<p>Wouldn't consider it cheating</p>
<p>If the professor lets kids keep the exams and doesn't change them, it's his fault.</p>
<p>Well, morally--it is cheating. The purpose of a class is to learn and comprehend all the concepts. The test is to discover whether you do. So if you use an old test to study for your own test, you are not doing what you are supposed to, which is learn everything--you are studying by only learning what you think you need to know to convince the professor that you actually did learn all the concepts to the extent that he could have tested you on any of them, and you would have do well.</p>
<p>With that said, go for it. I would totally do it in your position. You're still going to be studying, and hey, the professor should have done a better job of rounding up the question sheets after the test was over.</p>
<p>my chem prof posts the past exams online. its def not cheating, but a way to help u study.</p>
<p>I consider it cheating if the exam was stolen.</p>
<p>Some of you don't have a sense of <em>honor</em>, you guys. :p</p>
<p>when old exams are made available by the professor, they are fine.</p>
<p>when old exams aren't made available, and you happen across one, you are walking a fine line.</p>
<p>if the professor collects all exams, and someone kept one and you are now using it, you are definitely in the wrong.</p>
<p>The professor gave the exams back to the students.</p>
<p>yah, this topic shouldn't even be a dispute then. The issue really, was if it was stolen, and if the exams were returned.</p>
<p>No, it's not cheating. Most of my professors post old exams even if there are recycled questions on them.</p>
<p>Yeah, I wouldn’t consider this cheating — probably, the questions will be different. Does it give you an advantage? Sure. But it’s the same kind of advantage you’d get if say, a friend had taken a class with a certain prof and explained what kind of things that prof looks for in an essay (but not telling you what to write). You still have to do the work of learning (or writing the essay), you’re just lucky enough to have more of an idea of what kind of question is going to be asked/what the prof. Probably, if other people took the initiative to go talk to the Prof, they could get the same kind of info.</p>
<p>Yeah, I wouldnt consider this cheating probably, the questions will be different. Does it give you an advantage? Sure. But its the same kind of advantage youd get if say, a friend had taken a class with a certain prof and explained what kind of things that prof looks for in an essay (but not telling you what to write). You still have to do the work of learning (or writing the essay), youre just lucky enough to have more of an idea of what kind of question is going to be asked/what the prof. Probably, if other people took the initiative to go talk to the Prof, they could get the same kind of info.</p>