Runningtart2004 wrote:
Question to all:
Let's say you're a decent student consistenly scoring less than others you strongly suspect are cheating. Let's then say a representative from your college comes up to you and says "If you see the test in advance, which we can arrange, you'll get top marks". "You won't get caught, everyone is on it (he then shows you stone cold proof), we have personnel who can keep it under wraps to make sure you don't get caught"
What would you do? Would you take it? Go from scoring mediocre marks to the top 1%...go from just an OK student to a genius.
If you are shown proof that most of your colleagues are cheating what would you do?
Another lame rationalization Alan?
Curiously, I was confronted with a similar situation in college. Nearly all of my social peers were cheating, and most definatley not getting caught. Classes were so large that it was very easy to hire ringers to take tests. It was all about $$$, you could buy a perfect series of homework assignments, term papers etc.
I could have easily afforded to play along, I chose not to. In the end my University stint was less about ambition than it was knowledge.
Thats what I did.