Timeline for How do you call the act of missing class/lectures/lessons and cheat on a test?
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| Nov 2, 2020 at 23:48 | vote | accept | Duck | ||
| Nov 1, 2020 at 20:45 | answer | added | James K | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 1, 2020 at 18:38 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @WeatherVane: Way back when I was a first-year student at uni, there was one girl who was repeating her first year because she'd failed first time around. Presumably she didn't cheat (or didn't cheat well enough!). She was a perfectly pleasant girl, but obviously not bright enough to get through a degree course. Perhaps she only managed to be there at all because she cheated in her school exams. But I certainly remember feeling sorry for her - she was a real "fish out of water", who eventually ended up leaving before reaching the end of her second attempt. | |
| Nov 1, 2020 at 17:14 | comment | added | Weather Vane | @FumbleFingersReinstateMonica they do it in the same way: by cheating, and feeding off others' ability. Such people often get rapid promotion out of harm's way, and can do very well. Or they gain employment through nepotism. | |
| Nov 1, 2020 at 17:08 | comment | added | Duck | @FumbleFingersReinstateMonica - believe me, some people will do anything. | |
| Nov 1, 2020 at 16:49 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | (btw - cheating in academic tests sounds like a pretty dumb life strategy to me. Who wants to end up in a job they're actually not sufficiently clever / educated to do properly?) | |
| Nov 1, 2020 at 16:43 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | But I don't really see a question here! Unless you're asking for "idiomatic" alternatives to the natural words you and I have just used. For example, some (mainly British) kids might still talk about bunking off school in general, some specific subject, or a single lesson. But that's pretty old slang, and I don't know what the kids today would say instead. And playing truant sounded positively Victorian to me even way back when I was a schoolboy! | |
| Nov 1, 2020 at 16:30 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Nov 1, 2020 at 16:12 | comment | added | Duck | thanks. please make it an answer. | |
| Nov 1, 2020 at 16:06 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | We say it exactly as you wrote - missing / skipping classes, and cheating in tests. | |
| Nov 1, 2020 at 15:57 | history | asked | Duck | CC BY-SA 4.0 |