Did you cheat in school?
 

A study by The Center for Academic Integrity found that almost 80% of college students admit to cheating at least once.
According to a survey by the Psychological Record 36% of undergraduates have admitted to plagiarizing written material.

A poll conducted by US News and World Reports found that 90% of students believe that cheaters are either never caught or have never been appropriately disciplined.

The State of Americans: This Generation and the Next (Free Press, July 1996) states that 58.3% of high school students let someone else copy their work in 1969, and 97.5% did so in 1989.

A study conducted by Ronald M. Aaron and Robert T. Georgia: Administrator Perceptions of Student Academic Dishonesty in Collegiate Institutions found that 257 chief student affairs officers across the country believe that colleges and universities have not addressed the cheating problem adequately.

According to the Gallup Organization (October 6-9, 2000), the top two problems facing the country today are: 1) Education and 2) Decline in Ethics (both were ranked over crime, poverty, drugs, taxes, guns, environment, and racism, to name a few).

A national survey published in Education Week found that 54% of students admitted to plagiarizing from the internet; 74% of students admitted that at least once during the past school year they had engaged in "serious" cheating; and 47% of students believe their teachers sometimes


Source: http://www.plagiarism.org/plagiarism_stats.html

I did once on a math test. I've never knowingly plagiarized though.

I never cheated in college and look where it didn't get me.

Duh, who doesn't cheat?

cheating is not good just study hard.

I never went to school

I dint gits no edumacations 2 cheet

Surprisingly, especially since I do not read books, I never cheated throughout school, even in high school. I used to retain about 90% of what I heard so passing through the school system was a breeze. In college though it was way harder to do without reading a book so I was forced to start cheating. :thumbsup

I was gonna say no, but then I realized that I wrote practically every paper, report, and even senior term paper for one of my two best friends in high school. Sometimes the other friend would help me, too.

If we didn't, she'd just take a zero on it, fail, and then go to summer school, which was easier but fucked up our time at the beach, lol.

In my experience there was never enough time in a day to read all the stuff they told me to read while I was full time university student. It was insanity. I just read as much as I could.

Holly, how do people write essays by simply breezing thru source material? I recall watching a documentary about students who write papers for other students and it's on topics they're not even familiar with. They just sort of speed read through some of the material and subject matter required for the paper and somehow come up with a cohesive well written paper. The student paying for to have the paper written for them earns a B grade or higher.

I can't remember cheating, but I'm sure I did at least once.

I do remember cheating for friends, including making fake report cards and doing at least one term paper for someone else.

Papers are easy. Just paraphrase the shit you read and insert some relevant quotes and you're good to go. I'm confident I could write a paper on lesbian women studies and get a solid B+ even though I'm a straight male. Or I just dig on lesbians. Who knows. *shrug*

lol, I should have at least tried writing a paper that way. I just took everything very seriously. Hours upon hours of anguish, blood, and sweat went into every essay I had to write. And unless I felt I had familiarized myself with the subject enough, I really had no idea whether the paper was a winner or not.

It'd probably be different now. I've read more and I write more often. I know I write better now than before.

I look at cheating the same way I look at rebellion of any kind.

History is written by the winners. They're the patriots and the losers are the treasonous rebels.

It ain't cheating if you don't get caught.

Just stude your lesson don't cheat

To be honest, the papers I had to write myself were mostly for English classes, so I had to actually have read the book and try to make up some insight into it as well as inserting relevant quotes (crap, as described in the following paragraph). The term paper I did for another person was on some political stuff, so it was mostly fact based, which made it easier; nothing to really make up or interpret.

On a side note, I think a lot of critical reviews of authors, however famous they are, are crap. The fact that one of the first reviews of [insert famous writer / artist]'s [insert work of art] by [some flunky who couldn't write their own stuff] gained some recognition by a bunch of other followers and then became literary / artistic "fact" in regard to what the work represents and "means" just shows how little most people think on their own. -- Hell, look at this board... it's a microcosm of people who can't think on their own. :)

I guess it's just one of those things. My neighbor in college used to pay me to write papers for him and he was in Aviation Management, which I knew nothing about. If you write and you enjoy it, then I suppose it comes naturally.

I had a major that fell under the college of science and math, but I definitely wasn't a math wiz. My bf was an applied math major and I would come home struggling with something in calculus, physics, or trig and he'd say, "oh, that's easy" and just sit down and do it. I guess it just depends on which way your brain is wired.

Seeing how little work my kids had to do at school here, you may be right. But that is probably a major reason why the US education system compares so badly against those of other countries.

My better half did a radiology course at the local community college and that was an even bigger joke: students who couldn't be bothered to learn the material just missed class when tests were due and got to take them later. Fine, except that they got to do them unsupervised in the library, so of course they all cheated.

The college went further than that to discourage effort. If too many students failed a test, they took the same test again next day: but only the students who failed the first time. Surprise, surprise, many of them ended up with higher scores than the ones who had passed the first time around.

went to college for a month. no, i didnt cheat.

Nope, was always too afraid of getting caught lol

my freshman year of high school I was in algebra 1a (thats where they put the slackers I guess), I literally just wrote random answers on all of my assignments, and my teacher never ever checked.. he just kept giving me A's.

The guys who sat around me thought I was some kind of genius getting my assignments done in less than a minute, it was pretty funny.

Until next year anyways, since I didnt learn anything new about math that year... if anyone who let me copy off them is reading this.. thanks for helping me graduate :)

i did. i wrote the notes in the teachers' journal. 4 and 5.

I think we all did

I cheated through the first 2 years of school...

yeah, sometimes....but not always :)

you was so small and you cheated? i was afraid of everything the first year in school!:upsidedow

I cheated all the time in 1st - 6th grade... Then I did the work as I should have from then on...

Once.... I had an older friend that gave me his english research (about 80 pages). It was a fucking big work... he had the teacher like 4 years earlier.

So I just had to copy it on the computer, made a nice presentation. For the exact same work (except with better presentation), he had 83 % and I had like 95 %... lol.

Same work same teacher.

we always took works in computer. That was normal - never wrote by ourself.

i mean internet :)

I cheated once on a spelling test. My method was soild and of course I passed the test. However I felt I couldn't get away with it again so I never did again.

I guess the karma side of things would be I can't spell worth a shit :)

Na... on hindsight, sure was naive in comparison to schoolchildren today..

One day there'll be a ban on those who consistently score high on test scores. Punishments out the ass, mark my words.

By my interpretation of the former definition, parents whose offspring are intellectually superior to others should be fined and their children imprisoned and punished.

The day will come...
The day will come...when the sheep rule the earth and inbreeders will take over the internet.
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All I have to say to that is: DNA test your next fuck, or it might be a family member.

[wtf did I just post ?]

I have a few times.. But I regret it now

I didn't cheat but my study buddy, Ty, and I used to inhale Vasopresin and take gingko biloba pills to enhance memory, comprehension, and analytical skills 2 to 3 days before a major exam. I don't know if it works across the board but during the times we did that "intellectual doping" we both scored As. We didn't study at all except for a 3 or so day cramming session.