Interesting Examination Occasions

“Have a good dream please!”

Well “Good kids never cheat at examinations” won’t function at all in modern times. As I was still in the primary school and throughout out my middle school, I never even thought of cheat and of course also dare not. This could be simply explained as “At Zhangs there’s no such tradition ever” according to my father. But he didn’t even attend a high school, how could he know how hard the life has become since we went to universities? People have to date girls and take part in various social activities and over night the exams are again in front of the door! During my campus life in China we prepared all kinds of notes either on a small piece of paper or in terms of “tattoo” and people at the exams sometimes suggest the exam supervisors to have a cigarette outside, or read themselves some newspapers or take a fresh walk for healthy reasons…. This wouldn’t function for the most of the time of course, but conveyed the professor a hint that they would “commit crime” at the exams. But if the supervisor didn’t understand us well, somebody was going to have pity or even face very serious warning, which may have bad influences on his whole life after university.
Here in Germany somehow I would like to describe the situation as half and half. According to the full experience of one German friend, you really need to be careful with the supervisor (who’s frequently also the assistant of exact the professor and gives us lectures) whose lessons turn out to be too quiet as students don’t buy his offer, this guy sometimes wants a revenge for it. In other cases the supervisor would really be very nice and I even remembered once that the guy claimed:”if you do it, do it well and don’t get caught; if you are stupid enough to be caught, I will have to let you sit in the first row”. Basing on this insurance, everybody performed well and in a pleasant way:)
Cheat is surely no good but some lectures are indeed only made up of either nonsenses or too theoretic contents which you have to remember all by heart and after the exam everything again out of mind at an awesome speed. For these exams, I would support and understand the students when I look back to those days of mine.