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Running head: University students caught stealing exam should be expelled

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University students caught stealing exam should be expelled

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University students caught stealing exam should be expelled

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Exam cheating has continuously become prevalent and easier to do every year. This is because there are numerous sites where there is a possibility of a student to purchase an original paper and thus many students just purchase an original paper instead of doing their own work because it is so tempting when there is a paper already done on the same topic and yet you have to struggle faithfully to get the same answers. This has made the current generation be that of ‘point and click, copy and paste’ individuals and thus they really don’t know what it means by a research and how long it takes for comprehensive research to be complete. They just want gratification that is instant and thus they do turn in the paper without really doing the work. These students are very high risk takers because they are aware of the consequences of stealing an exam and they still do it. They do get surprised when they are caught and even go ahead to swear that they don’t know what was happening or they didn’t know it was wrong to cheat in an examination. This has made the students very lazy such that they don’t know any content about the school curriculum yet they have passed with smart grades. What they know is that they will still find ways of cheating in the next examination without being caught and thus they relax and engage in other non-academic activities. This has made the students who successfully cheat in an exam be half baked in the job market because they cannot figure out what is really required of them on the respective jobs.

There are many ways that students use to either steal or cheat in an examination. For instance, if it is a research paper, they do hire someone to do the research on their behalf and they pay the person. Therefore, when the student submits his/her research work, it looks original and meets exactly what the professor had instructed yet he/she has done nothing actually to attain those standards. Some even do it manually, they sneak into the professor’s office and copy the questions that are to be set in the exam on an external drive and snick out without being caught. In this way, they do it smarter because they have time to confirm all the answers of the questions before the examination day and the professor cannot realize this move. However, there are the others who have the courage and sneak into the exam room with scribbled materials which they think will be in the exam questions. Once they reach in the exam, they write faster those to-be-answers in the answer booklet and chew the scribbled paper so that they remain on the safe side and they cannot be caught because they will be simply confirming from their own booklets the answers to the questions set. There are the others who boldly use mobile phones to Google the answers right in the examination room. I bet this are the most bold and candid examination stealers because they do it while the professor is in the room and cannot realize this. They end up copying everything in the exam and get a high score even more than those who did the paper genuinely.

In any case, cheating in an exam ruins the life of the students because he develops that bad habit of being a thief or cheating constantly in every aspect of life including in marriage, in the workplace and even in the social gatherings. Take an instance a student who stole an exam and passed with high grades to be a doctor, then there comes the patient with severe illness or even a need for operation and he meets this fake doctor. The doctor will have no idea of how the patient needs to be treated and will commit many errors on the patient and even ultimately causing the death of the patient. This is because if it is an operation, he will just do it on rumors of what he used to hear about the procedures of operation in class and even the medication to be administered to the student will be irrelevant because this person does not qualify for that post but he just stole it. Eventually, the society will be full of disasters that can be avoided because the top positions in any organizations will be held by people who cheated in the exam. The roads will be unsafe, the drivers of trucks and vehicles will be fake and cause accidents continuously, the buildings will be constructed by fake engineers and they will keep on collapsing, eventually the society will be full of tragedies and catastrophes. The major cause of all these problems will be the exam theft in school that places some individuals on top performance list yet they do not really qualify to be on the list.

Therefore, if in any case students are caught stealing an examination, it will be a very big mistake if they go unpunished. In fact, the punishment should be so severe such that the rest of the students be discouraged from attempting in kind of examination irregularities. This is because exam irregularities ruins the student’s life even when he escapes being caught. There are some people who suggest that the best way is to give the student a zero and there should be no negotiations. This is a good approach because after all, he would have cheated and excelled highly and thus it will be a lesson to the student on the consequences of cheating because he will have to redo the unit again so that he does not just steal but get the content to answer the questions as required. This is much better than just letting the student go off yet you are pretty aware that he has been cheating in the examination. In fact, individuals or teachers who allow students to cheat on them deliberately are just as guilt as the students who do the real cheating. Therefore, teachers should take plagiarism very, very serious because in as much as leads to students getting underserved high grades for guilty parties, it is a terrible vice that ruins the life of the student himself. Therefore, teachers have to be keen on cheating students because they will eventually portray a bad picture about the teachers, since they will be awarded high grades yet they cannot perform and the blame will be shifted to the teachers for their incompetency.

Giving a cheating student zero works out perfectly. For instance, when the student has a plagiarized work, the teacher can take the original work and the students work and read it loud in class before the rest of the student while the guilt students stands in front. After that, the student will face a dire embarrassment before his/her colleagues and that shame will discourage other students from any attempt to examinational irregularities. This is especially applicable to research assignments and out-of-class assignments that the students are given but still add up to the final grades. The zero given eventually affects the final grade of the student and he either gets a very low and disgusting grade or he/she is coerced to repeat the unit in the next academic period. This is meant to make the life of such a student very difficult in school and serve as an example to any student who dares hand in work that was not originally done by the very student. In fact, the student should be monitored closely during the main exam so that he does not steal again to compensate for the zero given to him during the test.

References

Hoff, D. J. (2017). As stakes rise, definition of cheating blurs. Education Week, 19(41), 1.