Apr 26 2010How To: Cheat On A Test With A Coke Bottle

These are instructions on how to make a Coke bottle cheat sheet. Admittedly it's pretty ingenious, but I don't promote cheating. I never cheated in school. If I wasn't prepared for a test I would fail the shit out of it with flying colors plus draw a couple penises. Sure I bombed a couple college courses, but I did it all on my own, with my own brain. I knew cheaters. And you know where they are now? They sure as hell aren't level 80 bloggers! They're all turning tricks on skid row, willing to do anything for a buck. I'm talking footjobs in the backs of cars even. Stay in school, kids!
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The Coke Bottle Cheat Sheet [gizmodo]
Thanks to PhilRules, who's a professor and once caught a student with a Jim Beam cheat sheet. Sounds like my evil twin.

Reader Comments
1. Ryas - April 26, 2010 8:30 PM
FIRST : THIS IS SO OLD
2. truth lies - April 26, 2010 8:32 PM
woo i cant help it first, and yay coke cheats
3. truth lies - April 26, 2010 8:32 PM
lol darn
4. Durand - April 26, 2010 8:34 PM
While I have previously seen this, I'd rather not complain about how old it is, or announce the position of my comment, as those two ideas are signs of douchery.
@1:
To shout "FIRST" implies you frequent this site often enough to comment before anybody else, yet you complain about its content. That's some kind of hypocrisy.
5. Jess - April 26, 2010 8:35 PM
This is why they don't allow bottles to testing sites anymore.
6. Angel Mass - April 26, 2010 8:37 PM
I think we have many IAB users here
7. they're real and they're spectacular - April 26, 2010 8:37 PM
That doesn't work anymore, they caught a few people and now all water bottles are banned from major exams. Besides which, wouldn't the examiner notice you peeling the wrapper off and copying from it? Go the smart route, they won't be able to prove anything if you just take some ADHD meds. Do it now, before they start requiring blood tests as well as everything else.
8. gilgamesh - April 26, 2010 8:38 PM
this is noice. i am in high school and my teachers are naive and let food in. THIS SAVES ME IN SPAINISH. thank you geekologie writer
9. gilgamesh - April 26, 2010 8:39 PM
why would you peel off the wrapper? you just read it off the bottle
10. they're real and they're spectacular - April 26, 2010 8:40 PM
@ 8, don't try it on the ACTs
11. Vaganza - April 26, 2010 8:41 PM
Peeling what label off what? Did you even actually look at it? The point is you don't have to pull the label off.
12. they're real and they're spectacular - April 26, 2010 8:48 PM
@9, 11, I didn't read the instructions on the photo, c'mon, they're tiny. In any case, they're still going to notice you peering at your coke bottle to see the tiny print. AND they don't let you bring stuff in, because the low tech solution was to take off the label and write on the back. No matter how elegant this solution is, the prior idiots have ruined it, and possibly also their own lives.
13. NaKAhi70 - April 26, 2010 8:53 PM
hahaha fucken brilliant
14. Curtis Jackson - April 26, 2010 8:54 PM
@12, just shut the hell up, why would you be PEERING at a coke bottle to read off it? Stop arguing and trying to look smart cause your not helping..you put the god damn bottle on the god damn table and you just look at it like a normal person does...not frickin PEER at it like a pedo...lol
15. Durand - April 26, 2010 9:05 PM
@14 Because the print is small, you'd have to focus on it to read it, and any idiot is going to notice a student staring intently and focusing on a coke bottle of all things during a test.
16. Gulf_Breeze_GoToSchoolHigh - April 26, 2010 9:06 PM
I don't read previous comments so if someone has already said this I couldn't care less.
That's why coke/water/liquid containing containers are prohibited during testing.
17. they're real and they're spectacular - April 26, 2010 9:16 PM
@14, I am smart, I don't have to try, unlike you, f*cktard. I bet you'd be the one to trying this, or probably something even stupider since you think this is such a good idea. Go throw away your life, but don't get your panties in a wad because there are people whose whole vocabulary doesn't consist of words of one syllable.
18. they're real and they're spectacular - April 26, 2010 9:16 PM
@14, I am smart, I don't have to try, unlike you, f*cktard. I bet you'd be the one to trying this, or probably something even stupider since you think this is such a good idea. Go throw away your life, but don't get your panties in a wad because there are people whose whole vocabulary doesn't consist of words of one syllable.
