Have You Ever Cheated In An Examination?

Abuja, Nigeria
November 27, 2010 1:03am CST
Although is it is not easy to answer this type of a question in public. Especially in the presence of the people that know you better. This matter is so general to the extent that it seems to involve everybody. Some people say that it all depends on your definition of cheat. They believed that giraffe and little communication are allowed in any exams. Some even believed that nobody will be exonerated since it seen as help to pass a particular exam. However, some people can completely be classified as innocent because they don't simply talk or giraffe. Even they don't collect anything in form of help if given in any examination. So, what is your own definition? And have you ever cheated?
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26 responses
@calpro (930)
• India
28 Nov 10
Honestly, I have never cheated in examination. I am not saying just for the sake of saying. I was a very good student right from childhood and never had a need to cheat in the examination. Another reason is my mother always used to tell me never cheat in exams, If you are unable to answer just leave it but never to try to cheat. She used to say If you fail I don't mind, you will study well next time and you will pass and if you cheat and pass that will become your life style for the whole life in career and personal relationships. So I never cheated in exams. Thank you Calpro
• United States
27 Nov 10
I don't recall ever cheating on a test. I was going to one time but decided it wasn't the right thing to do. I was going to put some charts in my notes since the instructor allowed scratch paper and wasn't going to check them... but I decided I would rather fail on my own that have to cheat and be dishonest to succeed. And I think using anything is cheating!
@lingli_78 (12822)
• Australia
27 Nov 10
yes i have during my uni life... but not that often and i feel so scared while doing that... actually, it is not me who is cheating but my best friend at that time in uni who is always asking help from me everytime during exam time... and i kind of forced to help her by giving her the answers that she wanted... take care and have a nice day...
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• India
27 Nov 10
I have cheated in my exam, i would like to publi . Yeah I had done during my last year ba, i still remember it. I had copied in the i card and got escaped. Thanks to god who is always with me sh
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@sjlskl (3382)
• Singapore
27 Nov 10
Yes, I have cheated in an examination before. I have swap papers with a classmate. Unfortunately, another classmate spotted us doing that and reported our "crime" to the teacher. As a result, both of us failed that examination.
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• China
27 Nov 10
This is a really serious topic .Even though i hate cheating on exams ,i had cheated on several exams of college .But there were some reasons .During my college life ,all of my classmates had cheated on exams .According to our college's rule ,if i had failed some certain exams ,i would have not been able to get my certificate,which is very important for me .So ,with humuliation ,i did it too .To my mind ,if the faculty who are in charge of supervising exams had taken their responsibility ,the situation would have been totally different .
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@SimpleBB (1329)
• Philippines
27 Nov 10
I can't remember I did cheat in an examination. I'm not sure but I exerted so much effort the day before the exam in reviewing, so I never temp to do so. And probably that's the reason why I hate to see someone cheating, for I know there are people who did effort to be fair and why are some people contented in cheating? I remember some professors before saying that if they caught cheaters, they will got pointd deductions and for those people who tolerate the cheaters to take their answer will got double deduction. I got it as a perfect lesson, not only for cheaters but more of those answers providers.
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@shia88 (4571)
• Malaysia
27 Nov 10
Hi, Frankly speaking..I should say "YES". I ever did it before when I was in high school. Normally few days before the examination, I would start doing revision,but there are some part whereby need lot of memorize and I just could not remember it,so no choice, I wrote very tiny note on the ruler or piece of paper,just hope if this question come out in the examination paper,then I would be able to answer it. Actually, I was pretty scared to take out those "stuffs" during the examination,but for the sake of good mark, I have to do it and make sure the teacher won't noticed on what I was doing.
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• Indonesia
27 Nov 10
cheated is cheated !!!!!!! we can't legally cheated. I have try to cheated on an examination by resume all of my subject, and wrote it on small paper. But I not brave enough to open it when the examination begun. fortunately, because I resume it last night, I have some remembered answer on my head. I think just resume it before you got exam and don't cheated, and it works!!!!
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• Philippines
28 Nov 10
I remember my college days, I tried to cheat once but it wasn't successful that day because I didn't know how would I open the little paper that I put on the front of my blouse.Actually, it's my first time to cheat but I really don't know how would I do it so it ended up in to nothing. And after that exam I just laugh what unforgettable experienced I had.
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• Pakistan
28 Nov 10
Believe me, I didn't cheat in any exam by asking some question or taking some solved material with me but I cheated in a way that I helped my friend to solve his math question in my Matriculation exams. I think cheating has two different ways and both are negative.
@angel107 (307)
• Germany
28 Nov 10
Yes I had back in college and I was caught. I gave a classmate some answers during our political philosophy exam. According to my former teacher cheating means copying and giving the answer. Hence, I have cheated:-(
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@pokumon (644)
• United States
28 Nov 10
I don't know what you mean by giraffe, but to answer your question I cheated in 8th grade biology. I would ask the custodian to open the biology room after school because I forgot something there. Go to the teacher's book and copy the answers, share with my friends, we'd agree to mark one or two different answers wrong. I don't know why I cheated especially since I'm a biology major now. It was just so easy and I loved the thrill of it. In high school people would cheat off of me.
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• India
27 Nov 10
i used to do some little copying up till the 7th standard, like get the start of the answer then i used to remember the whole answer. then once wen i was answering the paper in the 7th standard, i dint know the answer to a particular question and when the bell rang to submit the paper, another student while giving his paper happened to show me the answer, i wrote down the answer and then suddenly it striked why am i copying. and surprisingly i had no reason because i knew i had written enough to get above 70 percent in the paper . and from that day i havent copied in any major exam that wouyld decide my career although in some tests in tuition classes i may have just to get through the pass mark. to all the examination cheaters out there one simple question 'why are you cheating". because by cheating you cheat yourself and deny a worthy person of his position
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@voldrox (7191)
• India
27 Nov 10
Any form of cheating is cheating. You can't fool yourself. Yes, i have cheated quite a few times, and i am not proud of it.
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• Philippines
28 Nov 10
Hello there! There are so many forms of cheating in the classroom. Some of them are as follow: 1. Asking your seatmate about the correct answer 2. Simply asking for hints. 3. Actually copying your seatmates answer. 4. Making a "tickler" of your exam content that contains possible answers. I could remember that it is very common in High School and we did it just like for fun. Cheating in the exam in general includes quizzes, minor and major exams. But I must say I have not brutally cheated for I prepare for my major exams seriously. There is no school or institution that allow students to have this wrong practice. All schools have their sanctions to reprimand students who cheat.
27 Nov 10
To be honest ,I did it ,when i was in college,i feel bad for that anyway ,have a nice day
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27 Nov 10
hello
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27 Nov 10
yes
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• India
20 Dec 10
when i am in school once i copied from my friend like diagrams and some answers