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I don't get it. If she called you too it was because your results were good, no? Who cheats to get a bad result?

I assume that the cheating student didn't know that he was copying answers from someone who was doing poorly. It was third graders after all; one wouldn't necessarily expect them to be able to pick the best target every time.

Oh. That would have never crossed my mind! So the cheater student was copying from GP who had worse results, and when they both redid it all by themselves the cheater answered correctly, and GP did not.

How the heck is that even possible? :o

> How the heck is that even possible? :o

Because what the cheater is trying to accomplish is to avoid having to think.

It's an act motivated by either laziness, apathy or rebellion (or some combination thereof). Not motivated by trying to get a good grade.

The students had identical answers, I presume

Which, in a subject like algebra, is extremely suspicious ("how could both of them get the exact same WRONG answer?").

> Which, in a subject like algebra, is extremely suspicious ("how could both of them get the exact same WRONG answer?").

In Germany, the traditional sharp-tongued answer of pupils to the question "How could both of you get the exact same WRONG answer (in the test)?" is: "Well, we both have the same teacher." :-)

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