<p>When I say cheating, I mean doing any sort of dishonest things that theoretically help your grade. That could include sabotaging the work of other students, getting old exams from a frat, or just the traditional slip of paper tucked in your sleeve. Is it more or less the same at all colleges or are some more susceptible to it than others? If it exists, do colleges try to do anything about it?</p>
<p>one student per semester at my school.</p>
<p>They normally get expelled from the uni nn;</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of sabotaging someone else. There’s no point unless a class has a set limit of A’s (don’t think my univ. has any classes that use this scheme). The most common cheating you pretty much have to do is solutions manual copying. Profs don’t care though since you have to do well on the tests anyways. I’ve also placed loads of notes on my calculator before. Technically not cheating since I’m just creatively using a tool which is permitted.</p>
<p>The other forms have way too many consequences for my blood. I’d say cheating in college is far less blatant than in HS though. I’ve heard of “extreme” cases of whole classes failing for cheating on take home exams though.</p>
<p>I always point the people out I see cheating to the professor when I turn in my exam…</p>
<p>WOW what a doosh bag ^</p>
<p>Tons of people cheat on homework, but it’s not a huge deal because that’s only 5% of your grade. </p>
<p>Most professors at my school encourage getting old exams online, so that’s not really cheating in my opinion.</p>
<p>Most common form I saw was giving old exams and notes to students taking the same class the next semester. Wasn’t just frat students, it was friends and floor mates. Cheating on actual exams seems less common than it was in high school, although I’ve seen people copying and texting (the ability to text during an exam baffles me. How do they not get caught? It seems so obvious!).</p>
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<p>You’re wasting your time and looking like an ahole simultaneously. Unless the prof sees it, it’s one student’s word vs another.</p>
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<p>Nah, I’m just kidding, I could care less if anyone else cheats…</p>
<p>It is common at my high school.</p>
<p>If you’re using such a broad criteria for “cheating” then I’d say it’s no less prevalent than it is in high school, more if anything, since there is a higher demand for A level work and harder to come by.</p>
<p>Here there is a high Greek presence. Most, if not all, sororities and frats have a collection of previous tests from various classes that other members can use to study from. Is this cheating? Not really, if you had a friend who took a class you were in you could do the same thing. Some chem classes even have previous tests up for purchase. However, due to this activity, a lot of professors have stopped allowing students to keep their tests.</p>
<p>The homework thing was already mentioned. There was actually an incident last semester where the professor found out that a class was using an online program with solutions (and the work involved). He only found out because his question was tweaked a bit, and half of the class still copied straight from the website (dumb). As a result I think they were given an F on the next test or something equally drastic.</p>
<p>The punishment for cheating, plagiarizing, or any other such academic dishonesty is very steep, and TAs hate to be bogged down with that mess. So either do it well or don’t even bother.</p>
<p>Just saying, to the people who disagree with the telling on of cheaters, if your school has an honor code, you might be required to tell anyway, or else you’re also technically guilty of cheating. I don’t necessarily agree with that idea, but it’s there.</p>
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<p>That may be true; however, it’s incredibly impractical to expect students to police each other while taking exams.</p>
<p>I’ve seen an episode of cheating at my school. A kid took out his notes during an exam when the professor left the room. I never reported it, though. I knew he was a slacker who wasn’t prepared for the exam at all. He was bound to fail anyways.</p>
<p>I don’t like the practice much either, and I completely agree with you.</p>
<p>In my old department, it supposedly was pretty prevalent, although I had never personally witnessed it until I helped out on a course staff. I know of a few cases where guys who had cheated their way to good grades were being given awards for doing well in academics by the department. It was a little disgusting. </p>
<p>This was in engineering. I suspect that mostly job-oriented degrees attract these kinds of people. It’s probably pretty common in pre-med coursework as well. Business schools have got to be rife with cheaters.</p>