone else here
so my friend travis and i were talking about taking midterms next week, and he said he heard about people taking chap stick and running it across the little black bars to make all the answers correct. i know it sounds stupid for me to ask this, but is he right? because there IS a possibility, but if its not true i dont want him to fail his exams, because he would have just wrote down random answers and used the chap stick.
please help me out
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no, thats just silly. you cannot fool the scantron, it knows all, it sees all.
i will however tell you a very handy tip, if you dont know the answer on a multiple choice test, and you have absolutely no way to figure it out in your head, its not a bad idea just to pick "C".
i know it sounds stupid, but i wouldent recomend it if it hadent worked for me multiple times. i would NOT recomend useing that trick for placement tests tho. when i was entering college i didnt understand most of the math questions (never was any good with math), so i ended up puting down "C" for most of them. i ended up scoring higher than my brother who was actualy good at math and was placed in one of the more advanced classes. the teacher told me his name and that was the last word i understood in there. >.<
so yeah, that one works but the chap stick thing is bull-malarky.
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So, we have concluded that it isn't possible.
Now, since Travis is your friend, and you don't want him to be a failure in life, tell him he better study up.
No cheating method is worth cheating yourself out of your future (because when you cheat in your studies, you are only cheating yourself). And your education IS your future.
As his caring, kind, concerned friend, make sure he realizes that.
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I am Sabine's friend, who worked the OMR machine in college. She's right - there is absolutely no way to fool the machine into giving you a better score. There are plenty of ways to make it give you a worse score, or a zero, or a rejection.
The little black bars are timing marks. The machine "watches" them go through so it knows which line is being scanned. Nothing having to do with grading takes place in that area of the sheet.
It's a very simple machine, essentially; it looks for black marks in the right places on a sheet. If it finds them in the right places, it does nothing. If it fails to find them in the right places, or finds multiple marks where there should be only one, it marks them wrong. There is literally no way to fool the machine into giving you a better score. The best you could hope for is that the machine would reject the sheet, in which case it would be looked over by a human being who would catch whatever it was you were trying to do.
Furthermore, if by some miracle there WERE a way to fool the machine, it wouldn't stay secret for long and the machine manufacturers would fix the flaw so that it wouldn't work anymore.
There's no way to cheat the scantron. Please tell your friend not to ruin everyone else's test sheets by gumming up the works with Chapstick; he'll probably not only fail the course and be expelled for trying to cheat, but he'll be financially responsible for fixing a $200,000 scanner.
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"I have a friend who" worked at the OMR (optical mark reader) place in college. They marked all of the scantron sheets. I saw it being done several times. There's no way chapstick would fool the machine into marking everything correct. The thing that's more likely to happen is that it will stick his paper to another one and either jam up the machine or simply go through without being read. Your friend is risking getting a zero. :0
Sabine
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there is no such thing as chap stick, so advice your friend not to do it, he/she will not only fail, but what it they catches them who knows what they will do.
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False.
Basically, if there is any other mark besides the pencil mark, the machine tells the instructor to hand grade it.
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