<p>at my school, its so bad, literally everyone cheats. they:
-copy homework
-copy on tests
-remember answers on assessments, and then give them to friends in later periods
-some teachers use the same tests and quizzes year after year, so friends or siblings in higher grades save everything and then give it to younger students
-stealing the test/quizzes in advanced
…the list goes on but its bad. and its even worse that its normal. i mean, there is one kid, who has never gotten a B, throughout middle and high school. and everyone knows him as the smartest in our year, and guess what…he cheats too!</p>
<p>In 8th grade, there was an open ended question on a social studies test i had no idea about. I opened up the textbook underneath my desk and found the answer. I did not get caught, the teacher was so oblivious lol</p>
<p>I have copied homework when I know the material and it’s mindless busywork, but not cheated on a test. Test cheating is a major source of irritation for me, especially as I see it all the time and it is how many of the ‘smart’ people get good grades here.</p>
<p>All the “top” and “smart” kids cheat at my school. I see a guy who got into MIT early action cheat on every single self-graded test. He also got into Cornell, upenn, dartmouth, and a few others. Another girl from my school who just got into Harvard also cheated on some AP US/GOV exam. I was pretty shocked by it at first, but I stopped caring and my respect for them slowly went away.</p>
<p>Everyone cheats but not like that. Collaborating on homework (copying homework / getting people to do hw for you), skipping test days and asking friends what was on it, some instances of plagiarism (most caught though). I saw a guy cheat on the AMC, he made AIME. Identical score as top scorer on the exact same questions, same incorrect questions. >_></p>
<p>Less of the direct cheating, though.</p>
<p>You don’t need to get an A on every assignment. If you didn’t study for a quiz, suck it up and get the D+. You can still get an A in the class no problem at all.</p>
<p>One of my friends has the answers to all of my English teacher’s tests and quizzes. Our teacher uses the same tests each year, and my friend got the answers from one of the students from last year.</p>
<p>But now that I think about it, I probably cheat in almost every class. Feelsbadman. My friends and I whisper answers to each other during tests, and we sometimes change our answers when we have to grade a test or quiz right after we take it.</p>
<p>If a teacher is dumb enough to use tests that are online/from a test bank/are the same every year, he/she deserves to be cheated on.</p>
<p>The two most common ways I cheat is through the homework–I do the homework and others copy, and vice versa.
The other way is if I have a test fifth hour and I have friends who took it first hour, they give me little tips! But I do the same for them too 
but the little tips are not too giving–just tips. “There are a ton of vocab” or “there’s tons of matching”, etc :)</p>
<p>I cheat more than I should. I text people in the class sharing answers, look up answers on the internet (especially in chemistry), glance at other peoples’ tests, and if the teacher tells you to turn the test in a basket, I ask a question and glance at the top test. I cheated on a state test once. It was an open response type question and I had no idea what to put, so I googled it when I got home and the next day when we were doing the open responses for that day, after I got done, I went back to the one from the day before and covered up the number so the teacher couldn’t tell. I do not agree with cheating, but there is so much pressure to make the best grades and to get into a top school.</p>
<p>Tests and exams aren’t tools to prove how perfect you are all the time. If you just naturally suck at life (or you know, French, etc.) you either honestly work harder or let the test show you how much of a loser you are.</p>
<p>And justifying cheating with “everyone else does it” or “the class doesn’t matter” makes it worse. How far would you take your moral excuses?</p>
<p>I agree that the temptation to cheat is high, especially if everyone else is doing it, because then you’d feel disadvantaged if you’re not doing it as well. The pressure to get into a top school is so huge nowadays (ahem, especially how this year’s acceptance rates plummeted) and the decision to cheat takes a split second to make. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, cheating doesn’t limit itself to school and doing it on a regular basis in high school could really screw up your ethical views later on. </p>
