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Originally posted by Rudey
You can study and study and know everything, and still fail. You can say it's unfair and whatnot, but you still failed. But instead of failing and learning from that, you're failing and not taking responsibility if you say it's not fair and that it's someone else's fault.
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Forgive me for asking, but did you and I read the same post? I couldn't find anywhere in t*p's two posts that said she thought this was unfair. She stated what happened and what she learned, and was asking for people's advice. She's already going to be talking to the professor about her personal performance on the exam, which is a *separate* issue from the cheating that took place on the exam.
While in most cases a number of cheaters may not destroy a curve, it depends on the number of students in a classroom total and how many of them were cheating. As I said in my first post, at *my* university, 8 people in a class cheating would be about half the entire class....which therefore would DEFINITELY destroy a curve.
Maybe I'm naive, but the cheaters need to be reported. In the work force, what would happen if they had stolen an idea from another person and passed it off as their own, and it was later determined that it was someone else's idea? People really don't get ahead in life by taking shortcuts....eventually, we all wind up in the same place, and if you push ahead to the front of the line, you may get there just a fraction of time earlier than the rest of us
