How to hack exam question papers

Hacker ... What a word. Because it is complicated, there is no unanimity in its origin. Urban legends are mixed with reality and it is impossible to know very well where it comes from. And what is worse, where is it.

Many people think that a hacker is a kind of pimp glued to a computer, fed by pizzas and living in a disastrous basement, full of rare posters and clutter around


Well, I think so, and no. There are hackers like that, and there are those who wear ties and dresses every day, hackers who on the street would not recognize them because they are dressed in brand skirts and perfect hair. Hackers that are able to spend a whole dinner telling jokes and others that are more boring than a desert in August at noon.

And what's worse, hackers who do not even know they are. Being a hacker is nothing more than the mental disposition to go one step beyond what is considered normal. Or was it not a step beyond Marie Skłodowska (AKA Madame Curie), who despite being a woman at a time when society relegated them to smaller positions (yes, more than now, imagine!) And insisted on to show that in the uranitita there was something strange and he called it "Radio"? Was not a step beyond a certain Leonardo da Vinci inventing machines that surprised everyone? Did not Panenka hack penalties at the European Championship in 1976?

That is being a hacker. Have a mental disposition that allows you to constantly ask yourself "what if ...?" Nowadays with the technology that we have been around for some time (I refuse to call them "new technologies") it is logical that those who do not distinguish ALT CTRL key and ⌘ be surprised by the hackers. If they discover a hacker in another field, they will simply be a clever guy.

But beware of smart guys. I have witnessed a guy who has managed to pass a university course by hacking the exams.

No, do not think that he has interfered with the faculty's servers, and thanks to a complex computer system he has downloaded the exams and prepared them at home. It is much simpler. It is, as I commented before, to look a little further, to give a return to what is pre-established and draw conclusions.

I give you an example. Imagine a question type test in an exam. It could be this:

• In the event that the fluctuation of the hemiproticulares is less than three times sigma:
• The sublimated forliates will never be discarded.
• A standard deviation greater than alpha will occur.
• Sunrise, which is no small thing.
• The prototherm will descend sharply

Let no one try to find the right answer, and if he does, I have not put enough nonsense. There is an answer that evidently is not correct. As much as we admire Jose Luis Cuerda, "Amanece, que no es poco" is not a valid answer. It usually happens, the teacher is out of imagination and puts nonsense as answers, that's not good.

Let's keep going. The first answer has an error. Put "... the forliants will be discarded ...". There is a serious mismatch error. If "forliatos" is plural, "discard" should be "discarded". And above, between "forliatos" and "sublimated" there are too many blank spaces. It is a sloppy response, which has not been paid attention to when writing it. Why? Because it is not correct. We already have two discarded.

And the last answer has a very silly mistake ... it lacks the final point. Let's see, or we'll put them all, or we'll take them all away. Another answer discarded. It is done without desire, without review, without a clear intention that the answer is very clear.

By discards (or by Tutatis), the valid one is the second one.

It seems simple, but it is now. You have to be a hacker, look a little beyond what you see with the naked eye and the world will open before us. We will discover new ways of doing things, either at the time of accessing a server or simply answering an exam.

To all this, the student who told me this, got an 8.75 on the exam. Which indicates that the system is not perfect, but enough so that in September it does not have to be examined without having studied in the whole course. He deserves it as a hacker, does not he?

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