Cheating on exams or test is something that everyone did at least once in their lives. Someone has a really big experience, others don`t respect cheating on exams. Cheating is something that helps people to avoid studying that seems useless for them. It's happened to just about everyone.
You have a test coming up and you've completely forgotten to study. Or, you have a test coming up and you just don't want to study because there are better ways to spend your time, like living your life for example. In the internet you can easily found tons of ways how to cheat.
Some of examples of cheating:
1) It's Just Water
2) The Masterfully Genius iPhone Smuggle
3) The Pen Was Just Made Like This
In a survey of 24,000 students at 70 high schools, McCabe found “64% of students admitted to cheating on a test, 58% admitted to plagiarism and 95% said they participated in some form of cheating, whether it was on a test, plagiarism or copying homework.”
So, what could possibly lead to such behaviors?
Students has various reasons to cheat:
It can be intentional decisions made at the very beginning of the month. Often it is motivated by the easy path to success.
Also, students aren’t being taught how to paraphrase. As a consequence, they just cut and paste from the articles they read on the internet – it is easy, quick and takes very little effort to do this.
Another reason is being unconfident in their own thoughts. So when they have to express their own idea it is better to go to the internet for some good ideas.
Questions:
1) Did you ever cheat on exams? Why? What most unusual ways did you use to do that?
2) Do you think it is normal to cheat on exams? Please explain why yes, why not.
3) How do you think teachers who used their energy on studying students will feel when they catch their student cheating?
Sources:
https://www.ranker.com/list/cheating-wins/ashley-reign
http://nymag.com/news/features/cheating-2012-9/
http://theconversation.com/why-do-students-cheat-listen-to-this-deans-words-40295
http://nymag.com/news/features/cheating-2012-9/
http://theconversation.com/why-do-students-cheat-listen-to-this-deans-words-40295
Comments
When it comes to unusual ways, I once saw a guy that had a laptop on his legs. It was obviously visible, but the teacher didn't care about that, he probably lost all hope in us by that time.
I understand people cheating on exams, because in most of the cases teachers have bad approach to tests - they do it to prove students how little they now, not to check what their strong and weak sides are.
2. I tried not to use the method of cheating, as I always taught myself, and if I wrote off, then I did not like this subject or did not have time to prepare beforehand.
3. I saw how teachers react to cheating, and the more the teacher invested in his lectures, the more they took offense at what the students are writing off.
haha first photo is very funny. Of course, I cheated on exams. I think everyone did it. I bought a special watch where you could put different sentences and photos. I know that today we have smartwatches, but I bought this watch about 6 years ago. Maybe it's only a few years but then there were no smartwatches. We shouldn't cheat, but in every study we have classes that should't be there. There is a lot of learning by heart which in large part isn't useful.
Yes, of coarse. Because there is no enough time in life to dedicate so much on unnecessary things.
2) Do you think it is normal to cheat on exams? Please explain why yes, why not.
I think it depends, if we eliminate stupid stuff from program and will examine not ability to remember things, but ability to apply knowledge to practical tasks.
3) How do you think teachers who used their energy on studying students will feel when they catch their student cheating?
Are all teachers really teach well? Usually when classes was done bad, then on exam you know nothings, and vise versa, good teachers rarely have bad students that need to cheat.
I think it is normal that students cheat on exams. In high school or in collage , we learn many things that simply do not interest us and they are not related to the choice of our professional path. But we must pass it because education requires it. I believe that it is better to focus on the issues, lectures and subjects that you choose, than to learn everything.
I think that teachers should not take it too personally and consider it as their failure. Students decide about themselves, they must learn from their own mistakes and make their own decisions. Teachers should try to convey the knowledge to most students, but do not worry if someone is not interested in their subject and cheats on exams.
No, because even if I cheat and pass the exam I won't succed in work or anywhere where I should know this information so it makes no sense.
I think teachers feel bad and not statisfied but students are just students, there will always be someone who is cheating.
2) I think it's normal, because why should i cram something that I don't need, and is mostly useless
3)I have no idea, probably I need to be a teacher to know that!
I think most teachers doesn't care. I think they know that it is impossible to know everything if you have this many other classes to learn whole book to pass. But that is only my opinion.
I hated my history lessons in school with all my heart but my parents made me learn it. Instead I learned how to cheat without being even noticed. I think I gained way more better lesson from this history lessons :)
I don't know. You should probably ask teachers. But to my mind there are 2 types of students - the one that want to learn and the one that just don't care about this subject. If those students will get the teacher that don't know his/her subject or is not able to explain this subject in the way the students will get the information than most probably everyone will cheat on his/her exam
Yes I did, because sometimes I needed to. It was mainly because I thought, that this lecture is not that important for me, so it wouldn't be anything bad to cheat on it a little bit. Usually I was doing it with my cell phone.
2) Do you think it is normal to cheat on exams? Please explain why yes, why not.
I think it's normal, but it doesn't mean that it is good - the examination system should be reworked. Nowadays we have a lot of mediums, so we can just "google" anything - why we can't check, if people can find answer for their problems by themselves? Of course it's not applying to all of the lectures
3) How do you think teachers who used their energy on studying students will feel when they catch their student cheating?
I think that they're aware of it, so it's not a surprise for them.
Being able to work under pressure is a skill sometimes even valuable why shouldn't be being good at getting an advantage while needed an important skill ? Yes if i hear that my surgeon has cheated on his exams i would be scared but on the other hand if i did not know that would i see the difference ? For me what matters is an end result anyways.
How do you feel a student with 7 days of constant exams feels when they hear that their teacher is incapable of even emphasizing with them being overloaded ? How do you think one feels when someone thinks their subject is "the most important" ?
How does a student feel when he gets to take a test with no valuable information on it? How often do you use facts from History lessons ? Once a year it comes handy? or even less. There are subjects less important than color of the wall in some people life and every system of teaching i saw always downplays it.
Last question is very hard because I can't think like teacher but in my opinion he can be disappointed because it seems like he didn't interests his students. Why do I think that? If course is interesting then studying is pleasure for me and I really want to know everything so I don't need to cheat.
Teachears are aware of that and in my opinion they shouldn't feel angry. If someone don't want to learn why they have to force him to do that. Only what they should prevent is to judge based only on 1-2 exams not on everyday work and progress.
How do you think teachers who used their energy on studying students will feel when they catch their student cheating?
You know, it's hard to tell. There are teachers like "My subject is the most important one, blablabla" and they make it all harder. If teacher is encouraging enough with his/her teaching, then you don't need to cheat on exam, because you'll listen gladly.
1) Did you ever cheat on exams? Why? What most unusual ways did you use to do that?
Sometimes, but I won't tell when, and how, that's secret way that when using it I was never caught
2) Do you think it is normal to cheat on exams? Please explain why yes, why not.
It's not, but after all, you wont use knowledge learned on polish universities. Its about dealing with serious problems, and finely resolving them, not about learning formulas by hearth.
3) How do you think teachers who used their energy on studying students will feel when they catch their student cheating?
I think they will recall their youth - when they were cheating during exams
As for me - yes. I belive that exams should test your ability to find stuff as quickly as possible and understand where to find them, but not neccessery remember all of them.
As for me, if students can cheat its good for him. Life will test him, and his ability to know the answear to current situation, If this student will know how to deal with it, I dont judge.