How We Passed Exams: Stories from Megaplan Employees
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 6:41 am
January 25 is one of the most joyful holidays — Student's Day. For many, it brings back funny memories. Megaplan employees were also students once. We asked them to tell us how they passed their exams and got by during their sessions. Almost all of these stories ended successfully. Often, resourcefulness and charisma saved the day — one of our employees managed to pass philosophy knowing only one quote from Schopenhauer. Sometimes, luck helped — for example, a severe frost. And already in their student years, it was clear what kind of employees they would be — how they would solve complex problems, communicate with colleagues, and react to stress.
Wanted to fix a C, failed two exams
We had a case like this in our group: a classmate didn't want to hand in a term paper with a C, so he decided to redo it. As a result, not only did he forget about it, but he also failed two more exams. Thinking that it would be better to close the gap with the term paper, he decided to hand it in as is. But when he came to the department, he was horrified to learn that the teacher had retired from that day. Fortunately, our classmate worked as a lab assistant at that department - she found the teacher, and he gave him a B retroactively. For the intention or as a sign of goodwill, I don't know.
Vyacheslav, developer
Fives only for boys
Fives only for boys
Our political science teacher gave 4 and higher grades exclusively to guys. Maybe it's not a very interesting story, but I'm still angry!
Alena, Head of Technical Support Department
If you can't cheat, don't try it.
I can't cheat at all, so I didn't even try to get my phone out at university. But once uganda whatsapp list after a dictation, my friend and I decided to check how to spell beletage (even though we wrote it correctly). As soon as I got my phone out, observers came up to me and took my work, even though it seemed like they were very far away. But everything ended well in the end: I went to my teacher and confessed and explained that I hadn't even corrected anything. The dictation was accepted.
Oksana, Junior Editor
Don't start the exam without reading the Lord's Prayer.
At our university, the philosophy teacher was a very religious woman. At the exam, you could only pull out a ticket after you recited the "Our Father" to her. And God forbid you make a mistake or mix something up. Girls were required to wear a headscarf. For a short skirt, she could not allow you to take the exam or kick you out. If the grade was questionable, she could ask you to cross yourself correctly. In general, she had her own cockroaches in her head. But if you played along with her religious beliefs, the grade was good.
Andrey, Senior Sales Manager
No bribes
One teacher didn't like me. I was into heavy rock music and looked the part. But he liked money and asked for it for passing the exam. I refused. I decided on principle not to pay money at the university. I went to take the exam twice, answered all the questions, but he didn't count my passing. The third time I came in a short skirt, heels and a completely transparent blouse. I sat close in front of him - the exam was passed with flying colors.
Natalia, Head of Sales Department
Excellent students don't need notes
I was taking a state exam. I prepared. I took a ticket, normal questions. I sat, wrote notes. I sat down to answer. There were three teachers on the committee. One was loyal to me, one was neutral. And the third was a complete stranger, not from our university. I put the notes in front of me and began to answer confidently. And then the stranger said to me: are you going to graduate with honors? I was like: well, yeah. She: then put the notes away and speak without notes. Otherwise, we won’t give you an A! That’s when everything inside me broke. My voice trembled. I was stressed, all my confidence evaporated.
Sergey, CEO
The main thing is to add water
Once we took an exam with a good teacher, whom everyone loved. It so happened that he was clearly in a bad mood that day. He failed three excellent students right before calling me. I knew only one question from the exam - about the printing margin standards (I studied publishing). I didn't study the second question at all. I began confidently telling that the upper margin in the standard is 2 centimeters, and that's 20 millimeters! And so for each size I repeated in centimeters, millimeters, a couple of times I even counted in meters in front of him. It was all fluff. A lot of fluff to drag out time. I went through the standards of a couple of publications in this way and he was distracted, called to the department. When he returned, he gave me an A without any unnecessary questions and sent me out for a walk. Lucky!
Wanted to fix a C, failed two exams
We had a case like this in our group: a classmate didn't want to hand in a term paper with a C, so he decided to redo it. As a result, not only did he forget about it, but he also failed two more exams. Thinking that it would be better to close the gap with the term paper, he decided to hand it in as is. But when he came to the department, he was horrified to learn that the teacher had retired from that day. Fortunately, our classmate worked as a lab assistant at that department - she found the teacher, and he gave him a B retroactively. For the intention or as a sign of goodwill, I don't know.
Vyacheslav, developer
Fives only for boys
Fives only for boys
Our political science teacher gave 4 and higher grades exclusively to guys. Maybe it's not a very interesting story, but I'm still angry!
Alena, Head of Technical Support Department
If you can't cheat, don't try it.
I can't cheat at all, so I didn't even try to get my phone out at university. But once uganda whatsapp list after a dictation, my friend and I decided to check how to spell beletage (even though we wrote it correctly). As soon as I got my phone out, observers came up to me and took my work, even though it seemed like they were very far away. But everything ended well in the end: I went to my teacher and confessed and explained that I hadn't even corrected anything. The dictation was accepted.
Oksana, Junior Editor
Don't start the exam without reading the Lord's Prayer.
At our university, the philosophy teacher was a very religious woman. At the exam, you could only pull out a ticket after you recited the "Our Father" to her. And God forbid you make a mistake or mix something up. Girls were required to wear a headscarf. For a short skirt, she could not allow you to take the exam or kick you out. If the grade was questionable, she could ask you to cross yourself correctly. In general, she had her own cockroaches in her head. But if you played along with her religious beliefs, the grade was good.
Andrey, Senior Sales Manager
No bribes
One teacher didn't like me. I was into heavy rock music and looked the part. But he liked money and asked for it for passing the exam. I refused. I decided on principle not to pay money at the university. I went to take the exam twice, answered all the questions, but he didn't count my passing. The third time I came in a short skirt, heels and a completely transparent blouse. I sat close in front of him - the exam was passed with flying colors.
Natalia, Head of Sales Department
Excellent students don't need notes
I was taking a state exam. I prepared. I took a ticket, normal questions. I sat, wrote notes. I sat down to answer. There were three teachers on the committee. One was loyal to me, one was neutral. And the third was a complete stranger, not from our university. I put the notes in front of me and began to answer confidently. And then the stranger said to me: are you going to graduate with honors? I was like: well, yeah. She: then put the notes away and speak without notes. Otherwise, we won’t give you an A! That’s when everything inside me broke. My voice trembled. I was stressed, all my confidence evaporated.
Sergey, CEO
The main thing is to add water
Once we took an exam with a good teacher, whom everyone loved. It so happened that he was clearly in a bad mood that day. He failed three excellent students right before calling me. I knew only one question from the exam - about the printing margin standards (I studied publishing). I didn't study the second question at all. I began confidently telling that the upper margin in the standard is 2 centimeters, and that's 20 millimeters! And so for each size I repeated in centimeters, millimeters, a couple of times I even counted in meters in front of him. It was all fluff. A lot of fluff to drag out time. I went through the standards of a couple of publications in this way and he was distracted, called to the department. When he returned, he gave me an A without any unnecessary questions and sent me out for a walk. Lucky!