It’s five minutes to the exam and you’re in a state of panic. What are you going to do to pass it if you didn’t open the book the night before? Should you ignore and fail it or should you go for it?
Many students find that cheating is wrong, but at least once, they did it in their high school.
If you want to cheat you should know the pros and cons of your action.
Of course if you copy the work of others —either you do it plagiarizing material from books or the Internet or copying the homework of another student— you had not to work very hard for a passing or even good grade, and you may become popular in your class. But you will lose the trust of your friend that believed that you were honest.
So, worth it?
If you are caught while you are cheating on a test or are copying someone else's material for homework can result in a lowered grade and even expulsion from school.
If you are lucky and you don't get caught, there is still the problem that you haven't learned the material. That ignorance may come to haunt you down the road, when you are required to apply what you've learned.
In either case, there is also the consciousness that will say to you that you didn't deserve the grade you received and that you are a cheater. Such a person may go far in life, but he or she will never be a champion.
For sure students know it, but why they keep on doing that? Are they too lazy to study? Do they have the fear of your parents anger? Experts say that one of the reason is seeing their friends get away with it. Again, research says that if the subject doesn’t matter in their future career, it’s okay to cheat.
Furthermore, maybe students do it to put up with the pressure of getting to the university.
In conclusion they would do anything to get a better mark.
Now it’s easier to cheat: there are mobile phones and they can send the answer of the test to each other; there is also internet that with its websites has lots of materials and there are so many tips to get away with a test. It doesn’t matter to get caught.
But you should know that cheating is a lie and even if you get away with your teachers and your parents you’re fooling yourself. You shouldn’t be proud of doing something that you can’t really do.
Realize that you have the potential to get good grades without cheating and be proud of what YOU can do.
Do you still want to cheat after reading this?
