January 20, 2011
-
Cheating On Homework and Tests
I pretty much cheated all through high school. I cheated on tests.
I usually didn’t bother making notes. I just looked at other people’s paper. I would make friends with smart people.
I had a Latin class and one of my friends had it a year before me. So she gave me a copy of all of the tests and they were almost all the same. I cheated off this other girl in Spanish class. I just copied off her paper during the tests and she let me look. One time I got a better grade than her and she got upset.
I had a computer class in high school and I fell behind on my typing projects so I asked this girl if I could just copy all of her completed projects and I would take her out on a date. So she not only let me copy her assignments but she actually did most of them for me.
I had another friend who let me copy all of her homework from biology. She did all the work and then I copied in the morning. After copying her papers all year, she asked me to go to some dance with her and I told her no and asked her best friend instead. I now realize that was not the nicest thing to do.
I only cheated once in college and then I gave cheating up.
I heard of a class where they caught 8 students cheating by buying papers online. I tend to think there are more cheaters than people are willing to admit.
Did you ever cheat on homework or tests in school?
Comments (130)
*now
and yes. although i prefer to do my own work & actually remember the material.
I sometimes copied homework but only because I had no interest in doing it, rather than not having the ability. People often have asked me to help them cheat on tests though. I’m a bit uptight about it.
I’m usually too paranoid and scared to cheat.
But I’ve done it, sure.
Absolutely.
Nope, I don’t cheat. Or, at least, I don’t think I have. ._.
You were such a smoozer Dan. Yes,I did my share of copying other peoples answers,but I wasn’t so smart,I copied from dummies
Not that I can recall. I know once in HS my eyes wandered but I felt guilty after I saw their answer that I made sure to choose a different one. You can never really guarantee that the person sitting next to you knows what the hell is going on either. TBH I can’t remember a thing I learned in High School or what courses I took. I don’t think it would have hurt me (academically) if I had… just morally.
Nope. I helped a guy I had a crush on cheat once in seventh grade, though, and my friends and I share answers on homework freely, but we do it in a way that we still learn from it and we’re all helping each other equally.
High school, yes but only if I had forgotten to do the assignment or if I didn’t get how to do it. But I didn’t cheat on tests. In college, no I do not cheat. That defeats the purpose. Why would I spend all of this time putting myself into debt for a degree just to cheat?
I cheated ALL the time in high school and never once got caught. Tried it once in college and got caught. Had the life scared out of me that i would get kicked out. I never cheated again…
I cheated like once in college and I feel really guilty about it. It makes me feel like I don’t deserve my degree.
I don’t cheat anymore. I want my Masters to be honest.
In 9th grade algebra, my friend and I sat across the room from each other and if one of us didn’t know the answer on a test, we’d tap out the number of the question on the desk with our pencil and the other one would tap out the answer. It was primitive by today’s standards, but it worked for us.
I once cheated on every single quiz and test in my science class in middle school. I got mostly A’s, but the teacher hated me so much that she still gave me a C for a final grade.
I never copied from someone else, mostly because I either don’t trust their work or I would feel that I could do it better myself. Plus, I was the one that was selling the answers! XD
No but I kinda wish I could get into this paper-writing racket. I was always good at it and it seems like people are willing to pay decent money… it’s so bad, but hey, if there’s a market for it……
Yes in physics class in high school. I got homework answers by going on others’ accounts (they gave me passwords) since we had this online thing for homework and tests. And for tests, I just got answers from guys sitting next to me or I asked people from other classes.
Tests, no. I was homeschooled so that would be pretty difficult. Especially since we only had one test a year and took it individually.
On regular school – I can remember a time in about 5th grade where my mom was gone and the answer book was right there. But I didn’t have the heart to copy more than one or two answers.
Then when I hit high school I graded all my own stuff anyway. I didn’t “cheat,” but I certainly didn’t do all the problems when I already knew how to do them.
When I was taking microbiology in college as part of my prerequisites for nursing, I went in to talk to my professor about my assignment, which was to identify an unknown organism. While i was talking to him, I glanced down at his desk, and saw a table that had all the answers to the unknown oragnisms, including mine. . Getting the organism right meant an “A”, and counted heavily toward getting into the nursing program.
