At every level of education, people fear exams and can use any possible means to pass.
The methods may range from reading-hard work- to stealing- reaping from where one has not sown. In most campuses, (I am saying most because thieves are probably everywhere), there are three main ways of how students steal exams. Explore them with me.
Google must be a woman because it (she) knows everything. It is very strong and popular. As such, Google is preferred over other methods as it is in most cases reliable (sometimes can give you the wrong things though), depending on the website one opens.
I know of a journalism student (it is not good to mention names in such stories) who, when asked what 'casting' means in film went ahead to ask the (un)reliable uncle, 'What is casting?' Straight he went into writing “Casting is a manufacturing process in which a liquid material is usually poured into a mold..." and he went on and on.
I think he passes highly. Of course mobile phones are hard to hide especially when an examiner is around. Students put on clothes whose colour blend well with the phones colour. You will wonder why student A - like the one we shared a first year class with - would put on a white pair of trousers during the exam period. He used a Samsung galaxy pocket-white in colour.
Then there is the mwakenya. Works more or less the same like Google but in a hard copy form. Small pieces of paper containing volumes of information are used. Probably, only the writer can read what they wrote as the font used might be less than size four (But the user does not strain).
However, it is hard to use depending on its location and the possible position of the examiner.
Giraffing We all probably know this tall animal called a giraffe. Ok, if you have never seen it, you have been lucky to see a photograph or even hear story about it. The giraffe camelopardalis (as it is known scientifically) is tall, very tall - I know your sources also said it was tall. Here, the longer the neck and the bigger the zooming power of one's eyes determines their success. Of course, this is the safest method as far as evidence of cheating is required. But what happens in case you sit next to someone who wants to giraffe, are you not in trouble?