<p>a person has a test from the previous year and use it to study? Not the same version, but similar questions. Like a math test phrased differently and with different numbers used in the problem.</p>
<p>I just found out a kid thinks I'm the biggest cheater ever because I have last year's version of the test.</p>
<p>Doesn’t really seem any different from a study guide.</p>
<p>If the numbers are different, the only way the test could help you is if you actually learn the concepts.</p>
<p>Oftentimes teachers pull questions directly from the book or homework, and just change the numbers.</p>
<p>In conclusion, that kid is a fart.</p>
<p>It isn’t cheating but it gives you a advantage.</p>
<p>I don’t think it is. </p>
<p>If you were able to manage to get a test, then so be it. It’s like working on the review page of the text book, but with a bit more test like set up. I nab my friends’ tests every once in awhile. (Like if I’m absent for a math test. If you’re absent you get a different test from everyone. Helps me know for sure what’s covered, since the teacher will go over it if you where there for the original, but he doesn’t if you come in on your own time.)</p>
<p>It depends on how you got the test version. All of my teachers keep their tests, so to get one. I’d have to steal it or something. If your teacher lets students keep them though, it’s not cheating.</p>
<p>I don’t see how anyone could see that as cheating…</p>
<p>Many college frats were started as study groups, where kids got together and shared their tests from the previous years. Some even kept those tests on file, so future members could refer to them. It was not cheating then, and it is not cheating now.</p>
<p>No youre pretty much just using your resources. It’s not cheating otherwise if the teacher were using the same test, he/she would have kept it to prevent distribution. I rarely ever get mine back and sometimes teachers, especially math, teach different topics/methods every year. Don’t listen to that kid, he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.</p>
<p>A few people including me were lucky enough to get a binder/notebook from the previous year for our physics class. You guys think what you want but without this binder I would have been screwed. This teacher is a hard***, I had the highest grade in all of the classes at semester break with a 94 percent (stupid significant digits). Its not like it makes that much of a difference for the people who dont have one because everyone usually gets with everyone to compare homework and some bring old tests to school the test day and studies until the last possible moment.</p>