re: Why is cheating in college so acceptable to some?

I cheated, but I knew we were breaking up soon. All the signs where there and it was going to be ugly. I felt like she was probably cheating too, so what the hell?

It was totally worth it. Now, I've been monogamous for over 20 years, so I don't think it had any last affects on my trustworthiness or ability to eat the same cereal everyday.

Please elaborate. I never cheated in college.. Well, I never looked at someone else's test, in the middle of taking a test, cheated. Ive come across a copy of a test a few times.. And one of those times it sort of backfired. A guy in my class was banging this chick who worked in a department in which she had access to test. Well the instructor had a different test for each class and the copy the girl got was the wrong one..

I had an A in the class and I could have scored a high B on the exam and would have still finished with an A. I didn't study for the final, looked over the copy of the exam before the exam, the copy our class was given wasn't even close to the copy we had, I made a low B on the final and finished with a B.

A few friends of mine, who had a class together, somehow come up with a system to cheat on a final exam and got caught. It was their first semester in college, I am not sure if it was a scare tactic, but they were really close to getting kicked out of school. Its up to the professor to report someone cheating and that's what happened to them. They had to write a letter, go appear in front of some board, etc.

I only cheated in one class in undergrad (never in grad school). It wasn't even a difficult class, our our cheating method was to save time.

I was in CHEM1202, can't remember the proffesor, but basically the whole class was out of 50 points, and we had 4 tests worth 10 points and the rest was homework, worth 1 point a piece (but you could get like 1.5/2 points) so all you needed to do was your homework and get an 80 on your test to get a 100% in the class.

Anyway, each test had ten questions multiple choice. Me and a few others guys would each pick a test to study for (Person A got 1, B got 2, C got 3, D got 4). The person who studied would take the test then save the answers in his TI-84, and pass it down the line.

The few times I made an effort to find a copy of an exam was for the reason you mentioned "to save time". Its not that I didn't know the material, its just that I would have had to go back and review all the material for the final and because I felt that I needed to put more time into another class, I would "prioritize" in terms of what class I needed to study for more, etc.

Other than that, I never even considered cheating in college. HS was a different story, but in college I actually learned the material.

Sometimes during finals in order to have time to study for other harder classes my friends and I would assign each other a chapter to study (instead of having to study all the chapters yourself).

It's definitely a gamble, but out of the handful of times we've done it we executed perfectly and got A's each time. Everyone did their part and studied their given chapter. The tests usually always have the same questions on it, but they're simply in a different order.

ETA: I think it's hilarious when students who never wear hats will wear hats only on test days

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I'm not surprised that dental students cheat at all. They continue cheating upon graduation. Nasty cheating bunch

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No argument here. I've said many times on here that there are a lot of crappy dentists around whose only motivation is money. There are only a handful of dentists I know that I fully trust.

Is working on homework as a group and sharing answers and solutions cheating?

I never cheated on exams. I discovered pretty early on that if I don't have a clue for the answer then the guy next to me is just as lost.

My initial thought was that I never cheated on anything in college. Then, I remembered my freshman year at LSU in a Chemistry class. The professor would talk for an hour and give chapters to read for homework but the tests rarely had much to do with either. I had a D average after the first two exams.

I asked a friend from high school how she studied for the exams. She said that the professor was known for rotating three old exams for each current exam and that her sorority gave her the relevant exams. She gave them to me and I immediately began making A's. I wasn't learning the material but spent enough time to simply learn the answers.

Would you consider this cheating? Feel free to use up votes (if not cheating) and down votes (if cheating).

My gf cheated in college. With my cousin, my friend, and a couple dudes I didn't know.

Because there are so many hot, frickable women there that even Jesus Christ would snake on his gf.