Cheating During Testing: Teacher, Snitches, and Anxiety

Read direction before distance

The official objective is to avoid being seen by the teacher. Public walkthroughs repeatedly treat the teacher’s head or facing direction as the clearest immediate cue. That matters because distance alone can be misleading: a close teacher looking elsewhere may be less risky than a distant teacher looking directly at your desk.

Use a simple scan before every exposed action:

1. Where is the teacher?
2. Which way is the teacher facing?
3. Is the teacher moving or settled?
4. Can you finish one action and return to the paper?

The lower-risk choice is to wait when the teacher is moving toward you or facing you. The videos show useful openings while attention is elsewhere, but they do not establish a permanent detection radius or guaranteed safe timer.

Keep actions short

Greed is the common failure pattern shown in score-focused walkthroughs. One opening becomes two, the teacher turns, and a good run ends. Treat each opening as permission for one brief action, then reset.

Other players can temporarily change what you can see, and the teacher may move after targeting someone. Re-scan instead of assuming the last safe angle is still safe.

Manage Anxiety as part of the loop

The official listing says Anxiety must be managed throughout the exam. Two walkthroughs show Anxiety falling when the player returns attention to the paper and uses the pencil. This makes recovery an active step, not dead time.

If Anxiety rises:

• stop chaining exposed actions;
• face the paper and use the observed recovery state;
• keep the teacher in peripheral view when possible;
• wait for a fresh opening.

No official threshold table was found, so this page does not claim an exact safe percentage.

What Snitches change

The official game description warns that Snitches can sell players out for Credits. That makes nearby players part of the risk model. A seatmate copying a risky action is not proof that your own action is safe, and a stranger has an in-game incentive to report cheating.

With friends, agree on simple callouts and avoid exposing everyone at the same moment. With strangers, make decisions from the teacher’s state rather than following the crowd.

A conservative round plan

• Start by completing actions you can do while looking normal.
• Use the teacher’s facing direction to identify one opening.
• Reset and lower Anxiety.
• Re-check nearby players and teacher movement.
• Protect a completed paper instead of forcing a perfect result.

The beginner guide puts this into the full exam loop. Gadgets and Equipment covers the observed phone and pencil roles, while Playing With Friends separates confirmed multiplayer facts from team tactics.