<p>At my school cheating is impossible to catch because people don't cheat when the teacher is in the room or the teacher doesn't want the students to have a cheating transcript. Rather answers are given from class to class, and all the other tricks you can think of. How I know this: polls, flagrant cheating during a test with a lenient sub, I'm a student.</p>
<p>But there are things that are borderline cheating. Such as the smartest person at my school has a study group where students text each other on our graded online homework assignments to give help but not answers. There are only a few opportunities per student to submit answers so the advantage is that each of these students gets an increased grade while I work alone. But my teacher approves of this.</p>
<p>Im the only person in my class who can look at source code and figure out the answers in javascript. My teacher actually told me how in an email but told me not to tell anyone else. I know I could also get those 100s if I spend more time but I have numerous APs and some clubs that will be starting. (I got a 96% on the final for physics unscaled which was just an AP physics test last year). I'd rather not spend the time.</p>
<p>So would I be cheating to use the source code to get the answers right throwing in that one wrong every now and then and proxying or dling to avoid suspicion? Or should I start my own study group for the rest of the class that works alone and can use aim or skype? Should I join the smartest person's study group? God the only noncheap choice that the teacher might approve of seems for me to be to accept that others can finish faster and learn the same amount with less work. Why would I do this?</p>
<p>What would you recommend that I'm not seeing?</p>
<p>I don’t think a study group that gives help but not answers is borderline cheating at all. A lot of teachers encourage collaboration on homework. When I do homework for AP Chem, I’m almost always in a chat room on AIM with three or four other students. If one of us gets stuck, she or he can simply asks the others for help. Chances are at least one of us will know how to do it. The idea of starting your own study group on AIM or Skype sounds like a good plan, and if your teacher approves, then it’s not cheating. Best of luck! :)</p>
<p>Yes but what about the students that aren’t in the group? Won’t they get lower scores? And that feels like I get an unfair advantage like a calculator while other students don’t. I could say that it’s their choice not to join, but not everyone can be on at a specific time and that’s not their fault.</p>
<p>why do you think about them dude? they have to find time themselves, that’s their business. they would have to find a way to adjust their schedule accordingly.</p>
<p>At the same time all the other students could learn to read source code and I could argue that the teacher explicitly allowed me to use it. It’s their business that they don’t know how right? I could go back to programming my calculator like I did in stats once to ace a test that no one else did. The other students just have to budget their schedules to learn ti calc language.</p>
<p>yeah I’ll just go off and try to join that other group. I’ll Probably find some way to tell the rest of the class and start discussions on the forums there.</p>