Spent a large part of this morning / afternoon (in between classes and tutoring and assembly) grading papers. Two students managed to get the exact same grade, a 35.
The same students missed the exact problems on the front page. They had the exact same wrong answers. Their short answer questions had the exact same form. They picked the same questions for their long answer essays, and both said the same inane things. (Oh, and the background obvious question, yes, they say next to one oanother during the test).
The real question, natch, is why would you bother to cheat off of someone who got a 35? Or if this is the collective product of two minds, do they really deserve a 17.5 each?
As it turns out, I let them off with a big warning, said it looked bad and they should sit apart from one another in the future, and oh by the way you're both failing and won't graduate. So I didn't really punish them for it - you know the old adage:
"It ain't cheating if you don't pass."
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