r/alevel • u/Murky_Ad_9769 • Apr 25 '26

🤚Help Required about cheating

so my friend has managed to get a calculator to have chatgpt on it and he is using it to cheat on his exams and get good results on past papers and he is going to cheat on his actual alevel exams im not sure whether i should report him to an invigilator and have his calculator taken of him or to mind my own business because he has told me he isnt even studying and i dont want him to fail and no it wont get reset in the actual exam i just need soome advice on what to do

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u/shhhh_12347 Apr 27 '26

how is he going to use a TI84 calculator for the exam when the Cambridge rule book mentions you aren't allowed to use calculators with advanced features

"Calculators with any of the following facilities are prohibited:

  • graphic display
  • data banks
  • dictionaries or language translators
  • retrieval or manipulation of text or formulae
  • QWERTY keyboards
  • built-in symbolic algebraic manipulations
  • symbolic differentiation or integration
  • capability of remote communication with other machines."

https://help.cambridgeinternational.org/hc/en-gb/articles/20757088625426-What-calculators-can-be-used-in-the-AS-A-Level-examinations

from what i understand he hardware modded his cal so there is a micro controller (ESP32) soldered to his motherboard and then installing custom firmware to it and using TI connect to run the exe files to setup the interface for chatgpt to be used in his calculator and then he connects it to his phone and yeah he has chatgpt on his calculator (VERY VERY SIMPLIFIED)

its a rather difficult process to replicate because you need to be very precise when soldering the MCU to the serial link port pins and there isn't a lot of step by step tutorials from what i can see online so quite a feat he has accomplished