<p>Who hasn't cheated at least once in their life?</p>
<p>Anyways, at my school if you're caught cheating you have to go in front of the student board and administrators and explain yourself</p>
<p>i agree..
altho Ive never seen any of em, study guides are legally published, they cant be cheating</p>
<p>i've actually been wondering lately if sparknotes are cheating--i use them rarely, but i do read them sometimes when i just couldn't finish a book for english, or something like that. lately i've been feeling a twinge of guilt about it, even though i know i would have passed the assignments w/out the sparknotes.</p>
<p>what are you guys's (grammar?) opinions on this?</p>
<p>i used sparknotes on every book in AP English Language, got a 98 in the class and a 4 on the test. It does not matter at all, its not like your getting a grade for reading the book. Your getting graded on tests and essays about interpretation of the book, so using a study guide is fine; youll just be at a disadvatnage sometimes. I used to bring the sparknotes books to class, and my teacher would laugh</p>
<p>"I have seen blatant and known cheaters apply to NHS and get accepted"</p>
<p>Haha. One girl in our grade who was in NHS and had some sort of position like treasurer or something wrote the essay for her boyfriend so that he would get in. He did.</p>
<p>NHS..thats another story. Two kids at my school got rejected from NHS. One got into Yale and Harvard and one got into Cornell. NHS is a joke.</p>
<p>because you get ideas from study guides? inadvertently in your essay you're inclined to "borrow" some of the ideas, no matter how well you paraphrase it. it seems like all ideas are paraphrases of one another. that's why we find commonality(sorry that's not a word) in vast majority of the work.</p>
<p>lol inevidently*</p>
<p>nevermind----</p>
<p>"bottom line.. everybody cheats."</p>
<p>= bs.</p>