For English essays, he built a Markov chain bot that rephrased SparkNotes into a unique, undetectable slurry of B+ prose. For history, he found the pattern in multiple-choice tests — answer C was correct 62% of the time on Tuesdays. For chemistry, he didn’t learn the periodic table; he learned the teacher’s grading script, which weighted final answers 90% and showed no work.
High school was harder. The teachers had firewalls. But Leo had workarounds. 1337 cheats
The problem came in the form of Dr. Mina Al-Farsi, his AP Physics teacher. She didn’t use Scantrons. She didn’t post answer keys. She gave handwritten, open-ended problems about friction and orbital mechanics, each one slightly different for every student. For English essays, he built a Markov chain
He failed the first test. Then the second. High school was harder