<p>Personally, I’d feel really guilty after the few times I cheated and I regret it afterwards. For me, the struggle is that I think I’ll be screwed if I don’t cheat and who knows what’s going to cost my admission to a top school. It’s so competitive that we all worry what little incident could screw up the whole application. But I just have to remember that life isn’t about gaining prestige and there’s much more to life than this.</p>
<p>You have to do what it takes to be at the top. If everyone else has an unfair advantage you must do what it takes to even the playing field, even if that requires cheating.</p>
<p>The attitude that you have to be at the top, no matter how much you let your morals corrode, sickens me. There’s a way to be at the top with some dignity - it’s called studying and doing your work. </p>
<p>Yes, the pressure to be the best can get to you, and yes, you may feel like you absolutely must peer over at a neighbor’s test paper to make sure you’re on the “right track” or that you have the correct answer, but once you get into the habit of cheating, you start to think that cheating isn’t that bad. You start to feel like cheating is the way of life, and that you have to cheat in order to succeed in life. </p>
<p>That’s just not right.</p>
<p>**** yea, I’ve cheated, but not on a whole test, i usually just glance over for one answer, but nothing else.</p>
<p>I mainly just look at the Asian girl next to, and make sure are answers look similar. If they do, i turn the test in, and if they don’t, i revise my test. </p>
<p>I’m pretty sure everyone has cheated in life at least once.</p>
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<p>I don’t cheat often, i’m exaggerating a bit. I only cheat once in a while. (Once a couple weeks). I always study, so i don’t always feel the need to cheat.</p>
<p>Isn’t Jonaathan the same kid whining about how people think he’s stupid because he’s a URM and how this has caused so many academic problems for him, thus justifying affirmative action?</p>
<p>I think people think he’s stupid because he’s stupid.</p>
<p>@Saugus: Thanks for being so observant over my posts. hahah, but no I never said being a URM has made it difficult for me. I have it easier than a lot of people, and I’m thankful. I’ve never been discriminated against, or even stereotyped. People like me, and I’m verrry greatful.
Butt, I do know that being a URM has made it difficult for others. So yes, I think Affirmitive Action is great. That might have something to do with me being Hispanic, and able to benefit from it, but whatever. Andd I’m definitely not stupid. And don’t hate on me for cheating, I got 100’s on my third quarter grades for Honors Algebra 2, Honors English 10, and French 2. I think that’s GREAT. Also, everyone at my school does it. There are people that do it wayy more than me. And it’s not like it’s the ONLY way I get by in school, cause most of the cheating I do is giving out answers.
And people definitely don’t think I’m stupid. Maybe you, someone on the internet, hahahah. But you don’t really matter to me, sorry. Tons of people lovee me, and I’m happy with thattt. :D</p>
<p>I think I’ve also made it clear that to me, cheating isn’t bad. And sure it may go against morals, but not mine. If I’m not killing someone, doing drugs, or hurting someone. Then I don’t think it’s bad. So you can definitely try to affect me with your opinion, but it won’t happen. Most of my teachers don’t even mind cheating that much. Or they do, but it’s not something they enforce strict rules upon. I also think that a lot of you are intensely perfect kids, or think you are, so you blow cheating up into something way bigger than it actually is.</p>
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<p>I shoplift from stores, but it’s okay because everyone does it and I’m sure the store owners don’t really care.</p>
<p>At my school, certain forms of cheating are frequent. For example, we often copy mindless homework assignments, ask about tests, etc. Another often practiced tactic is to program information onto calculators in classes that allow them on tests and quizzes. The teacher is perfectly aware that we’re doing it (a student once openly admitted to doing it when asked why he was using a Ti-89 when asked about the solubility rules), but the teacher doesn’t do anything.</p>
<p>I took AP Euro this year at the other school in my district (due to scheduling conflicts), and, although I’m a junior, the class was made up completely of unintelligent slackers who wanted to appear smart by having an AP on their schedules. The teacher was such a joke. He literally didn’t know what he was talking about and then would give impossible answers. Anyway, since he was too lazy to type up different tests, the first period students would correct them in class, write the answers down, then text them to all the fifth hour kids. Hahah.</p>