I wrote my 3rd final today and the way it works is that students are seated beside others writing different exams for different classes/faculties you get the idea. We aren't allowed cell phones etc. So I'm writing and writing and the guy beside me has his blackberry out. Oh My God. Is this really happening? He's cheating! I'm basically shaking in my seat now because I don't know what to do. Should I leave it? let him cheat and think it's none of my business. Or should I tell the examiner?
I decide I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt, I mean maybe he forgot to turn off his phone and that he had it on him. Maybe.. Well he didn't he kept taking it out and checking stuff on his phone. Now I was torn in 2.
Is it fair that we pay over $5000.00 to go to school and work hard to try and earn some marks and people like him get away with cheating?
But if I tell on him he's probably going to go on acedemic probabtion. I read more into my exam, and thought "hey if he does it again then I'll tell"
In the back of my head I could here my sister's voice screaming about human rights and equality as ridiculous as that sounds. By not telling on him was I promoting cheating? Was this something I was OK with?
Nope it wasn't so on my way out I told the examiner what had happened. I feel like a rat, but then at the same time, the rest of the students worked hard for this, it's not fair to cheat. If I hadn't put a stop to it I would silently be promoting it. I feel bad because I'm sure whoever he was he was probably a nice person, but that does not give them a right to cheat, and have an advantage over all of us who spent so much time studying right?
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