I think cheating is really a problem. It is unfair to students who do not cheat. More and more students begin to cheat during exams. They always think that they can cheat in the exam, so they think that they do not need to study in ordinary time. Therefore, cheating has great harm to students and society. Kevin,
China April 7, 2003 In my country, cheating is also a serious problem in school, especially high schools and universities. So there are lots of rules and methods to avoid it. For instance, all students have their own number when they tend to hava a exam. Sometimes they will be given a card with a number and photo. If you are caught, you will be punished seriously, and in some univerisities you will even be expelled by school just at the first time. Cherie,
China March 24, 2003 Cheating is either a good thing or a bad thing. The people who say it is good sometimes are the ones who know that it is never good. They are just trying to justify themselves so that they do not feel guilty. The people who say cheating is fine and that you need to cheat to get by have some serious logic problems. Sure there are a lot of cheaters out there and they are making it hard for other people to do well. If you don't cheat you are making life easier for the other non-cheaters. I mean if only one person in your class cheated, they probably wouldn't do so well. Another thing, smart kids who cheat to help their "friends" have to figure out that their "friends" really are not friends. Who wants a dishonest friend? When you are being dishonest, it's the only kind of friend you can make. Cheating is not honest, or moral, and those who cheat lack integrity. Anonymous March 24, 2003 I think cheating is very common in all schools, everybody once in the life cheat. It is not a big problem, and sometimes it doesn't depend on how the student worked in home, the student just can't do the test. It's a sure thing that a student who always cheats will have future problems, but a student that doesn't do this in all the tests is okay. You must study for all your tests, but if you need to cheat once, go ahead! Karen,
Brazil March 24, 2003 I think that cheating is not a big problem, but it can harm your future! Because "once a cheater, always a cheater" and then you don´t learn nothing. You will have difficulty in the examination test...consequently, you don´t go to a university! So the best thing to do is study hard and you just have win with this! Gabriela,
Brazil March 24, 2003 There are some people who thinks that cheating's not a ploblem, they say somethink like "C´mon, It´s not that huge, I´m just cheating", well, I have a story to tell, I was doing my English test, when my friend asked me to exchange the tests. It was my first time cheating, so we tried, but we made a HUGE mistake. He took the first page of the test and I took the second. When the teacher turned to see what was going on, he saw each of us holding one page of the test. We both went to the principal´s office and got an 0 (zero). Yeah, I learned with my mistakes... Willow
Rosenberg, U.S.A. March 24, 2003 If you are used to cheating just some times, no problem, but if you cheat all the time, it can harm you. You won't be able to get in a good university. The people have to think twice before cheating! Claudia,
Brazil December 12, 2002 In general, I agree that cheating is dishonest and foolish - we study in order to acquire some knowledge, and I think it is not "cheating skills". However, sometimes it is really difficult to avoid it because literally everyone is doing it. The only time I did not practise it on serious exam has been entering the university: I knew that if I would be caught nobody would listen my excuses. Anastasija
Sorokina, Latvia December 9 , 2002 I was given an assignment in my Ethics class to write a report on cheating. I think that cheating is bad, but truthfully everyone has tried it in some shape or form in their life. I personally have and sometimes I am not successful, but most the times I am. Cheating I think is wrong no matter what, if you feel you have to hide and be secrative about something it is wrong. This does not stop people from cheating. Some people make a job cheating people out of money and other things. Michaela
, U.S. November 22, 2002 I think frankly that cheating became a serious problem in my country. The students have misconceptions about cheating. They think that it is a kind of helping friends. What we have to do is to take this issue seriously. Thanks Iman,
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia November 18, 2002 Cheating is lying... and it eventually catches up with you. It's terrible.. Ever so easy.. but again, it will catch up with you and you will so regret it. It will catch up with you by you getting caught, or you not knowing stuff later when you just can't cheat, having that guilt knowing you did it and really don't know stuff... it's an endless list... Rachel,
U.S. May 6, 2002 Well I dont think that the teachers should even care in a boy or grl who cheats on a test is just hurting their self. so i feel u should just let them, but I do not think it is right 4 a teacher 2 say she seen some one cheating because they happened 2 talk, some teachers just need 2 chill and sit and get off of our backs. Noberto,
U.S. April 26, 2002 I think cheating is a really not a good idea to all students that doing it because its not gonna help them to learn everything... Kayssie,
Canada April 1, 2002 Cheating Good or Bad? 1. Bad: Some students cheat on an exams. I asked them, "Why did you cheat?" Some students answered me, "Because the exam is too difficult." But, I don't think so, I think they're lazy so they cheat. In school there are so many good students too. They study very hard to get an "A". Some good students even hate the cheating students. They must study very hard to get an "A" but, the cheating student Who doesn't study can get it. They feel it isn't fair. The answer is very simple. Because "It's not the problem whether you did cheating or not. The problem is you couldn't learn anything from cheating. If you pass the test by cheating someone else's paper, another more difficult class is waiting for you. 2. Good: I think so, because inside the class there are too many people. Sometimes the teacher can't teach me anything. In my class they have 30 people inside. So usually they can't study a lot. When the test comes in they feel afraid. We are afraid that we will fail. Then our families won't be happy. They will blame us, maybe we will be hit. So we cheat. Sang
