<p>Unless you are trolling to try to elicit a reaction, Ivan, I seriously hope you don't get accepted to any US colleges.</p>
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<p>It seems like you should from your posts. Cheating isn't the worst thing in life and you don't have to go and try to prevent every little cheating actively. Get over it.
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<p>Except you fail to realize how cheating negatively affects you. Unless, of course, you are one of those lazy students who gets by with cheating. Obviously you won't understand if that is the case.</p>
<p>Note, though, I didn't mean homework. Copying homework is not equivalent to cheating on tests.</p>
So does littering. And a bunch of other things in life. Hell, there are instances where walking can be negative...in fact cheating can be justified in some conditions. Besides, I've never made such a claim nor is it necessary to provide the information that cheating can be negative. Is it worth it and mandatory to actively prevent every little thing? </p>
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Unless, of course, you are one of those lazy students who gets by with cheating. Obviously you won't understand if that is the case.
Assumptions. I don't regularly cheat, although I have cheated before in homework. Me being lazy, while true, has no relevance in this. </p>
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Note, though, I didn't mean homework. Copying homework is not equivalent to cheating on tests.
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While I agree that there is a degree of cheating, what distinguishes the two between homework and tests? There is (at least most of the schools I know) equal punishment between the two.</p>
<p>For those of you that are taken aback that people on this seemingly academic-pristine forum do in fact, CHEAT ... </p>
<p>If you think about it, it's usually the most competitive students that would do ANYTHING to do well on a test. So I'm not surprised, and neither should you be. </p>
<p>It's the sad truth . I go to a competitive high school, and quite sadly, cheating exists on a daily basis in all my classes.</p>
<p>I don't actively cheat. But I am guilty of the more subtle things. For instance, if someone goes up to the teacher and asks a question about the test, I'll listen to the answer, and change my test answers accordingly. That saved me on a Physics test last year. I'll also look around the room to see if other people are still working when I'm finished. If there is no one else that's also finished, I'll go and take a harder look at my test to see if I missed something. And if I see someone who's had that test that day already, of course I'll ask them what's on it. But I never copy answers or write things on my hand. That stuff just undermines my knowledge.</p>
<p>lololol, I'll share a funny story -- so, my chem teacher a few years back made all of his tests take-home, but we had to write a note wholeheartedly swearing that we didn't cheat on it. He was also a very meek man, and would never get involved in student affairs.</p>
<p>Sooooo, on the morning that the tests were due (they were overnight tests, and it was a first period class) there would be a large group of people SITTING RIGHT OUTSIDE HIS DOOR 10 minutes before class started copying each other's answers. He would walk past them on his way to whatever it is teacher's walk past their pupils to go to, and would see them cheating, and, to my knowledge, never do anything about it (they all got As in the class, haha, and my school makes a HUGE fuss about cheating so they certainly didn't have any negative repercussions).</p>
<p>As a rule of thumb I keep my integrity with me wherever I go. I don't want to leave it in a classroom. Especially because in the grand scheme of things...getting caught is much worse than a bad grade</p>
<p>its like 0 versus maybe 60 or whatever the bad grade is.</p>
<p>amciw you are not asked about your opinion.I know a lot of aloof losers like you.''Dont cheat,cheating is not good ,you are not a good person bla bla bla''I ve cheated only 3-4 times on tests and my grades are almost perfect,in the one of the most prestigious high schools in the country.I prefer to focus on more important subjects-mats,physics,english ..etc and whats wrong to get great marks on the other subjects,as well ,even with some cheating ;} And if i cheat,i always help my classmates ,and i havent mentioned that everyday some pussies copy their homework from me...</p>
Yeah, maybe those same most competitive students might actually study!?! Which would fall under the category of "doing ANYTHING to do well on a test." If they want the grade that badly, and aren't capable of getting it on their own, they should have asked for help, studied, or something.</p>
<p>And I'm also wondering what "intriguant" means... can I just copy your answer, Ivan? You seem to know what it is, so you shouldn't feel bad about sharing it with me. Just because I didn't bother putting forth any effort doesn't mean I shouldn't get the same grade as you!?>!!>!?!?!?</p>
<p>I was friends with a couple of guys in Algebra 2 last year who didn't get enough studying in for an exam. Instead of flipping out, one of them scanned in a coke wrapper onto his computer and edited the nutrition facts so the formulas we were supposed to memorize replaced the percent values for sugars and stuff like that.Thne he just printed it out, and stuck it back on the bottle.During the exam, he stuck the coke bottle on top of his desk (to make it look like he was drinking out of it) and just scribbled down the answers to the test- his friends did the same thing just with aquafina and dasani bottles. The guys scored somewhere in the 90-96 range. The thing was, the kid with the Aquafina bottle didn't dispose of it the right way. Some chick from the Eco club was throwing away/recycling trash after school one day and she found his bottle sitting on one of the lunch tables. She turned the bottle in, and the administrators were flipping out. They were going to all of the math classes asking the kids to confess, but none of the guys stepped up.
They asked me to do it with them, but I didn't want to get caught.</p>
<p>...just had to live with my 89 earned the good old fashion way</p>