Have you cheated in you exams?

@vertex (803)
Philippines
January 21, 2007 10:50pm CST
Cheating is the most common sins that a student can do. Student tend to be tempted by this things. Lately we have our midterm exam for the second sem and I seemed to be tempted but i say to myself that i know that my answer are right. I have seen some students still cheats. Why do we have this characteristics as a human? What things could make us change?
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@casper20 (1463)
• India
22 Jan 07
i have to say that i have.when i was in school.for a class test.all of my friends too were doing it.it was actually exciting.i haven't cheatedin any exams afterwards.i have seen so many of my friends from college cheat.it is actually fun to watch them.
• Ireland
22 Jan 07
We never got the opportunity to cheat as all our exams were pretty well supervised. However, I aways studied very hard for exams and I doubt I would ever have cheated even given the oportunity. I preferred to pass my exams on my own merit. It is not worth it, as we would have to live with the guilt for the remainder of our lives.
@suju15 (184)
• India
22 Jan 07
I feel that primarily children cheat as they have little or no confidence in their abilities, to fare well in the exams.Probably they never open their books or just dream through their lives in general.A person prone to cheat should understand that, he may be able to fool his teacher or parents, but in the long run he himself becomes the biggest looser. So its his habit n attitude that has to change.That will automatically take care of this malpractise.
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@cashnono (1135)
• Hong Kong
27 Jan 07
Oh, I am not a student any more. but anyway I have dont that. yaha...
@Raj119 (225)
• United States
22 Jan 07
I used to cheat when I was in junior high school. It was only two or three times though. I felt so guilty afterwards. It was just that I wanted wonderful grades like everyone else. And on those three occasions, I felt, without cheating, I wouldn't get the grades I wanted and therefore would feel like a failure. Now that I reflect on it, I felt like I would have rather failed those exams than cheat on them. Eventually, I developed rigorous study habits and would never cheat again.
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• India
27 Jan 07
I can say little i've cheated.Being a merit student right from my childhood i've tried in cuontable number of times(3 or 4).Even when everybody around me is copying, i write the exam on my own.what about you???
@oxygenton (242)
• India
27 Jan 07
yeah ofcourse... its the bst way to get marks........ and by the way i dont agreetht its a sin.....
@shywolf (4514)
• United States
25 Jan 07
I don't remember ever cheating on an important test. I would have been far too scared of getting caught. I'm so shy and sensitive of a person that I can't bear confrontation, and just think of how awful I would have felt if i would have been called out for being caught cheating. Wow. I can't bear to think about that. Plus, I usually had fairly good grades and didn't feel the need to cheat. it's been a long time since I've taken a test, though.
• United States
27 Jan 07
I have done it a few times when i was young and suddenly i dont know for what reason i realized i should have never done this and will never ever do it and have not done it till now!
@darckj (885)
• Philippines
26 Jan 07
thank God we don't have exams anymore this sem! haha.. well, i can relate to the topic cause i myself have done this for the past few years.. come on, be honest! some honor roll students are doing this, in fear of having a low score! why do we have these things? because we do not want to have the lowest score, and since you cannot stop everybody from doing it, why not join them? but this one ill tell you: if ever that question appear again in exams, you'll surely know the answer this time.. because that is what you copied from your classmate the previous exam.. so, you learned..
• United States
22 Jan 07
I never understood why people cheated. It really makes no sense to me. The whole purpose of a test is to see what you know. Cheating defeats the purpose.
• India
27 Jan 07
One or two times............ Actually, I wrote some answers in exams by seeing in my friend's asnwer sheet who was sitting on next desk of me.