I remember similar situations in University

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SpaceBug176@reddit

Is there literally any other reason for this than the feeling of power.

Geniune question. Do they get yelled at by the principal or something?

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Champomi@reddit

Back in college most of my exams were multiple-choice questions and you had to fill in boxes to indicate your answers, like this:

The professors didn't correct it themselves since there were hundred of students, they used machines that scanned the answers. Light inks were forbidden since the machines couldn't see them

I don't think they would have given you a bad grade for that though, they'd probably just have corrected it themselves and told you not to do that again

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Iwatchedhimdrown@reddit

Never had an exam like that, in my country you have to answer with calculus or by extensive writting.

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Ekwinoksxxx@reddit

Don’t these cantons have to be filled out in pencil to be scanned though? Like no pen at all?

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Dellgloom@reddit

I'm a software dev in edtech, and one of our products is scanning these types of sheets.

It does not matter in ours, at least. For this type of test we filter out all of the red colours from the sheet and then determine the answers that are given purely based on the x/y coordinates of the pen/pencil marks on the sheet.

As long as your writing implement is not red and you make a strong enough mark it's fine. Bigger problems are when you mark 2 or more answers, because it requires manual intervention by the teacher in most cases.

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SpaceBug176@reddit

I also had this, but we usually had these only for big tests, like a test to get into highschool or university. Any other test was read by the teachers.

Though I didn't get into college yet so maybe it'll be like this there.

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MyHeadIsFullOfFuck@reddit (OP)

It's to teach you to CONFORM.

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ZubatCountry@reddit

It's to see if you can follow basic instructions and show up prepared

CONFORM?!?

or just bring two pens stupid

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ToxDocUSA@reddit

Or talk to the exam proctor. Shit happens.

"Sir/ma'am, my pen(s) died, here they both are for proof, do you have a spare? I didn't want to disturb my colleagues asking them."

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thr33beggars@reddit

And then the professor looks you up and down, smirks, and says, “Maybe there’s one under my desk…”

“What…?” you ask timidly, but then he scoots his chair back a bit and motions with his head while raising his eyebrows a bit.

“Maybe there’s a pen you could use under my desk. Maybe, if you use the pen under my desk well enough, you won’t even need to take the exam. How’s that sound?”

You had been slacking off when it came to studying and honestly assumed you were going to fail this class. Maybe fail a couple classes and end up having to take a whole semester more before you graduate. What’s ten or fifteen minutes to save yourself from having to take the whole class over again?

So you crawl under his desk and he slides his chair back in. He reaches his hand under the desk to unzip his fly, and then he runs his finger through your hair as he gently pulls your head to his lap. You always fantasized about being given an oral exam but now your dream has come true.

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MyHeadIsFullOfFuck@reddit (OP)

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Cubicleism@reddit

Fake: anon attends college Gay: under the desk blowjob

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zw1ck@reddit

Every test I've ever taken, the proctor has a pile of spares.

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matt6342@reddit

I used to get told it’s because they scan them into computers and the red doesn’t scan as well or something

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gnomish_engineering@reddit

Could be that but i think a huge part of it is cultural. In the military red ink is only used by the commanding officer (and green is second in command) . It could be a hold over from military culture considering how many other weird ass artifacts there are.

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AmericanRedDawn@reddit

Don't know what military branch nor what time period but thats definantly false for modern day US military

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Dellgloom@reddit

I'm a software dev in edtech. In our software we drop red colours from scanned sheets to make black/blue stand out more.

It's definitely a thing, at leaat in our software.

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The_Noremac42@reddit

At least in high-school my teachers used red ink for grading, so if a student also used red ink for their homework then it would get confusing.

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Accurate_College_864@reddit

they told us it's because only red or blue pen survives the scans. and no if you answer in red pen they just make you rewrite it in black, and if you run out of time that's your problem. my uni sucked like that

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ToxDocUSA@reddit

No one was ever this type of ass. A clear change in ink after "writing furiously" shows an attempt to follow the rules.

Other kinds of ass, absolutely. Lab results are 85% of grade, exam is 15%...until everyone focuses hard on the labs and then tanks the exam and is still going to get a decent grade. Nope, now we have to down curve all the lab grades...

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quagzlor@reddit

Profs were 100% this kind of ass. We had some profs who would weight most of the stuff on the final, then COVID hit.

The uni told them to give allowances and alternative methods for grades due to to COVID.

Nope. No fucks given. You caught COVID/didn't have internet due to being from a small town? Fuck you.

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eyrthren@reddit

There is no second / third date to re-do the exam if you were ill / otherwise unable to do it? Wtf?

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quagzlor@reddit

See, that would require a reasonable professor.

Some of them are just genuinely dickheads

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eyrthren@reddit

That’s not even a professor problem, this is mandatory for all courses at my uni

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quagzlor@reddit

My place liked to give the profs a lot of control. To our advantage and detriment both

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zacyzacy@reddit

Stuff like this happened to me in highschool a lot for some reason. Like one time, me and a friend helped each other with with math homework, genuinely collaborating and helping each other learn the material.

We got one of the answers wrong, and they GRILLED us about "plagererism" and literally put us in a prisoners dilemma situation in separate rooms. But it didn't work at all, because both off us were too flabbergasted to even attempt to lie, not that we needed to.

Literally lost all respect for every teacher involved, I really regret not letting them know.

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leanorange@reddit

My Spanish teacher senior year didn’t believe that I passed his final after bumming around in his easy class all year, failed me so I went to the head of the foreign language department and she had me take the test again in front of her and I got like a 90 😂 teachers are not all there to see you succeed lmao imagine beefing with a 17 year old

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