I agonized over it. I really needed that “A”, but I wanted to earn it. I went ahead and did all the tests on the bacteria to identify it, and came up with an organism different than the one I had seen on the answer key. I wrote it up and submitted my work as I had done it, but noted that I had seen the key and knew my conclusion was different than what I had inadvertently seen on the answer key.
My final grade was
Hahah, yeah. I cheated a lot in high school, both on tests and homework. I barely did any of my own homework. I kind of regret it now because I don’t really remember anything and I only graduated two years ago….I know, I know. That’s pretty sad. :/ Oh well.
I don’t recall ever cheating. As lame as it sounds, it took the intrigue out of learning.
The only one I remembered cheating on was Drivers Education. It was given on television on the PBS channel and during the middle of the course the TV went whacko. I came out with a D…but I passed…good enough for me,.
I do it all by myself, except when there’s a question I really just can’t even guess on. Then, if the person next to me happens to have their test open to that same page, then if the shoe fits….
I high school I did cheat in Chemistry. The girl in front of me would place the cheat notes on the back of her neck, Then I would move her hair to see the answers, whenever the teacher asked why I keep playing with her hair, I would reply, “Look at this girl wouldn’t you?”. So I aced the class and got a new girlfriend.
I dont cheat. I rather fail knowing I gave it my best guess
Not that I recall. I just bullshitted everything like a real college student!
Besides, if I didn’t know the answer to something, I just put down “Rob of the Sky”. Hey, it looks like the quadratic formula to me!
I usually got better grades than the people sitting around me in school, and even if I didn’t get a better grade, I didn’t care about my scores, so I didn’t copy off anyone else’s tests. I always let people copy off me and, even when I didn’t have anyone ask if they could copy, I made a point of not covering up my paper. I also wrote a few English papers for friends and freely provided homework answers.
Martin Luther King Jr. was okay with it, so why not?
Not at all. I didn’t cheat on tests mostly because I was too scared of being caught. I was accused once in Grade 8 and it really upset me because it wasn’t true. My eyes do wander a bit when I take tests, but not in search of free answers. I just can’t stare at a piece of paper for that long. Sometimes I get caught up in watching those around me taking the test. It’s funny seeing how people position themselves and the small mannerisms they do. As for homework, I didn’t see the merit in copying other people’s work. Besides, teachers are not as stupid as students think they are.
I used a lot of notes on the hand, or sometimes little cheat cards, or strategic seating. Of course, I liked to consider myself the master of rephrasing my own thoughts, amazon book reviews, sparknotes, wikipedia, and my sister’s old essays into such a finally woven essay nobody would be able to tell it was plagiarism. In college I got “caught” but let off easy, so now I’ve backed off from that best I can.
I cheated on exactly three tests that I remember. All before high school. (I think second grade?) Two were spelling tests, and the second time a boy saw me and told on me. The last time was in math. My mom had saved box tops or something and had gotten me a watch with a calculator on it. I was dumb enough to use it in math class. The teacher saw me and took it. I was too ashamed to tell my parents and that was the only way to get it back. So I never got it back. I never cheated again either. I am kinda glad I got caught both times.
Obviously you’ve never been to Croatia – almoast everybody cheats here all the time every test and every homework. I didnt cheat much on homework but coped with being graded if cought without it. I cheated on some tests but not many. It’s pretty common here in Croatia. I know Americans make a big deal out of it but here you are expected to cheat and you are called crazy or insane if you’re not doing t (yes, I’ve been called both and then some).
Is this ‘confessions of the boy you let cheat off you in high school but didnt know your name’? Hahaha. To answer your question, yes, and we were really good at it. It was like seven of us. And I took those skills and did the best bullshitting in college. And that, is ‘confessions of a lazy mofo.’
In all seriousness, I think I did more learning outside the classroom so I didnt feel as bad.
Tried once but when I got the answers wrong, I didn’t do it again.
i don’t think i’ve ever cheated haha
i used to do certain others’ homework. actually, i still dc.
mainly spelling and Spanish ( i was friends with a girl that understood it better then i did). As for papers, my teachers a lot of times assigned advance papers to write so i ended up reusing the paper again a year later in another class.
