<p>If I sat beside a person I knew and studied with and I knew that they were having trouble in the test I would help them out. It all depends on how much I know about that person and whether or not they put the time into studying of just BSed the days before. And that’s only for a few problems, not the entire test. But a person I don’t know, not so much. Also, calling out a cheater is stupid, really. You don’t exactly know for a fact that they were indeed cheating. Texting while taking at test is rather obvious and if the TA or Professor miss it-it’s their fault. You have to put yourself in the position of other people. What if someone called you a cheater when you knew you didn’t cheat? Would you be happy about it? Angry? I would only call out a cheater if I knew with 100% certainty that they were indeed cheating, for example looking inside the book or at notes.</p>
<p>Yeah, I turn people in for cheating all the time. There are so many benefits of doing so that it’s ridiculous.</p>
<p>Arguably the economy benifits from people cheating</p>
<p>I told my Spanish teacher one time after I was fed up with this kid. Normally, I don’t care if people steal one or two answers from my test, but this was ridiculous. He was literally copying me word-for-word (it’s not multiple choice). I told him not to do it anymore after the first quiz, and then again after the second quiz. After our first test I saw him doing it again and I talked to the prof after class and told her what was going on. She said she knew and was going to punish us both if our tests had been the same after noticing that we got the exact things wrong on the quizes. I could have potentially been in a LOT of trouble had I not come forward to tell the prof. If it had been a class with more than 15 students or it was multiple choice, I probably would not have come forward, but with a class that small, I didn’t want to run the risk. Plus, the guy didn’t listen to me after I repeatedly told him to stop.</p>
<p>If it’s a curved test, then I purposefully try to sabotage people that try to cheat off of me. If it’s not though, then who cares?</p>
<p>I see more collusion than I see people ratting people out.</p>
<p>For any take-home assignment, everything is fair game. For an exam though, who cares? It’s not my job.</p>
<p>I help people study for tests beforehand, but no way would I let them cheat off my test. Mostly, I just don’t notice cheaters. I’m sure some of them do it in the classes I’m in, but I tune out everything but the exam when I’m testing. </p>
<p>If someone stole and plagarized one of my papers, I would report them to everyone who would listen.</p>
<p>Do some schools have desks really close together or something? I can’t imagine how all this “peering at other people’s tests” thing is even feasible. Maybe most people just have better eyesight than I do!</p>
<p>Nope. It’s not my job to play Sheriff Catch a Ho.</p>
<p>In the colleges with honor codes, you can get into a lot of trouble if you know about cheating and don’t report it. I knew someone who was brought before the disciplinary committee for this; she didn’t get thrown out of the college the way the cheater did, but, if I remember correctly, she was put on academic probation and had a mark on her record of academic dishonesty. </p>
<p>I hope you guys know that enabling cheating is cheating. High schools tend to be much more lenient than colleges, which have a one-and-you’re-done philosophy. I’ve known students who faced the disciplinary committee for blatant cheating (taking a test for another) to less obvious ones (a trio of students doing problem sets together.) Allowing your test to be visible to another student makes you as guilty as the person actually copying from the test – and universities often mete out the same punishment to both.</p>
<p>Please don’t throw out your education for something as foolish as this. Remember that if the prof or TA discovers rampant texting and you’ve said nothing, you could end up punished along with the actual offenders.</p>
<p>It’s not my job to report it. I’m a cashier, and frankly I don’t get paid enough to report shoplifters, either. I guess I take a pretty morally lax look at this. I don’t think I would help someone out during an actual test, though - maybe once or twice for a few questions, but not like a whole test. As for homework and papers, those are fair game. I have gone to pretty extreme lengths at this point in my life, but in terms of college, well, I prefer colleges were students are SUPPOSED to work together. It’s one thing to copy homework (though I don’t care personally); it’s another to help a struggling friend nail a term paper.</p>
<p>Anything unproctored is fair game.</p>
