Test Banks

Parents Forum
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<p>Hey Parents, So I was searching online for an ebook version of my AP Economics textbook, and I came across the test bank for the book instead. My question is, is it wrong to study from this question bank? I have no way of knowing if my teacher uses this test bank when making tests or not. Is it okay to use as a practice exam and study from?</p>

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<p>If you teacher considers it to be cheating to use the test bank, then the teacher is cheating.</p>

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<p>Wait, what do you mean by that? That they’re cheating by not writing their own tests?</p>

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<p>If this information is readily available to anyone online I wouldn’t see this as cheating. If you hacked into your school or teacher’s computer to get these questions, then I would say yes, this is cheating. Assuming you didn’t hack into a private resource, I see this like getting a SAT study guide with sample tests. Not cheating – just a way to study.</p>

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<p>Teachers who use public test banks and practice questions unchanged on their own tests compromise the validity of the test results, since some students may have seen them beforehand. Even if the teacher considers use of the public test banks and practice questions to be cheating on the student’s part, there is no way to find all of the students who do that.</p>

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<p>It is not wrong unless it is against your school’s code of conduct, which was provided to you when you started.</p>

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<p>Back in high school, I studied for a math test by doing questions from the book that were not assigned to us. (For example, we had to do evens for homework; I studied from the odds and from the Chapter Test.) I saw the exact same questions on a test that I had done in study hall a few hours prior; I took the test, then explained the situation to my teacher at the end of it. </p>

<p>Her response: “If you’re going to do extra work, you should be rewarded for it. Enjoy the 100%.”</p>