(exercising necromancy again to raise the thread from the dead)
We had this situation on CS studies in numerical methods class and in metrology class. In both cases, most of the students fudged the data in the reports and/or just plainly copied stuff from what the previous year did.
I’ve never seen or heard of such a school, at least not in my country. Maybe vocational schools grade like that, but in high schools I know, there’s no fitting togetger, sanding, or measuring anything. It’s just memorizing theory and solving exercises.