19. they're real and they're spectacular - April 26, 2010 9:20 PM
wow, I guess I defeated my own purpose with the double posting, but my computer is really slow. I'll have to remember not to reload the page next time.
20. Cody - April 26, 2010 9:39 PM
Holy crap, is it 2001? This is so, so old. This is before the internet.
21. Colonel sanders - April 26, 2010 11:11 PM
Dude this is before coke existed.
22. suomynonA - April 26, 2010 11:43 PM
What everyone else said, about it being like the OLDEST thing ever. Even older than your precious dinosaurs. :O
23. B - April 26, 2010 11:58 PM
Looks cool, but they've been making people peel off the labels since like '99.
24. SydneyTPM - April 27, 2010 2:10 AM
dude.... old.
25. Tash - April 27, 2010 2:55 AM
We're allowed to have water bottles at our exams, but the teachers check them.. The candy too, since some dude tried to modify the candy wrapper.
I don't cheat, instead I write "42" on every question I don't know. Unfortunatley, my teachers have no sense of humor.
26. Science_GUY95 - April 27, 2010 3:18 AM
@ the cheaters who might think this is "cool" or "useful," here's a little perspective from someone who has taught science and math before.
When you cheat, it stays with you. Not in any sense of moral structure, but rather in the sense that one of two practical things will happen. Either 1) you get caught, and deal with the fact that it stands on your record forever (yes, colleges *do* care why you fail certain courses, or why you decided to cheat on the SAT or ACT, or the GRE (are you really that stupid?!) and you'll have to explain it if you plan on doing more than mopping the floors at some diner, or 2) you don't get caught. In the latter case, maybe you feel good. Invincible. Like you beat the system. Hey, maybe the system owes you because you have a hard life, or you think you deserve it because you pay too much in taxes, or your parents wouldn't let you do one thing or another, or you got a speeding ticket and you want to stick it to the man. But that feeling will fade, and maybe you'll try it again. And again in one way or another. Maybe some day you pad your resume a little with skills that you don't actually have because hey, you deserve that job after all, right? And who wants to learn statistics and finance, or calculus, or god forbid, physics, right? Right. So you nip a little off here, tuck a little in there, and before you know it you appear to be the perfect candidate. Until the day those skills you've faked, or the work you claimed was yours when your lab partner actually did all the work, or the death in the family you lied about to get that extension on that lab report, because you came to class with a hangover and forgot. It'll catch up with you one day in a big way. It's not morality at work. It's not karma, or some cosmic retribution. It's good old, practical, shooting yourself in the foot. And when you are asking someone if they want fries with that, wondering why you can never retire because you don't have a job with good benefits, you can thank yourself for that day you cheated on the biology quiz, or wrote easy to remember formulas on a stupid coke bottle.
If you keep making those stupid mistakes you are just making it easier for those of us who work hard to surpass you in every way. And believe me when I say that I'm not trying to act superior or smug. I'm speaking from experience, as both a former student and a former instructor. I've faced the peer pressure of friends who cheated on tests and urged me to do it too. But I didn't cave and now I'm creeping up on six figures, even in a down economy. Both of them struggle to net 35k, and they break their backs to keep their families fed. Do the work now, while you're young and it's easier. It only gets harder, and sucks worse, from this point forward.
27. Matthew - April 27, 2010 3:24 AM
This is old.
Very old.
And I agree with 26.
28. Dean Graziosis Scam review - April 27, 2010 5:19 AM
Hey this is truly a new and very different way of cheating which I have ever seen.I have not even heard about this cheating.I like that you have explained it very well with these snapshots so it is easy to understand.
29. Andrew - April 27, 2010 6:34 AM
@26 you sir are a fool if you think people who do blag and talk up their skills don't earn 3 times more then you do.
30. Mr.Q - April 27, 2010 8:16 AM
This is not really that new... I did the same thing with a water bottle least year. I erased all the ingredients and replaced them with formulas.
31. ikon810 - April 27, 2010 9:23 AM
Professors have actually begun to check for this! I had some verify that the label is legit while others require that all drinks be placed in front of the class during the exams.
32. komodo30000 - April 27, 2010 9:36 AM
this is so very old. its on instructables.com
33. paul. - April 27, 2010 10:25 AM
The only awesome way to cheat is to buy a few of those clear hexagonal plastic BIC pens, print your answers onto six thin slices of paper using 1pt font and slide that shit right into the pen, the curvature magnifies the answers like on an old glass thermometer. With six sides of answers per pen, I usually only need 2 pens per test.