Jin Kim, Korea April 1, 2002 In reply to: may opinion cheating is so risky bad habit. But, I don’t care if I see a person cheating during the test. My advice is don’t do that. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure because is easy to get at good degree but what goes up must come down because what goes around must come down. Carlos,
Costa Rica March 6, 2002 I think that cheating is common in schools and very understandable. This is because teachers give too much work and a lot of hard tests that force you into cheating. Therefore I think that teachers should STOP giving so much work and tests or else cheating is cool with me. I also think that teachers and people who work at school are bad at catching cheaters(that is a good thing) and that cheating is completely necessary at this current time. :) CHEAT ON! Wallart,
U.S. February 19, 2002 I think cheating is the way to go if it is the right kind of test. I was known as one of the best cheaters in my class and am proud of it. It made my life a lot easier when it came to tests. I just developed a system around seventh grade and have been using it to get in the top ten percent of my class. I won't dicuss how I cheat but I have to say it is fun to make up your system and try it. You have to ready for failure but just try again. Now I don't cheat on everything but only when I feel it is necessary. Sometimes teachers just expect to much and you have to study tremendous amounts of time to be prepared so why not cheat. I'll tell you this. It feels a lot better to outsmart the teacher than to just to earn a good grade. I earned my fair share of A's by studying but some had to be earned by cheating. Cheating isn't something that should be abused but cherished and used wisely. "Captain
Riptor", U.S. December 17, 2001 Some colleges and universities address the issue of academic dishonesty through an honor system. Students are on their honor not to engage in any form of cheating-plagiarism, copying on tests, crib notes, etc. The second requirement of an honor system is that any students who are aware of another student’s cheating must report it or be subject to the same penalties as the students who cheat, including expulsion. Why is the second provision considered essential to an honor code? Hung
Dang, U.S. May 20, 2001 We´re students from IS3, and we think cheating´s a bad choice. Because people don´t really learn, and someday they will need this knowledge they have missed and then they will realize they have done a stupid thing. Probably you won´t be able to apply for a job if you didn´t have that cultural base you should have had when you were in school. Though cheating seems good and easy by the moment you are doing it, it may ruin students who behave like this. People are used to cheating because sometimes they are insecure, iresponsable or addicted. Some of them know the subject, but want to be sure they won´t "forget". We believe it´s quite the same. Those things seldom change. Dariano,
Jucinara and Paula (Yázigi), Brazil March 19, 2001 Topics
Online, JD,
U.S. February 6, 2001 I think cheating is wrong, because all you do is look at answers and you do not learn nothing. Plus you will probably get them wrong anyways, and cheating means that you are a bad person so you do not want to cheat. Thank you, The
uncheating AJ man, U.S. November 16, 2000 I think cheating on tests is very common in my country. I guess almost everyone has the experience to be dishonest. The only difference between cheat is one gives and one takes. I don't encourage anyone to do that because this is quite unfair for those who have prepared for a long time. I think the purpose of tests is to let ourselves know if we understand what we have learned. So, just be honest and responsible for yourselves. Essen,
Taiwan October 26, 2000 Cheating may be an easy way to do well in school. However, when you really need to show your knowledge (not on a test) , you may not do as good as you did on a test. Unless you want to check your answers in the test by cheating you can get good grades and know the subject at the same time. Sometimes cheating may not be worthwhile. For instance: if you cheat in university and be caught, you take the risk of being expelled. Therefore,it's no use cheating, even if you are just checking or getting complete answers. Igor,
César and Fernando, Brazil October 26, 2000 Cheating
in school is not the best way to get good grades,
sometimes it`s necessary, though. If you didn't
study for a test and you ended up cheating, you are
lying to yourself, because you are not learning
anything from it. In addition to this, In your
future you will need this knowledge that you
didn't`t get in school. So, on the long terms you
will regret. We all don't think it is a big deal as
long as we just check the answer. October 15, 2000 Cheating is big problem to people who want to grow up in life. When you're in college, you can't cheat, 'cause you don't learn the subjects. So when you need your knowledge you don't have in your mind, a kind of it. Besides, the purpose of being college is studying and learning, so that you can't cheat, or you're against your principles. So you choose, cheat and don't learn, or study and grow up in your life. Tiago
Danda, Brazil
September 27, 2000 I am writing because I think that it is good subject for all students. Cheating sometimes is a good away for you pass the exam, but in all cases you do a bad thing for you, therefore sometimes you must not do it because you can not use it in your life. Marcus
Vinicius Silva, Brazil May 29, 2000 Updating
the Cheating Experience
The reason I am writing this letter is to show how students value the test, but not the real knowledge they have. I still remember teachers in Taiwan who got their master's degrees in America but couldn't speak English when they encountered native English speakers. In our society, people admire the particular group who have degrees from the western world and are supposed to speak fluent English. Sadly, people are fooled by these tricky guys who are good at the TOEFL test, so I hope the TOEFL test will be computerized in Taiwan as soon as possible so that the fairer standard can testify to our English ability. I really don't want to condemn that student who cheated, but I do feel angry about those guys who make a fake image and deceive other people who don't know English much and think they are the experts just because they once studied in America. I urge these impostors to use their recorder in the class, not at the tests, and to spend money to buy useful study materials or reference books, but not the official test book. Fred
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