I wasn't particularly aware of cheating going on in exams until I studied in France for a year as part of my degree.
Students at the political studies institute would paste crib sheets plastered with answers scribbled in tiny handwriting into the dictionaries they were allowed to take into exams, or stuff them up sleeves and down socks. It was so unbelievably blatant I was constantly surprised they weren't caught.
If they tried it in England today, they might not have been so lucky. An exam board is using James Bond-style technical gadgetry to stop cheating among the 1.1 million pupils taking GCSE and A-level exams this summer.
Thousands of teenagers cheat each year. The most common tactic is taking a mobile phone into the exam room to text questions to friends or surf the internet for answers.
It's something exam boards want to see stamped out, not to mention the vast majority of teenagers who work hard for their exams and don't cheat.
The exam board Edexcel says technology is the answer and it had "no serious incidents" last year after employing more of it. But is it really the technology that counts or the idea that teenagers are more likely to get caught that will stop them trying to cheat in the first place?
Do you have any experience of cheating? Have you seen anyone do it? Does it bug you if they don't get caught? Or dare you admit to having cheated? Can you add any more top tips to the ones posted on YouTube earlier this year?