No. I was always afraid I’d get caught.
so you copied all her biology papers then took her best friend to a dance instead of her? Not only are you dishonest, you are a douche-bag.
So you only cheated once in college then gave it up? What, you looking for a morality award?
Speaks volumes of your character. If you had no conscience about cheating and being dishonest, you’d have no conscience about stealing or lying either. You’d make a great employee. Would you lie and cheat your way through med school and become a surgeon, where other people’s lives were in your hands? Apparently wouldn’t bother you much. Botch a surgery then go screw their wife.
Not knowing or caring about basic right from wrong is a disease that has permeated this country. And it is the reason we as a society are on a downhill slide. Everyone for themselves, Get ahead at all costs. Screw the other guy.
Some of us know right from wrong and choose to do right so we can walk down the street with our head held high, and sleep at night. But I guess there are those among us who have no conscience, no shame, no moral convictions, and don’t give a crap about right and wrong.
It’s obvious where you stand.
@lowflyingsquab - hey, don’t leave us hanging here! what was your final grade? (blank)?
No, I never cheated. I think that’s kind of lousy too. I mean, people are all about how important education is or whatever, but I guess it seems like half the people who are “educated” just cheated their way through anyway. Now you make like a billion dollars a year and the honest people are stuck working at minimum wage at some retail place.
Nice guys finish last, I suppose.
I cheated more in high school than I do in college. I prefer actually doing the work and EARNING the grades.
I honestly cheated a few times in middle school, but gave it up forever in 8th grade and would never do it again. It’s a terrible thing.
I am scanning my memory banks and can not remember an exam that I cheated on. That is not to say I didn’t. It is to say that I used to smoke a LOT of weed.
I would only cheat in my Spanish class. I would wear shorts and write the answers on my leg.
@suggestivetongue - It’s funny you should say that, because I’d agree, my eyes definitely wandered while I was in school, but if I saw someone with an answer that was different than mine, I was more likely to think “What are they talking about? That’s not the right answer!” than “Oh, they’re right, I should probably change mine…”
I did in one highschool math class, but I haven’t in college.
Yep I sure did.
@lowflyingsquab - Your final grade was what?? I can’t handle the suspense!
Nope, I mean… once in elementary school. But no, I wouldn’t feel like I earned the grade, plus I’d feel waaaay to guilty.
In middle school…a friend of mine and I “broke in” to a teachers room during lunch hour and changed the answers on a test we had taken the class period before. It was a test on a novel we were supposed to be reading, and no one in the class did the reading…so to teach us a lesson..the teacher said she would make the test worth 1/4 of our grade. I say broke in, but she left during lunch everyday to feed her new baby..and just so happened to leave her door unlocked.
was rather mischievous of us I’d say. Hope she doesn’t have a xanga, haha!
I cheated on tests (back of the calculator, write on the desk, note up the sleeve, book in my lap) for high school, but haven’t at all in college.
wow, people cheat on test and assignments?
i thought people only cheat by copy and paste something to post a xanga post…
In high school I cheated on a few homework assignments, but NEVER on an exam. I knew kids who did cheat on homework all the time and they never made anything of their lives.
Cheating in highschool was easy but pointless so I never bothered. With the current state of things you could waltz through the system halfbaked and still earn a degree given you’re slightly sharper than average and put in about 30% effort while avoiding pregnancy.
College is different now, especially for certain universities. Constant proctors loom over us and the grading curve encourages is to be more cut throat than in the days of yore. On top of that online solidarity in homework struggles have changed “cheating” as you knew it. It’s now both legitimized and easier without really being “wrong.”
No, I didn’t cheat. Occasionally in junior high I would sneak a look at someone else’s answer, but I never changed my own. Haha, I think I was just too anxious to figure out if I got it right or not. I didn’t cheat though.
In 7th grade I would get so irritated with people cheating off my paper, I would surround my desk with propped up books so no one could see ANYTHING.
~V
Yup. Cheat on most of my homework and rarely quizzes but yesterday was a special day for cheating!
No. I just can’t bring myself to do it. I feel too bad.
