Is this plagiarism in HSC? (1 Viewer)

[psmao]

Hey guys,
just out of curiosity, suppose my tutor anticipated a question in English HSC exam and I (superluckily) got the same question, I just chuck in the full-mark essay I memorised (which is written by my tutor or I got from internet), would I get 0 or full mark?

 

[psmao]

Similarly, what about physics? I memorise the model answer from a text book and chuck it in

 

[sida1049]

It's not likely to be a big deal. The English essay scenario you came up with is hard to detect, since they'd need the original essay by your tutor and the marker must be aware of it, and the Physics scenario is pretty common already since the HSC courses are very rote-learning based.

 

[blyatman]

Yeh memorising and quoting essays aren't illegal, since it's not a take home assessment. Go ham.

 

[BLIT2014]

If your tutor wrote an essay for you that would constitute plagiarism if you wrote it in the HSC exam. Not that they would be likely to tell, however.

 

[psmao]

Yeh memorising and quoting essays aren't illegal, since it's not a take home assessment. Go ham.

what if I legit (hypothetically) memorised a good essay from internet?

 

[psmao]

would they literally do a plagiarism checking (like assessments) or they are just marking it

 

[blyatman]

Honestly it should be fine. I don't think the exam papers are scanned, and even if they are, they would need to use OCR on like 100,000 essays and then run them all through some plagiarism software. I'd seriously doubt they'd go to such lengths. If it was an assignment or a take home exam then maybe, but it's all sat under strict exam conditions so there's no reason they'd suspect plagiarism.

 

[Cherrybomb56]

what if I legit (hypothetically) memorised a good essay from internet?

they actually might check, it's better to get some ideas from there and try your own one, becuase if they find out there may be consequences. I don't want to scare you or something but just to be careful