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Sadly, I have. I hate to admit it because I know I haven't learned it if I cheat. I am overly concerned with how good my grades "look" sometimes. I try really hard not to get caught up in it. I won't go into what I've done, but I have never stolen a test or anything that I would consider too bad. It's all about how well you can rationalize.

I can't believe your teacher leaves the room when you're doing tests! That's just asking for people to cheat.

We used to have "open book" tests sometimes where you'd have all your textbooks in there with you and just had to look stuff up to find the answers - I never quite worked out the point of those.

Well the teacher figures you gotta at least look at it ahead of time because if you just sit there paging through the text, looking for the answer, it will more than likely take you more time than is allowed on the test.

Soozy wrote:
We used to have "open book" tests sometimes where you'd have all your textbooks in there with you and just had to look stuff up to find the answers - I never quite worked out the point of those.

haha i never got them either..Didn't much make sense..My one teacher actually let me take my test home once. Now that was dumb.

xoNoDoubt69 wrote:

Soozy wrote:
We used to have "open book" tests sometimes where you'd have all your textbooks in there with you and just had to look stuff up to find the answers - I never quite worked out the point of those.

haha i never got them either..Didn't much make sense..My one teacher actually let me take my test home once. Now that was dumb.

It depends on what kind of test it is. If its a multiple choice type test or a short answer test then they dont make sense, but often we get tests that are essay based and you have to be able to support your essay with notes and quotes taken from the text. I think that kind of open book test is alright simply because you really have to know the topic quite well anyway in order to put together a decent essay.

Sparknotes are essential though. There's no possible way you can read every single thing thats thrown at you. Might as well get the jist of it and move on. Hell it's your choice if you want to read the book.

I've cheated quite a few times before. Not normally on tests, unless it's something like Math or Science, and I forgot a simple formula or something, then I usually glance at someone else's paper to se if I can see that one formula. .

Yeah, I can say that I've copied other people's homework sometimes, and I honestly haven't met a single person who hasn't done that at least once.

As for complete plagiarism, no, I've never taken someone else's paper and called it my own. Of course, I've taken people's ideas, but teachers actually call that 'Research' around here, but it's not, really... it's different.

Umm... I don't know what else to say. :\

The teacher leaves the room because there's one kid that has dyslexia, so he goes into the back room and reads the test to him. My entire class is counting on him leaving during the final this year, or we will be screwed like dinner. No one learned a single thing this year.

The only time I've done something I actually feel quilty about is last year, I found the final for socials by mistake. I showed it to one girl (the teacher was out of the room) because I just wanted to get the vocab so I wouldnt have to study the entire years worth of vocab. She was extremely stupid and stole the freaking test, and seeing as it was the teacher's only copy, she noticed. The teacher knew someone took it, so she made a new test.

The only time I've really gotten cought was last year during a french test, the teacher gave us our essay question before the test, so we would have time to think about it, and write it out so we could see where we made mistakes. I really needed to get a good mark on that test, so I made sure my essay was perfect, and brought it in with me. Needless to say, she noticed, and I got it taken away.

I think, on busy work, or for little stuff, it's ayite to cheat. Just so long as you're not stupid.

I have cheated before........me and another guy kept swapping tests during our OAC law test (grade 13) I'm sure I have done a few other little things during my high school reign. I got accused of plagarism in College and I went nuts on my instructor. I was mad because I just made a silly little metaphor that she thought was very good.......too good for me to have wrriten it. Anyways, she never accused me again after that.

When it comes to cheating, little helpful acronyms written on your hand is something I have thought about but never do. Its just a sign of desperation. usually I just let go of the stress and try and make it fun. That's just from experience.

Plagarism is very low..............its funny.....all you have to do is quote it or sum it up, then source it. Its really quite easy and makes you and your work that much stronger. It sets an extremely bad precedent for the school and for yourself to pawn things off. You owe it to yourself to do it correctly.

Cheating may help you pass a test, but in the end its just a sign of laziness and bad character waiting to be exposed.

i used to cheat on homework alot and spanish tests cause i could get away with it, i also used to get paid to do hw

i've cheated on tests before but nothing serious...well i guess cheating is a serious thing because their are the students who are trying to get into good schools after highschool and they might get screwed up with cheaters cheating...i have only written like little reminders on the desk to help me thru a certain spot that i always get caught in...nothing serious like how today in bio this kid next to me had cheat sheets in his pocket and he kept pulling them out and he had some stuffed into his tie...teacher never caught him but a few of us noticed... crazy kid! i have now realized that cheating isn't helping me with anything...sure it helps me pass the test but it won't help me later when i reely need that information and i should know it...cheating was only the worst thing for me to do for myself cuz it was holding me back from my full potential!