I attempted to cheat back in elementary school and got caught, ever since then I’ve avoided it. I don’t remember ever having to cheat on anything in high school. It was pretty much like this- learn the new lesson, go home and do homework on said lesson, have a quiz or test on the lesson a day or two later. I still pretty much remembered what we went over so I didn’t need to cheat. Even when final exams came around and the test were cumulative I still retained enough information to do pretty well.
10th grade dropout
So no I have not cheated at test’s
But I have cheated in life in small ways..at the video store, libraries, PRODUCE SECTIONS!!!!!
I see no point in cheating. You don’t learn anything, and people will expect you to know the subject well.
As for the class of 8 kids that got kicked out, read this article. It was just brought up in my ethics class the other day:
http://www.1800duilaws.com/dui-articles/cobb_county_georgia_police_recruits.asp
too clumsy to cheat… clumsy with people and clumsy with lying.
@christykim - I got an “A”, and the professor made note that although I had gotten the organism wrong, I had clearly done the work.
I hardly ever cheated. But there was one biology test in high school where I managed to cram about four pages worth of notes onto a scrap of paper the size of a couple postage stamps. I was pretty proud of myself at the time. People came up with some pretty creative means of cheating in that class though. One guy would get about 20 plain old Bic pens, type up his notes in the smallest font possible, and then cut up his notes and tape them to the pens. He’d just keep them all in his sweatshirt pocket and change them out when he needed to. Everyone was amazed that he never got caught. Another guy would make these crazy abstract drawings that would look like random (albeit awesome) doodles to most people, but they actually had codes for test answers hidden in them.
In college, I think I only cheated once. We were given like 10 extra assignments that we could do for extra credit if we wanted to, so we got a big group of people together after class one day and we each picked one assignment to do. Then we just passed the assignments around in a circle until everyone had all the assignments copied down.
I’d rather learn most of the time…plus in college, I’m paying thousands of dollars to attend these classes. I’d be a real idiot not to take in the material being taught.
Back in high school a lot of my friends cheated on tests and assignments in Advanced Placement classes[ironically, they cheated much more than students in average classes I took]. It seemed the effort they put in to making cheat sheets and arranging their seats was ridiculous; why waste your energy planning to cheat when you could spend that same time just reviewing the material for the test? Not cheating just seemed easier to me; maybe I’m strange 0.0
no. i definitely had people try to cheat off of me though.
No. I don’t cheat… I work for it, get what I get.
I’m smart enough not to have to. :)
I’m not going to be a liar. We’ve all copied at some point or didnt bother doing something because we didnt understand but cheating in the long run hurts you because all you do it copy work, not learn it.
To be fair, some people do cheat because the genuinely dont understand but they’re embarrassed to say so. Not everyone learns the same way. I’m a visual/linguistic person & the next commenter after me may learn better with audio or they may be a Kinesthetic learner. People are usually taught in one style (which is visual/linguistic often) & have to learn how to do things in a style that fits them later on. I think if people try to help people early on, they can avoid major problems but the school system apparently either doesnt want to bother with the work or they dont believe that.
I did once in fifth grade because my friend and I were out in the hall finishing our tests, and she wanted to go back into the classroom, and she said “just write down what I did!” and got kinda mad so I did. But I felt bad.
And sometimes my friends and I copy homework from each other if it’s bookwork- because that’s kinda copying from the book anyway, and no one ever even reads the chapters, they just skim. So I don’t think it really counts as cheating because it requires no brainpower to copy from a book.
What? No.
I was one of those people who told the teacher about others’ cheating.We all have to work for what we get, earn our rewards, in real life.
I’m not at liberty to say.
I try not to but somtimes you just have to
A few times, usually by entering formulas into the memory of my graphing calculator. Still had to do all the math, but didn’t have to memorize formulas. I suppose as cheating goes, that’s pretty tame.
That being said, I don’t think you would have been my friend for long, Dan. I have on several occasions caught people cheating off me and screwed them over nicely. I’ve gone and filled in the wrong answers, allowed them to finish copying like I didn’t notice, then when they submitted their test, erased and changed all my answers to the correct ones. My prize moment though was getting paid to do someone’s final. I accepted the payment, then intentionally failed their final.
I’ve always loved to learn, so cheating never occurred to me. I’m amazed at the lengths some of my students have gone to in order to cheat. It would be less time and effort just to learn the material!
