My Confession

Dear Mum,

I was on facebook just a few minutes ago and came across this particular comic addressing someone cheating on a test then going to hell.

Well, I have a confession to make.


I cheated on my Yr 12 Psychology SAC.



There I said it.

You wouldn't really understand the reason why I did so though.


I thought my class was unfairly marked compared to the other class who achieved much higher grades. So I thought I'd prove something (which costed me by the way!).

My friend was in the other Psychology class and they did the SAC before we did. Somehow I didn't get to do the SAC in the scheduled time so I personally had to do it the following week. I think I was sick or something.

However my friend already got his SAC back and marked and received 19/20. That's pretty impressive. So I told my friend how this particular teacher is so strict and we can never get good marks with him. I mean how hard is Psychology anyway? So I thought of a plan to copy my friend's work, word from word and see what mark I will get with this teacher.

It was actually easy to cheat because I was sitting by myself at the back of the room and the teacher was continuing teaching the class about something new while I was writing away. I hid my friend's paper underneath and would occasionally glance over and see whether I was writing everything correctly (I tried to memorise as much as I could).


The end result?

13 out of 20.

I KNOW!


That is a difference of 6 marks. And here the teachers said that the two teachers will swap a few papers that have been marked to see if the marking is fair and reasonable, in which they mentioned that the difference was only about 1-2 marks which is fine.


Well Sir, this was definitely not fair. I don't care if the paper was worth only 13, my friend should only get 13 as well. This is why VCE is crap.

And plus, teachers were required to rank the students in their school for each subject and send it off to VCAA. Well there can be some bias happening that we didn't even know about.

I was a late bloomer for Specialist Maths where during the year, I was struggling pretty bad but then come practise exam period I received the highest mark for the Non-calc exam. I got the same score in the actual exam. The ranking would've definitely had an effect on my standing and study score I received, which was bulldust.


Anyway, ranting nearly over, in conclusion, I couldn't really prove anything when I cheated on the Psychology SAC because I would have either received a 0 for the SAC if I mentioned it to the teachers, or even worse get expelled and not even be able to finish my degree and get a job.

Since it is now in the past, I thought I'd let it out at how unfair the education system is.
Not that I care now, I'll become a millionaire and you can't do anything about it.

Talk about millionaire, KEVIN AND I JUST BOUGHT A HOUSE!

Take that VCE teachers! I've got my life sorted without the extra 6 marks!

Love you always,

Your daughter Anna ♥