Suck it memorization.
34. Hellaphunt - April 27, 2010 10:44 AM
@26 - Well put, but you should know, in a life that's not fair, 2/5 cheaters prosper. This article does well to encourage cheating. Shame on you, Geeko.
35. AnonymousTeacher - April 27, 2010 11:56 AM
@33 Great, now I'm going to have to check all my students bottles AND pens before the test. I hope you are one of my students so I can catch you.
36. Raven1666 - April 27, 2010 1:32 PM
this is old... i did this in HS 1999-2003 XP
37. bar room hero - April 27, 2010 1:40 PM
I wish I had this idea when I was at Uni...
F-n standard deviation...
38. Troll - April 27, 2010 6:08 PM
Shut the fuck up anonymousteacher
you can suck my long fat dick bitch
39. Science_GUY95 - April 28, 2010 6:42 AM
@34 Isn't that the truth!
@29 what does "blag" mean?
@33 fair enough. I'm not sweating it.
@35 The only thing that's worked for me is to ban everything during an exam: ball caps, phones, earbuds, drink/food, and having proctors walk around the room checking hands and laps. It sucks that a very few ruin it for everyone. Garbage like this coke bottle idea is one more thing on top of all the rest that really isn't worth the investment of time when you put it against the cost.
40. Dr. Nappy - April 28, 2010 10:03 AM
Footjob?
41. S. - April 28, 2010 3:18 PM
Hey 17! its MORE STUPID. How do I know this you ask?
Well my friend,I'm a grammar
patrol officer person thing.*Holds out badge*Yeah Baby!
42. they're real and they're spectacular - May 1, 2010 12:32 AM
@41, and yet, you didn't notice a more glaring mistake, "you'd be the one to trying this"
43. anmarie - June 8, 2010 3:35 PM
well i got a few tricks .. kind first base BUT WORK LIKE HELL
1) locate somone who can pass the test , easily . then text him to walk in onto the class room and distract the teacher .. (the most thing that worked for me was a girl asking our teacher for tampons) and so on when no one is watching u . ask around or use notes
2) take a paper roll or a tissue box into class . write on stick notes ur notes for the exam . tape them on each tissue in order (so u dont get lost ) and pull . read . rub ur nose with it and throw away , carfull it can be tricky to do this to often
2) write on stick paper and place it on the inside of ur pencil bag and fill it with pencil's and u know the rest
3) the folding pen trick : take any pen that u can see through the thin ink layer , remove it and tape around it the martial u want
4)draft messages onto ur cellphone . and check time every few minutes and read them . (keep it hidden so the teacher dont see the screen*
5) the bra check : this one i enjoy coz my teacher cant catch me even if he knew what i was doing) simple .. place the paper onto the inside of ur bra and just fix ur bra every few seconds
5) the shoes :) at the beggning of the test , place the post it notes onto ur shoe back and there u have it
urm .. i joke around alot in the exam so teachers dont give a fuck about watching me
use more that one method per exam . so u dont stay shifted onto one place , move alot it makes a teacher less edgy about a certain spot ur looking at
sit in the places that the teacher wont move u from to re arrange the classroom so ur notes are safely placed and hidden and u stay relaxed
yes my methods are not collage material but if u dont like them its ur choice ..
they worked great for me
44. Feune - June 29, 2010 7:43 PM
Worked like a charm.
Here's a link to a template of the coke bottle label that I made.
JPEG: http://rapidshare.com/files/403935170/Always_Coca_Cola.jpg
PSD: http://rapidshare.com/files/403935874/Always_Coca_Cola.psd
If printed on Glossy Paper in high resolution (I used 600 dpi), looks EXACTLY the same.
Happy Cheating everyone.
45. viktoria - July 29, 2010 9:04 PM
haha, if you only used the effort it took to make that make that, studying instead, i bet you wouldn't need to cheat :p
46. Lyss goes off topic - February 22, 2011 4:06 PM
Back in my day we just took the "study a bit and hope for the best" approach ;)
47. Cayleigh - February 25, 2011 1:05 AM
I don't understand why you wouldn't just take all that time you put into taking the wrapper off, scanning, retyping, reprinting and glueing into actually studying for the test. It might help you more and if you get caught your screwed. God kids are so freakin lazy nowadays or they waste their time doing shit like this.