[header] How to catch a student cheating on a written test [title] Prevention is better than cure. [step] Before the exam begins, ask for all mobile phones, electronic devices and textbooks to be placed on the teacher's desk. Have the students clear their desk of everything but their pencil case before you hand out the papers. 
[title] Remind the students of the rules and the penalties for cheating. [title] Separate the students or seat them in such a way that they cannot easily look onto one another's papers.