Is it considered cheating to hear the answer to a difficult question from another student or from a supervisor, and then write it down on the exam paper?
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Writing the answer after unintentionally hearing it from some students, or when the teacher corrects a mistake and the student writes the correct answer based on that, is not considered forbidden cheating.
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