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Originally Posted by pinkies up
This is really stupid. People have interdependent study hall all the time. We had a test bank when I was in school. Don't colleges want to foster academic growth and socialization? In order for them to even do the work, they had to know some of the information. Please, people are out walking the streets for "crimes" bigger than this.
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Are you under the impression he was facing criminal charges?
A test bank of released tests is probably fair game; stealing test and using them would not be.
Colleges want to be able to assess what individual students know and are able to do and also to what proficiency. When students submit the work of others as their own, which is the problem here and elsewhere, it corrupts the entire system and probably, over time, devalues the worth of a degree since some folks (and I'd say more and more folks based on surveys over time) don't actually possess the skills employers are looking for.
Despite the junk people are spewing about "learning to learn" etc, in a lot of fields employers actually want to you to be able to do the work well relatively independently from the get go. If you needed a facebook group to do your math homework, what does that say?