I copied home work not because I didn’t know the answers but because I forgot to do it… lol I did cheat on a few quizzes and helped other cheat… it wasn’t an on going thing it was oh shit i forgot about this type thing… lol
I never cheated in high school, but I cheated once in college; the profesor gave us three essay questions to take home and study for the final exam and said that we would have to write an in-class essay on one of them, which he would chose on the day of the final. So I wrote essays for all three questions at home, brought them with me to the final, and copied one of them into my exam book. I didn’t even really need to cheat, even if I failed the final I would have passed the class with a B, but since my scholarships required me to maintain all A’s I would have lost them. It’s sad that financial aid can drive people to do things like that.
I cheated on my girlfriend.
…just kidding.
Dear Dan,
I never cheated in my life. (I did borrow a few books from the library which I never returned, but that’s a different thing altogether.) I gained a 3.86 gpa in high school (when 4.0 was tops and I couldn’t get a 4.0 because they didn’t give out A’s in remedial P.E.) by possilby being the guy others cheated off of. Seriously, none of the folks I remember in any of my classes were cheaters.
You just want your readers to open up. I do believe you’re lying, and you never cheated in school at all.
I do remember that in junior high, a lot of students were told to rewrite papers because they simply copied from the Encyclopedia. I bet a lot of kids today do the exact same thing, except they use Wikipedia instead.
Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool
i started cheating in sixth grade. the first test i cheated on was a religion test… lol. i cheated a lot in high school. everyone did. ap kids, advanced students, general students. and i went to two different high schools, one was a public school and the other private. says a lot about the kids in kentucky haha. i let people cheat off me and i cheated off others during quizzes. i’ve looked up things on google from my phone and took pictures of spanish vocab words and copied homework. i’ve written on my hands and legs and the desk. i’m in college now and me and my friends copied each other’s freshman seminar quizzes since we did them online and turned them in during class. they were easy fifteen question quizzes. i haven’t cheated in any other class in college, i take it way more seriously than high school. high school was really a joke. college is the road to my career… and universities do not tolerate cheating at all. i’m too afraid to cheat and get caught in college.
Yes, usually not to my own benefit, but for someone else’s. (I was one of those smartass kids in school.) I’m a total sucker when it comes to helping people, and it’s dumb, I know. In 11th grade Pre-Cal, the guy I gave answers to got a 90 on his final exam. I was caught cheating, and I got a 50. Yeah, you better believe how pissed off I was. And how I haven’t helped anyone since.
For myself, I’ve never really needed to cheat. Through elementary and middle school, I didn’t need to study for As. In high school, I started off a bit poorly because the environment was different, but once I got the hang of actually studying, things got better. Oh, but in math classes I would never actually do the homework problems, I would just look in the back of the textbook for the answers, lol.
Homework only. I never cheated on tests, even if I had the opportunity.
Nope, most of the time people were asking me for the answers, and I always gave them the wrong ones, they stopped asking afterwards, and I didn’t have to worry about listening to them beg anymore, win for me.
i cheat,
but, my teacher dosnt really caree?
seems like all the people who helped you cheat were female
It was so easy to cheat in highschool, it was hard not to. I know for a fact that most of my friends did. Now in college I know tons of people who still do, but I almost feel like your cheating yourself if you do. Plus you have so much more to lose, in my highschool you usually just ended up failing the assignment if you got caught.
Honestity. We most teach our children to learn and form themselves instead of cheating. Otherwise, how can we build a better world with great people? http://bit.ly/h7HMxN
I use to cheat on my English test in High School until I got caught.
I cheated once on a math multiplication test but got caught and never did it again.
Yes; I tried to cheat on a test once, and it backfired on me. I should share my story w/ a blog. (:
I don’t understand why the system is set up so that you have to cheat. The only important thing is not whether or not you know the answer, it’s whether or not you can find the answer when you need it. That’s how life works, why should school be different. Imagine if you had to memorize the answer to every possible mathematical calculation. Fuck no! Mathematics is about teaching you how to find the answer, and that’s what is tested. Open book tests should be the norm for all general study subjects, and knowledge tests should only be required when someone is preparing to enter a field professionally. People who want to learn will do so on their own, and people who don’t want to learn won’t no matter what you do. The system as it stands now sucks.
