Consequences of College Student Cheating on Exams

Consequences of College Student Cheating on Exams

Introduction

Cheating in exams has become very common nowadays and students do not realize that they are playing with their career and their future. They should be aware of the fact that they are committing an act that is not permissible and is not in line with the code of conduct of the school. There are a lot of adverse impacts of cheating on the life of the students and this is the reason that the person who is studying is discouraged to cheat. While taking exams there are a lot of students who cheat in order to pass the course, but they do not realize the fact that this will have a negative impact on their future. this paper will talk about the unfair means that are undertaken by students for cheating in exams or for preparing their assignments, and will then discuss the different consequences of these unfair means.

Unfair Practices

There a number of unfair practices that can be used while writing an assignment and while taking exams. Students write their assignment from unfair means when they do not have a clear idea about the topic or when they are short of time (Anderman & Murdock, 2006). Whereas, there are certain students who do not like to work on their assignment themselves and copy it from others or from the Internet. Following are some unfair means of writing an assignment.

Plagiarism

This is one very common unfair practice that a number of students follow in their assignment or term papers. Plagiarism means copying as it is from the Internet, magazine or an article without quoting the author. Plagiarism is not allowed anywhere in the world and because of increase in plagiarized work, many universities have the plagiarism checker software through which ...