<p>i have not and will never cheat. in cases like twistedxkisses’, i think its reasonable to rat someone out cause theyre taking advantage of you and the class curve. HOWEVER, i think people who arent affected by it, who tell the teacher/professor, are [. . .]. i mean seriously, why the hell would you do that? the person isn’t trying to be dishonest, but happens to be in perception from others</p>
<p>How are you not trying to be dishonest by cheating?</p>
<p>“Allowing your test to be visible to another student makes you as guilty as the person actually copying from the test”</p>
<p>“I hope you guys know that enabling cheating <em>is</em> cheating”</p>
<p>Oh please! And selling drugs is legally as repugnant as using drugs…</p>
<p>oh wait… :(</p>
<p>I’m not going to cover up my test. It’s not my fault everyone’s crammed into the classroom like sardines. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>And I don’t accuse someone of cheating just because. I have to have substantial evidence.</p>
<p>And why is doing drugs even repugnant in the first place? Because it’s illegal? A lot of things we don’t think are morally repugnant are illegal and a lot of things we think are morally repugnant are legal. The law is the law and morality is morality. There’s nothing repugnant about doing or selling drugs. And no statute is going to change that.</p>
<p>as sad as this sounds, I wouldn’t just in case they come back to bite in my butt somehow. I never cheated in college tests before though and I make sure I cover up my books/papers during tests so nobody can accuse me of anything… and heck I wouldn’t show them MY test, why should I let them feed off of my scores? I don’t know, I do feel a lil bit bad about certain people who cheat because some of them probably tried but really couldn’t understand the topic enough</p>
<p>@futureNYUstudent ever seen a meth addict? They’re pretty repugnant</p>
<p>I don’t understand the whole showing someone your test thing. I know I wouldn’t; it’s my test, I studied (or even if I didn’t, it’s my work) for it. I’m not a test welfare service.</p>
<p>I’m not going to show it on purpose. But I’m not going to hide it like some kind of secret. That’s not my job. </p>
<p>How are they repugnant? Enlighten me. I find smokers more repugnant than a meth addict. At least meth addicts are courteous enough to do it at home and don’t victimize innocent bystanders with their secondhand smoke.</p>
<p>Meth addicts look like **** bro:</p>
<p>Meth addicts either cook their own meth or buy it from dealers. Many good men and women have fallen in the line of duty trying to keep meth out of the hands of the public because it’s a terrible drug. These damn fiends would rather take a person’s life so they can keep getting their fix.</p>
<p>Please don’t give me that “victimize” crap. Maybe if you’re in a crowded room yeah (and smoking is banned inside of restaurants in NYC, no?) but out in public, you probably take in more toxins just walking down the street inhaling the wonderful fumes of the taxis, buses and cars of the Big Apple than Joe Blow’s menthols.</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of cigarette addicts killing people over cigarettes. Never heard of cigarettes tearing families apart. I can’t say the same about meth or alcohol.</p>
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<p>Only because cigarettes are legal and meth is not. If cigarettes were illegal, I guarantee you there would be plenty of murders over cigarettes.</p>
<p>We’re all addicted to something. Doesn’t make someone less human because they’re addicted to something illegal and destructive rather than legal and destructive. I interned for the public defender over the summer. In the course of that internship, I encountered MANY drug addicts. I talked to a lot of them in jail. They WANT to get better. The government doesn’t let them. The government just throws them in prison. Yeah, like that will totally work :rolleyes: We need to stop being so puritannical about drugs and accept that people do stupid things and do something about it. Prison is the solution to nothing. You only use prison when absolutely necessary. And even then, you use with caution.</p>
<p>Do you think any less of people who are addicted to coffee? Shopping? Work? Computer games? What makes them less repugnant? I’ve seen workaholics’s families torn apart too. I’ve seen people’s finances ruined because some woman can’t control her credit card.</p>
<p>/off topic</p>
<p>Carry on.</p>
<p>I would never “help” someone take a test. I barely have enough time during timed tests to even finish, let alone worry about helping the slacker who was up drinking the night before instead of studying. Your grades should reflect your effort. I don’t understand how cheating is not seen as dishonest.</p>