I did have one student actually get up in the middle class and rant at me for five minutes for having the nerve to change the order of the answers in the multiple choice section, because he’d memorised the pattern of A,B,C,B,D,A,C,… from the previous year’s midterm, and I made him fail! He was going to file a complaint with the head of the University! He seemed to think this was an appropriate thing to do in the middle of a lecture with 80 other students all staring at him like he was some kind of alien. If I had’t known which test was his instantly (it’s hard to get a 1 out of 80 on my tests, but he put in the work and managed it), I’d have thought he was a student in the Drama department doing some kind of “getting over stage fright” exercise.
Of note, not only did I straight-up tell the whole class every year that I made fresh new midterms and exams (web design is a constantly changing field) to deal with course content changes, but I also tell them outright that there are at least two versions (usually more) of the test in the room, and that the tests next to them are different from their own. I had far too many people fail because they weren’t willing to read their own questions, and due to assigned seating, I could track who they copied their answers from.
There’s always going to be people who don’t pay any attention to anything, and no amount of waving it in front of them, jumping up and down and waving your arms, and yelling it are going to get them to notice. (I tried that one year, still had four people fail because they wouldn’t read their own tests.)