I cheated accidentally in elementary school; I looked over for some reason and ended up seeing the answer on someone else’s paper. I cheated tons in my after school chinese class, though it was mostly people cheating off of me. And the teacher didn’t give a shit anyway so the tests were like public discussions. I was accused of cheating in middle school even though I didn’t; there wasn’t enough space on the test for me to do work so I did it on the desk and forgot to rub it off. I was punished for getting caught letting someone cheat off of me (also in middle school). I don’t recall ever cheating (for my own benefit; people still cheated off of me) in high school or college.
It irks me a lot when people cheat; if you don’t know/ don’t care about the material, just ‘fess up. If you really tried and still don’t get it, cheating still won’t get you to understand the material. The point of grades is not to see who can get a higher one, it’s just a way (albeit a really bad one, imo) for professors to get a grasp on how well the students are processing the lectures. Knowing the material is supposed to be the real goal. I just don’t really like grades
Nope. I was usually one of the smarter kids in the class, so what would be the point? It’s probably cheesy, but the whole, “You’re really just cheating yourself.” thing really makes sense to me. Why even put forth the effort of going to school in the first place if you’re not going to take away anything from it? (That said, I used to cut class all the time like a mofo. LOL)
I cheated in 8th grade algebra because I didn’t know shit. People cheated off of me in high school. Now I just offer help to anyone who needs it.
@Jal_Phoenix - omg…it’s like I’m hearing my dad all over again. I swear he always said these EXACT words.
I’ve copied homework. And I’ve tried to cheat on a few tests… I just couldn’t do it though. Fright, panic, guilt – whatever it was~ So it kind of amazes me when I think about how many people in my school cheat so easily and often, that teachers know and kind of don’t care anymore.
@bAbiiExxPiNay - Sounds like a wise man!
in highschool i cheated a lot in history or other classes. i had lots of different techniques from pen tricks to little note papers etc. but in college i never cheat. i mean i realized that i’m in college.. i pay for my education what is the point of cheating through it? really? i would much rather accept my F than cheat (which i did many times in college). ya, don’t cheat! the best way of studying is making cheat sheets. you’re studying by preparing to cheat anyways. so mind as well put that time in studying.
oh, i never cheated for homework. i just didn’t even bother doing it. (i’m just a lazy student).
i did last trimester for biology- the kid sitting next to me never did his homework but got a 90% or better on tests. i did my homework, though.
in junior high, had an arrangement with my best friend that we would only do every other assignment, and then let the other copy. worked out pretty well lol
edit: but i’ve never cheated on anything big, like a test or a project or something, and i never did after junior high either.
Did you honestly not feel remorse about any of this? I mean, I’m sure everybody has cheated at least once or twice in their life (myself included), but most people don’t write a post to show it off. Maybe that wasn’t your intention with this blog, but…I guess that’s kind-of how I took it. And although most people cheat at least once or twice, I don’t think the majority of people cheat to the extent that you did. Do you honestly think that those actions built a good reputation for yourself? Do you honestly feel like you earned that degree? Do you honestly feel like your actions were fair to any of the other students (in particular, the ones who actually busted their tail to down their own work) OR the teacher (who worked hard to create a lesson that you would enjoy and gain knowledge from)?
Maybe I’m taking your post the wrong way, but I guess it just struck a nerve in me. I was always the student in school that people tried to cheat off of. Kids would try to use me and pretend that we were closer friends than we really were, just so they could use my answers and my brain. I excelled in college because I had the work ethic that helped me. Those kids that cheated…not so much. On top of not having good study habits, they also weren’t able to retain any of the information they “learned” in high school. Although I realize that everyone will cheat probably at least a few times, I just don’t think it’s the route to go… whether that’s academically, romantically, or in my career. But to each his own, I guess.
I am proud to say that I earned all grades honestly… too bad that it didn’t translate into A’s. (maybe I should have cheated)
Pssssshhhhhhhhh high school and college was such a breeze for me that I stayed drunk all the time and got A’s and never even had to cheat
high school, yes but now that i’m in college…No
meh, highschool is for suckers anyways, you can get good jobs (and grades) after highschool. some even encourage it. as for the cheating aspect, go ahead and cheat, cheat all you want, but in the end, their gonna figure it out when you can’t deliver what you were supposed to already know. and then, your fired. besides, what’s the point in paying money for a school your not going to learning anything from when you cheat? unless of course its because your teacher is bias. but none the less. i cheated once or twice. like most people no doubt.
after all, cheating is lying’s ugly cousin.
