Concequences of Students Cheating on Exams
Consequences of a college student cheating on exams The most common reason for cheating is to complete the course as soon as possible. In today’s world when you look at the word cheating you can find many definitions and meanings for it. Every person has a different definition for the word cheating. The word cheating to me means to copy someone else’s work as your own. Students can always find a way to cheat by using reference materials or getting the answer ahead of time in a close book test. Other students pay others to complete their homework. Cheating is a concern for all schools and teachers. Students always find a way to avoid the consequences of cheating, no matter how carefully schools work to prevent it. For some students cheating is an easy way to get good grades. However, many students think that their individual dishonesty will not affect anyone else. One effect of student cheating is that the student is not learning anything. Some students get into the habit of cheating, they don’t study and in the long term cheating affects the student’s career development. When the student decides to cheat he may or may not know the material. What the student fails to realize is that the material that the course is offering is a requirement to use in everyday life. Whatever the student does not learn in the course because of cheating will affect them to get a job with a good pay, because of the fact that the student never learned the material of the course. When a student takes an exam the results of this exam supposed to show the level of knowledge that the student has on the material that the course offers. In fact, there is no employer that would keep a person that has no knowledge for the job they applied for. Another effect is that the student pays somebody else to do the work and take the credit for it as their own without realizing the effects this behavior creates. This kind of student thinks that they don’t have to do anything to pass the class as