Most of us learn pretty early on in life that cheating is wrong. But the temptation is still there, sometimes. Forgot to study? Maybe somebody else’s answers can help…

But in this story, one student gets tired of a whole class of “honors” students stealing his math answers, so he lays a trap and waits for the other kids to fall in.

Let’s fill in some answers.

A trap that lead to a way better outcome than expected.

This happened back in my junior high school days.

I am not an honor student, if anything I’m just kinda above average but I’m confident in any math related subjects.

In my class back then, are full of supposedly “honor” and “cream of the crop” students. But a lot of them are rotten.

Honors students aren’t always honorable. What’s so rotten about this bunch?

They are smart students who cheat on every subject if given the chance just so they can maintain their 90+ grade and make their parents proud.

And they genuinely think that they deserved to have honors because they “worked hard” to have a grade like that.

A lot of them knew that I’m good at math.

Numbers don’t lie. But will these students?

At first I’m willing to teach them how to solve problems, but after a while they devolved into just outright copying my answers. They don’t have the patience to learn.

Sometimes I lose time in exams because I keep telling them how to do this and that for every problem. Whenever I refuse to have my answers copied, suddenly it was my fault that they can’t ace the exam.

Then one time, we had a homework in physics about concave and convex mirrors.

Perfect time for reflection.

I tried to answer it first with what I learned. But when I looked up the formula again, it turns out I got the formulas mixed-up and all my former answers are wrong.

I changed my answers based on the correct formula for mirrors.

When I got to school, the guy who always copies my answers is already on his way to ask me to copy that physics homework.

Someone needs to tell this guy to get lost. Will it be OP?

Not even a, “How can I do this or that?” Just straight up, “Hey, you finished on that homework yet? Let me copy please.”

After I opened my bag, it turns out that the first homework I made (where all answers are wrong) was still there. So I had a bright idea.

I gave him that homework, intentionally hoping that he will copy the wrong answers, which he did.

Fell right into the trap. Will he figure it out before the time comes to hand things in?

The time for physics subject came and we pass the homework to our prof for her to check it. When she gave it back to us with the results, I can hear everyone kinda panicking and asking random questions

It turns out a lot of my classmates got zero on that homework.

And it also turns out that the guy who copied my “homework” spread my answers to almost everyone in the class to copy it.

Wow, pretty lemming of them, tbh. Will the teacher notice that something’s up?

It’s not like he actually spread the answers btw, it’s more like a lot of my classmate also didn’t do the homework early and just resorted to cheating.

Of course no one admitted that they copied answers.

Meanwhile, I got a perfect score. But when that guy asked my about it, I just told him: “Oh, I got a zero too lol, I think I got the formulas wrong, my bad lol.”

Way to go OP. Perfect setup, and a perfect score.

What do the comments think about this cheat code?

This person says, did the cheaters learn their lesson?

Someone else doesn’t buy the physics of this.

Someone says, this kid is a revenge whiz.

This poster thinks the student deserves a hundred.

Perfect formula for revenge.

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