Now, THAT explains a lot. So, how many hail Mary’s before you felt holier-than-thou again?
I’ve cheated in writing math formulas on my hand. I still feel really bad about it. But I don’t like math, and I don’t know why I’m even taking calculus this year when I don’t need to. Other than that, I really don’t approve of cheating- especially off from other people.
Truthfully, I’d rather fail honestly than cheat. I’m a really paranoid person and have a huge guilty conscience. =
A couple of times =/
…how come all your ‘friends’ are females?
I don’t cheat. I never have, though I remember I once let a boy copy an assignment in 3rd grade and I got in a lot of trouble for it (I liked him
).
I’m one of those overachieving type students (which is probably why I’m going to end up teaching).
Only if needed (:
Or nerdy guys offer, which is how i passed algebra last year.
i cheated once in 2nd grade for a spelling test and got caught, that was enough for me..than in 11th grade did a term paper and the teacher didnt like me she gave me a C i had an A average all thru school in English til her…the next year a friend asked me if i would give him my term paper and sure enuff he got a B on my paper….go figure
WOWWW. That is just lowww. Like beyond low. I’m sorry to say that, I really am. But I don’t regret it.
And I pray (or hope, if you are not a religious person) that deep down, you feel sorry for what you did.Because believe it or not, I used to be one of those people in your story. Except. I’m the “smart” girl that my classmates cheat on. And trust me, it does not feel too great to be used like that =/
So to answer your question, I have never and would never cheat. On hw or tests or people. But I guess I did play some part when I let people cheat off my paper..
I actually just cheated on my final exam for science today.
@Luv_is_infinite - im usually the smart girl that everyone cheats off too, but it isnt wrong if your smart and make sure to get things in return.
I attempted cheating twice in highschool.
The first time, I was making up a test in a room alone and still ended up only making a B.
The second time, I hid notes in my makeup compact. I hadn’t even looked inside of it when my teacher came around and requested to look inside it. Thankfully, he forgot to mention it to my parents.
Now that I’m in college, I can’t see the point in cheating. I like knowing that I earned the grade that I deserved.
I overheard a girl in one of my classes talking about how she took a class last quarter and it was really hard, so she cheated off of the guy next to her.
Not only that, but it was a class directly related to her major.
I never cheat. I’m a good girl.
I cheated only in Math or any accounting class. LOL . Instead of those subjects, most of my friends copied my tests, paper, and homework. HHAHAHAHA so 50:50
But now I’m a colleger so no accouting subject
You didn’t go to the dance with that girl who let you copy her!!! Anyway…cheating in college isn’t worth it, I gave it up too.
I don’t think I’ve ever cheated, and I never will. I’m an honest guy. Plus I’m much too particular about my work to let anyone else do it.
my friends and i always cheat on homework. lol in my math class, one kid does his homework, and sends it to some kid that night, and in the morning before school he gives it to somebody, maybe two people, and then the kid who sits next to me gets it, and then he gives it to me in the 4 minutes we have between the class before and that class. it’s a systematic cheating.
and tests and stuff yeah, but not so much. its kinda hard to cheat on tests, teachers separate us…i wonder why lol.
i used to cheat all the time through out middle school and all the way up to college. i think it had to do with the pressure of bringing home good grades and being seen as smart. i think i decided to cheat in middle school. and always been the smart kids who devise neat little tricks to cheat. (the dumb kids really don’t know how to, and besides they get caught when they try) –you’ed be surprised how many honors students cheat…
the only memorable time that i got caught cheating–well i didnt get caught i was ratted on. was in the 7th grade, we had a sub that day and a test, so i cheated because i was a little behind in that class i go a 86 and a week later our teacher came back. he literally stopped me in the hall way and yelled at me (he was partially upset b/c i was his “brightest” student) and he told me that some other student snitched to the sub that i was cheating. now i knew who it was, this bitch named kim. so i said it to his face “its kim right? you know why we’re not friends any more? you know that she’s just trying to get back at me?”
