<p>Hey, first off thanks for taking the time to read this .. I just need a little help/insight. So last week my class took our first exam .. The professor had given us about 75% of the answers and told us to memorize the true/false and mult choice saying they would just be in diff order. Then told us exactly what to study for a few of the math problems involved saying they will be similar to the in class question sheet. He obviously wanted us to do well. The class took the exam before the weekend and we all received it on the following Wednesday handed back and graded AND we got to keep the exams. However one of my math questions was not corrected so I figured I would try to ask a classmate since I'm rather shy &we do have a cumulative final and he reused quiz questions for the test( so I thought maybe he would do the same for the final). After class a girl actually came up to me asking me how I did on the test and I said I did ok but could have done better and I said how about you and she said she did ok also. She then asked what I had gotten for a certain problem so I pulled out my test and let her have the solution to two questions (she claimed the professor did not correct them on hers ) which I believed bc he missed one of mine also. So she took her phone and snapped a pic of my two solutions. When I asked her about the one I got wrong she just said 'oh I didn't get that either' I don't know her , but the next class we had later in the week, I learned there were people who didn't take the exam , Idk who bc I don't know anyone in the class.. But now I am overthinking and wondering if she just used me for my answers and hadn't taken the exam? I say this bc she didn't take out her exam which could just be bc she's lazy but I'm a very paranoid person and now I am incredibly stressed worrying that something could happen to me although I did not cheat in any way possible. I earned my grade and I do not want to let something like this jeopardize it. I'm an honors society member also and about to transfer to a bigger university from community college. I may possibly just be over thinking but I just need some help please. I am afraid talking to the professor may make things worse bc it happened last week and I wouldn't be able to see him till tomorrow. It may also make me look like the bad person although I am not. Anyone have a similar situation?? </p>
<p>Did she give you any information about the problems, or indicate that she knew what they were about? Did she ask specifically about questions you weren’t given the answers to? If she had some idea of what was going on, and what numbers corresponded to which problems, I’d definitely give her the benefit of the doubt and assume that she just wanted to see what a correct solution looked like.</p>
<p>If it’s really eating away at your conscience and you think she did something dishonest, you could also mention it to your professor. Helping another student after you’ve got the exams back isn’t considered cheating, though it seems weird that he’d give back graded exams before everyone had taken it. If you’re really concerned you could mention it to the professor, that you had gone over an exam question with ___ before you knew some students hadn’t taken it yet, and that you wanted to make sure that was okay.</p>
<p>Honestly if it was me I wouldn’t worry about it. It doesn’t sound like you did anything wrong, and there’s a pretty good chance that she didn’t either.</p>
<p>If you wanted to, you could talk to your professor about what happened and say that at first you thought you both were just talking about the test, but now it has occurred to you that she may have not taken the test yet so you just wanted him to know.</p>