<p>I really don’t advocate snitching, but I personally won’t screw up anyone else’s life if I can help it. I don’t see it as a huge deal at all. Find something better to get upset about.</p>
<p>It’s not about what people think of you. It’s the fact that you should worry about your own self. If you can get good grades without cheating, just do that and it won’t affect you.</p>
<p>Cheating is a serious issue. I agree with you. </p>
<p>Suprisingly in my school a lot of the cheaters are A+ students who “couldn’t study for 1 test” and can’t bear to sabotage their 4.8 GPA w not cheating and failing the test. What frustrates me beyond belief are that these are the individuals who go to Harvard,Yale, Princeton and never recieve the consequences. </p>
<p>But really, can somebody do something about it? I doubt it. But yeah, if you’re honest you DO have the moral backup to make you proud of yourself. You don’t need the grade to know that Honesty IS what makes you successful. Whatever score you get, its YOURS, not some internet site’s answer. So be happy, honest and healthy 
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<p>Studying old tests is not cheating. I never did it in highschool but I do it all the time in college. Half my classes have old tests posted for people to study from. If your professor is to lazy to change the tests/quizzes up that’s their fault. I had one class where they would not give back tests and said getting a hold of old tests is academic dishonesty. If you some how got hold of a test in a class like that then I would consider that cheating.</p>
<p>Professors in college will often post up old tests for you to study from themselves. How would studying from those be cheating? I guess it’s different in that case though because everyone in the class has a fair chance to study from them.</p>
<p>What I mean is that sometimes, in, say, a finance class, we’ll have a huge project/homework assignment with like 40 questions in total. If the teacher is lazy, it may be a project that was done before in a previous class. Students typically find ways to get their hands on the answers and save themselves the effort of the work and just learn from the answers.</p>
<p>Most of the cheating I know of isn’t so much during tests. It’s having unfair advantages in everything else (assignments, projects, etc) to the extent that you save yourself a lot of time and effort while maintaining the best possible grade, making it easier to study and providing a bigger buffer against failures come test time.</p>
<p>It’s not exactly “lazy” if they don’t want to come up with entirely new projects, tests, and assignments every year, especially if they effectively help teach the material. </p>
<p>As for the old test thing, I don’t see how looking at the old tests is any different than using old AP tests or ACT tests. It shouldn’t matter how you learn the information, as long as you know the stuff well. As for just memorizing sequences if letters or something for a multiple choice and stuff like that, instead of knowing the information, I would consider that cheating…but that won’t stop anyone from doing it. I’m not gonna turn someone in for cheating; that’s the choice they made. If they get away with it, good for them; if theyget caught, sucks for them. My policy on it is to worry about yourself in class, and keep the teaching philosophy of your instructor in mind.</p>
<p>Sometimes it’s true, sometimes it’s not. Regardless, my point is that at least old AP/ACT tests are publicly available, which can’t be said for old assignments and projects from past classes – you have to know someone. That’s what makes it unfair. Student A has to actually do the work and risk losing points while Student B, with access to the answers, gets a 100% no matter what.</p>
<p>In all honesty, though, if I am paying out the rear to go to an expensive school and participate in a class where my grade might suffer because of cheaters (due to grade curves), and I know it’s happening – I’m absolutely going to report it. It takes all of twenty seconds and saves me the potential risk.</p>
<p>But if it’s a curveless class, I could not care less what others do. It’s their time, their money, their risk. But if that stands to impinge on me in some way, I’ll do something about it.</p>
<p>Exactly my take on it: it depends on the nature of the class and the teacher.</p>
<p>the real problem should be, why arent you studying off of the past tests? if the entire school has access to all these past tests and quizzes and all these classes, why dont you? i’m pretty sure your friend would be willing to share, or even the dude who you used to eat lunch with or the kid you sit by! take advantage of the situation. and OBVIOUSLY the teacher doesnt care if he gives the tests back to his students and never changes it from year to year. why would you complain about this when the teacher is practically asking you to use your resources? And what if the teacher actually started punishing people for using old tests? Dont you think your classmates would be a bit bitter with you? like i realize you shouldn’t live your life by other people’s expectations but when you’re in high school people are not nice! And did you really think cheating was a MYTH? On the same level of realness of witchcraft and the like? Your actions and thoughts amaze me for a senior in high school… especially when what your classmates and friends are doing is completely harmless. This is a high school, not a workplace. People arent stealing your job or wages from you, they are simply studying for a test. And yeah, maybe theyll be less prepared for the AP exam, but since its AP history and its all based on memorization, will they really be unprepared for the exam?</p>
<p>Think about it, and good luck with the rest of the year! Take advantage of what you are given! :)</p>
<p>sounds like your friends won’t be very happy when they find out you told the teacher on them. you better hope no one in your Ap us history class finds out about this. :)</p>
<p>A few years ago, one of the accounting professors at my uni would give the answers to exams right after the exam finished. Even when other sections still hadn’t taken exams. Some students would send the answers to their friends via text. Needless to say it was pretty stupid, and nowadays he doesn’t put the answers up until everybody has taken the exam. But he decided to have the last laugh.</p>
<p>For the final, he decided to put wrong answers on the answer key. Quite a few people did rather poorly on that one ;)</p>
<p>My AP Stats teacher last year gave extra credit for anyone who turned in an old test. Worked out well :D</p>
<p>About them finding out about it? They did. Who cares? Not I.</p>
<p>I am agreed with all above comments that cheating happens every where no body stop this because so many people are their who just rely on cheating because they don’t have enough capabilities to learn or you say they don’t want to learn,but i must say now a days our institution has good future plans for students and they compel them to work harder.But we didn’t have right to say cheater to others because if whenever we forgot something at examination hall and we got a chance to ask some one so may be we also do the same thing.</p>
<p>Wanna know the funniest part? The person/people found out by reading it on here. Then he/she made an account AND posted on this thread. How intriguing!!! lol It’s like a soap opera!!</p>
<p>Some colleges have very strict honor codes (Davidson and Princeton come to mind, but I’m sure there are many others) if this is something that really bothers you.</p>
<p>I seriously thought this was about cheating on your boy/girlfriend until I saw “APUSH”</p>
<p>I so stooped. :(</p>
<p>^ I smirked after reading this haha :)</p>
<p>I have never cheated before… ><em>> …<</em>< lol.Anyway, I dont cheat, mainly because I never have to, but even if i wanted to cheat I wouldnt have anyone to cheat off of :C.</p>
<p>But I will admit I am like the designated person to cheat off of. Everyone is always copying my homework/classwork/test/quizes etc. I personally dont feel bad becuase if they want to cheat and not learn the information thats on them, and my score will always be higher anyway lol. And as far as being fair to other people, my school is very good at preventing cheating on finals/exit exams etc. so its not like they can cheat their way ahead of anyone lol.</p>
<p>well my best friend , cheated on a test yesterday afternoon and it was a french test. he got caught and the school may give him a cheating record. i think it sucks since he had a 4.0 gpa before this… :/</p>