–at that he calmed down and told me i could retake that test the very same day.he made me sit right next to his desk and watched me like a hawk. i actually studied and got a 96. yes a 96. so when he very quietly called me up to his desk in the middle of class, and handed me my graded paper, i broke the pin drop silence and said: “now if i had cheated would i have gotten a 96?” whilst flashing the paper to the class, “dont you think that if i had cheated, and didnt have my cheat sheet today, and sat in your face do you think i’ed actually get a freaking A!??”
“this is to the idiot in this class who thinks she can snitch on me”
“–and thank you cuz i had a 86 but since you thought you could embarrass me by making me retake the test, thanks to you i have a better grade”
instantly her face got all red, because i was looking right at her and about half the class knew her for the bitch she was….
lol, good times….
The reason I suck in college now is because I cheated my way through high school.
Wow. I’m really surprised by the answers here. I’ve never cheated and I don’t plan to.
i tried the hand method once in high school for a literature test. all that time i spent writing notes onto my hand was actually study time. i ended up not needing my hand at all. hahaha. XD and anyway, i glanced at my hand later, after i took the test, and realized that i didn’t even understand all that crazy jargon i had written down. all those last minute acronymns, abbreviations, and analogies made NO SENSE at all! what was i thinking?! it was a complete fail. but i aced the test, so it wasn’t too bad.
BTW i knew A LOT of kids like you when i was growing up.. ironically, they were always sitting by me or in my group. this one kid in jr. high actually got frustrated with me, because i wouldn’t let him see my answers, so he stole my paper and copied it, said sorry, and handed it back!! D: not cool. sooo not cool.
Never cheated on tests, etc. Though, I honestly let people cheat off of me. I was… kind of a smart Miss Popular. =(
I do not believe I ever cheated.
Tests, no. And I wouldn’t let someone use me to cheat.
Study groups, though? Of course. People learn in groups. They do their best work in collaboration, but a test is still the only measure of the individual’s ability on his/her own.
When I taught high school(I teach martial arts now) I did a lot of group work in class and for major projects. Tests were pretty ironclad and you couldn’t cheat on them. I once had a student turn in a paper that he claimed to have written, but it was college level and he was barely scraping by in class – even during collaboration. I presented him with a cloze test, and he couldn’t recreate his “own” paper, with every 10th(mostly if’s, the’s and other inconsequential words) word removed. Later his coach came in all in my face that she was sure, I had accused her of writing the paper. I hadn’t, but I sure suspected it
I cheated my way through a spanish class in high school, that’s it.
Not in High School. I “cheated” in 1st grade by erasing my incorrect answers and filling in correct answers when I was supposed to recopy the whole paper on a fresh sheet of paper. Yeah…big time!
I used to, and then I realized I’m only cheating myself and stopped.
I’m such a good kid.
Yes, I have, but it usually didn’t help. I’ve since learned to trust myself because more often I was right and my peers were wrong.
So do you cheat when writing your posts?
Article is very interesting,thanks for your sharing.
And We supply high quality <a href="http://www.weddingdressesshop.co.uk">Cheap wedding dresses,<a href="http://www.weddingdressesshop.co.uk/ball-gown-wedding-dress-22">Ball Gown Wedding Dresses and other style wedding gowns.
We have been dress business for 20 years and you can trust us completely.
Our <a href="http://www.weddingdressesshop.co.uk">wedding dress shops have Evening Dresses,Prom Dresses,<a href="http://www.weddingdressesshop.co.uk/mother-of-the-bride-dress-13">mother of the bride dresses,A-Line Wedding Dresses,Empire Wedding Dresses,<a href="http://www.weddingdressesshop.co.uk/mermaid-wedding-dress-23">Mermaid Wedding Dresses and so on.You can find your dream <a href="http://www.weddingdressesshop.co.uk/beach-wedding-dress-18">Beach Wedding Dresses here.
We do retail and wholesale wedding dresses business.Get your <a href="http://www.weddingdressesshop.co.uk/plus-size-wedding-dress-20">Plus Size Wedding Dresses from <a href="http://www.weddingdressesshop.co.uk">wedding dresses uk right now!