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<p>This is ridiculous, especially if the Professor in question didn’t specify that this form of collaboration…which isn’t cheating by any reasonable definition…isn’t allowed on the syllabus. </p>
<p>If this had happened in a class I took, I’d be bringing a complaint to the Prof and the chair of the academic department concerned. </p>
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<p>In many college classes/majors…especially highly competitive ones like pre-med, the goal of the classes is not only to facilitate learning the material, but also to rank students by how quickly/self-sufficiently they learn the material to separate out the “quick studies” from the rest. </p>
<p>Employers who hire college graduates…especially ones who are in highly competitive fields/industries also prefer this method as it facilitates their ability to hire fresh graduates who they feel can hit the ground running from the first day without much/any handholding. </p>
<p>Just as importantly, they want to minimize the chances they hire fresh graduates like a couple of younger colleagues who were considered “slow learners” and/or lacked a semblance of work-ethic in the eyes of my supervisors and thus, fired early in their probationary period.</p>