Cheating In School: Continued

As you may have noticed, last week's post has been given an updated title. The reason for this is that I felt like I didn't express enough of my personal feelings on the subject given the size of the post. So for this week, I will simply be adding on to the post, with enough content for a whole new post.

For those who are in my history class, you may not understand how stressful it was for me to find out at the last minute that there was a test today. I studied as long as I could at lunch and it still wasn't enough for me to understand the chapters the class learnt while I was gone at New York for 5 days. During the test, I honestly felt the urge to cheat. I hate to admit it but I had to stop myself from looking at other's pages during this stressful test. When I went to the bathroom, I wanted to go to my locker and look at more notes to try and make my way through the test. But you know what? I thought to myself that I should be honest to my teacher about how much information I retained from his teaching instead of him thinking that I'm a perfect student. I know it sounds kinda dumb but it's important.

Don't mind me, just looking around...

That's the thing with classes like history. Cheating happens alot more in those classes than others because the things that you learn in that class require full memory. It's not like science or math where you remember a certain formula and you can apply to pretty much anything. History has very specific people, and very specific events that need to be memorized and explained in order to succeed well. For that very reason, some people prefer history-type classes where they only need to remember certain things, whilst certain people prefer science and math classes where they remember formulas and apply them to anything.

Just to finish this post, I really don't condone cheating in any shape, way or form. Just study well and you won't have a problem succeeding in school. Cheating is a hard way of getting good grades, or an easy way of failing. In short, don't cheat.

Sources:
http://www.elllo.org/Assets/images/PMXRx460/MX146-460-Cheat.jpg

Cheating in School: Part 1

Being a high school student, tests are a pain in the butt. They can sometimes appear out of nowhere and honestly, no one likes them. That's why people often cheat on them. Personally, I don't like cheating on tests and exams but, according to a 2005 research study, around 70% of students admitted to cheating. I can honestly say that is probable, as students of my age often like to take the easy way out when it comes to working hard and achieving goals.

Of course, students of all ages have mastered several techniques over the years. Apparently, some of these techniques include writing on their thumbnails, printing fake labels on water bottles and even using glasses with cameras in them to feed to someone outside the test room in order for them to give you the answers through a headset. That last one is a little complicated so I could only see people doing that in the most extreme of situations, like a mid-term or final exam. All these techniques leave the question, if all these students have the time to create these innovative ways of cheating, why can't they pass their tests?

Pretty simple enough. I don't see why this student had to write this down...

Now in all my past attempts of cheating, it has never gone well. Most times I just simply got caught and had to either redo my test or fail it outright. By the way, I only cheated in grade school. With all my past experiences, I learned that it's probably better if I don't cheat in high school. Anyways, most of the time when I cheated I would just hide little notes with answers on them. Obviously, this isn't the most innovative cheating technique ever made but, it had a decent success rate. I would hide them in my books and take them out when I was really unsure of certain answers. I should've just studied.

Sources:
https://c.o0bg.com/rf/image_960w/Boston/2011-2020/2013/07/31/BostonGlobe.com/Ideas/Images/Cheat%201.jpg