Doesn't everybody pull stunts like that...when they can't be arsed?
I did a similar thing with both my Higher English and my CSYS Computing.
For my Higher English, i generally couldn't be bothered but i had to do a RPR (essentially a critical analysis of personal reading) as it accounted for a third of the marks. I never bothered handing in a rough draft and just vaguely murmured something to my English teacher when she brought the subject up.
It eventually got to two weeks after the thing was due in before i produced a final draft in a couple of hours entitled something like 'The use of contrast in the Martian landscape as a thematic metaphor in Kim Stanley Robinson's Green Mars'. After giving it a preliminary mark of an 'A' she was suitably impressed. She'd written me off long ago as a deadloss.
I neglected to mention to her that i'd made up the all of the quotes used or that i'd simply regurgitated an idea i'd touched upon in an essay i did at Standard Grade on the preceding title in the trilogy - the rules only stated you weren't allowed to use a text you'd read at S-Grade. Nothing in there about sequels...
As for my CSYS Computing, that was a damn sight more dangerous as the project was assessed by a visiting examiner who would discuss your project with you - in our case a lecturer in computing at one of the local uni's.
I managed to get away with it despite simply printing off some suitably impressive proggie i'd written in (IIRC) Z80 Assembler years before hand as well as making up the test data and documentation a few days before it had to be handed in. I was helped by the fact the assessor didn't actually get to see the code in action - it only bore a passing resemblance to what i said it did. I got 34 out of 40 for that...
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I did a similar thing with both my Higher English and my CSYS Computing.
For my Higher English, i generally couldn't be bothered but i had to do a RPR (essentially a critical analysis of personal reading) as it accounted for a third of the marks. I never bothered handing in a rough draft and just vaguely murmured something to my English teacher when she brought the subject up.
It eventually got to two weeks after the thing was due in before i produced a final draft in a couple of hours entitled something like 'The use of contrast in the Martian landscape as a thematic metaphor in Kim Stanley Robinson's Green Mars'. After giving it a preliminary mark of an 'A' she was suitably impressed. She'd written me off long ago as a deadloss.
I neglected to mention to her that i'd made up the all of the quotes used or that i'd simply regurgitated an idea i'd touched upon in an essay i did at Standard Grade on the preceding title in the trilogy - the rules only stated you weren't allowed to use a text you'd read at S-Grade. Nothing in there about sequels...
As for my CSYS Computing, that was a damn sight more dangerous as the project was assessed by a visiting examiner who would discuss your project with you - in our case a lecturer in computing at one of the local uni's.
I managed to get away with it despite simply printing off some suitably impressive proggie i'd written in (IIRC) Z80 Assembler years before hand as well as making up the test data and documentation a few days before it had to be handed in. I was helped by the fact the assessor didn't actually get to see the code in action - it only bore a passing resemblance to what i said it did. I got 34 out of 40 for that...