How many times have you cheated on an undergrad science exam?

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How many science exams have you cheated on?

  • Zero, I do not cheat.

    Votes: 215 84.6%

  • 1

    Votes: 5 2.0%

  • 2

    Votes: 3 1.2%

  • 3-5

    Votes: 7 2.8%

  • 6-10

    Votes: 5 2.0%

  • so many I've lost count

    Votes: 12 4.7%

  • I would cheat, but instructors/proctors have made it impossible to cheat on many/all of my exams.

    Votes: 7 2.8%
  • Total voters
    254
ZedsDed said:
On an anonymous Internet forum?
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Yes, you would be surprised. And like I said previously, a lot of pre-meds on here and even medical students act as if they are being constantly evaluated. Remember, SDN is a forum. Sometimes it's fun to just be honest and have a little fun discussing these things. It's such a far cry from the real world that it can be painful at times to read through.
 
Godspeedyou said:
>has a psychology quote in signature
>unaware of social desirability bias

Lol
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No meme to go along with your condescension? I have seen data showing that people are much more brutally honest on the Internet, precisely because of anonymity.
 
ZedsDed said:
No meme to go along with your condescension? I have seen data showing that people are much more brutally honest on the Internet, precisely because of anonymity.
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That's honestly surprising. Interestingly, the people that are actually honest are called out as trolls. Some of the most outspoken members are now banned, but they represented the majority of fellow students in my class and other pre-meds I know from other schools in real life.
 
Planes2Doc said:
That's honestly surprising. Interestingly, the people that are actually honest are called out as trolls. Some of the most outspoken members are now banned, but they represented the majority of fellow students in my class and other pre-meds I know from other schools in real life.
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Yeah, I hear you. I can't link studies with my phone, but I'm sure you can find them if you spend some loving time with google scholar.
 
Planes2Doc said:
That's honestly surprising. Interestingly, the people that are actually honest are called out as trolls. Some of the most outspoken members are now banned, but they represented the majority of fellow students in my class and other pre-meds I know from other schools in real life.
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Well, not all of them are banned 🙂

*currently hanging by a thread*
 
ZedsDed said:
No meme to go along with your condescension? I have seen data showing that people are much more brutally honest on the Internet, precisely because of anonymity.
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We are dealing with pseudonymity here. SDN users have an online reputation to maintain. They gain social status by being 'better' pre-meds. If you have ever ventured to other websites on the internet, it's fairly obvious that people inflate characteristics. It's a chance for us to escape from the mundanity of real life
 
Never. If I didn't study or didn't know the material, a 50% is better than an IA, 0%, or something ending up on your record. That is why every time I see a thread pop up here 'I got caught cheating on an exam' I shake my head and wish those *****s could automatically be banned from even applying...
If you can't do well on a test, be a man and just take it. Don't try to cheat, because cheaters always get caught...
 
Planes2Doc said:
That's honestly surprising. Interestingly, the people that are actually honest are called out as trolls. Some of the most outspoken members are now banned, but they represented the majority of fellow students in my class and other pre-meds I know from other schools in real life.
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Honest and Kind are not mutually exclusive. It's perfectly acceptable to point out the idiocy of an opinion but not acceptable to call the opiner an idiot. Subtle difference, but something Southerners have perfected :angelic:
 
DokterMom said:
Honest and Kind are not mutually exclusive. It's perfectly acceptable to point out the idiocy of an opinion but not acceptable to call the opiner an idiot. Subtle difference, but something Southerners have perfected :angelic:
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... not all of us.

Sometimes I can't help it. :-(
 
Cheating and lying are two of the most shameful things a person can do. There is no reason to cheat unless you didn't study the test material, in which case you shouldn't even be in undergrad/medical school, seeing how that is the whole gist of it.
 
Godspeedyou said:
We are dealing with pseudonymity here. SDN users have an online reputation to maintain. They gain social status by being 'better' pre-meds. If you have ever ventured to other websites on the internet, it's fairly obvious that people inflate characteristics. It's a chance for us to escape from the mundanity of real life
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New theory : social desirability maintenance of e-peen.
 
I'm surprised that so many people have mentioned cheating on homework here. 😕 I only had two classes (calculus I and stats) in my whole undergrad career where homework was actually collected and counted towards the final grade. All of the science classes just assigned problem sets and then provided the answers so that we could work through them for practice, but it was never mandatory or graded.
 
StudyLater said:
They paid the price for being unethical swindlers. Now they shall be condemned to academic purgatory.

And cheating is wrong which justifies their removal from the system.
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He's the hero no one really needs or wants. He's just kinda there
 
Never cheated. Never will. Even during online classes where you have non-proctored tests and I'm alone in my room with no one to monitor me, I still strictly never cheat.

Mostly because cheating is bull****, and second because I want to know I earned the A.
 
Jesus. I don't tolerate cheaters (I teach ochem). You get written up. Why? So that the consequences this time hurt enough for you not to pull the same crap later on (where you might lose your license etc).
 
efle said:
@md-2020 does your school have a ban on cellphones or search students before entering tests or require all professors to forbid restroom trips? Do people with ties to frats/sports teams/other groups not get access to prior years' exams that are unavailable to the typical student? Are there no assignments to be completed at home which could be readily plagiarized or ghostwritten? Are there no problems sets intended for individuals which people trade their answers and scores on (eg I answered b,b,c,d,a and got 4/5)? Are there no assigned problems/homework from textbooks, such that torrenting the teacher's edition with full solutions provides an advantage? Etc, etc.

I have certainly had classes that were very cheat-resistant, but being unethical/dishonest can give you a solid advantage in many classes, especially if you have friends/students from prior years to help you.
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A very good post. Unfortunately some of this is true. At my UG people with ties to frats and sports teams or people that knew these people had access to prior years exams, but I always tell the following story about this:

Genetics class during my sophmore year of college. A lot of these genetics students had old tests that they abused as the teacher never changed the tests. So they would just memorize answers to the exams. Well that year the professor decided to change the final exam and make it 50 percent of our grade.

Half the class failed! Later he sent out an email to the entire 500 student class with a giant middle finger saying something to the effect of "this is what happens when you cheat".
 
Monster_Cat said:
It's more me than SDN. I really struggled in school before college, and was just happy to learn. The good grades came with really learning and getting the material, but I was happy no matter what grade I got.
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You can't afford to do this in medical school, just so you know...
 
Nice try, admissions committee member

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This video was....We dont usually see stuff like this. Kinda awesome. Ignore the asian taking a russian medical exam. Very cute though.
 
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