CHEATING ON THE EXAM

Many college and high school students sometimes tend to cheat on the exam in order to get high grades. They often use minimized materials, look at their friend's papers, or buy essays off the internet. This may lead to good result at the end of the courses. However cheating on the exam is not good for students.

First, cheating on the exam is bad because it will make students become lazier. They never prepare the lessons before going to school or do their homework. When the exam is coming they just tend to cheat to get good marks. That they get good marks by cheating is so unfair to the students who have to study hard day by day to get better result. In addition, they always play truant, join useless activities, and do not pay attention to their studying because they think that they also get good mark although they do not go to class. Also, they depend too much on books and materials. As a result, they do not use thinking power, so they soon become more passive and lazier.

Cheating on the exam is also harmful because it causes a bad influence on their virtue. When taking the exam, students are expected to do the test by themselves. However, they are not honest because they cheat on the exam by using minimized materials or copy their friend's paper. After the exam they get high grades and receive a good degree when they graduate from school. However this degree has no value because they get it by cheating. I still remember one of my friends used to cheat on exam to prove that he is the best student. When he was caught, he has a bad reputation. His teachers, his friends do not trust him any more and his parents were very disappointed about his wrong action.

Despite these bad effects of cheating on the exam, some students argue that they are too busy to concentrate on studying and they have no choice but to cheat on the exam so that they can pass. It is true that now students are very busy. Besides having a heavy schedule with a lot of difficult subjects, they have to do part time job to pay for the school fee, the rent, and to buy expensive study equipments so that they do not have enough time to study. However cheating on the exam is not a solution. Instead, they have to learn how to manage their time effectively. Moreover, some students also worry that they will fail on the exam. They can study in group to improve their knowledge or go to center for help. Otherwise, once they are discovered when they ear cheating on the exam, they will receive a F on that subject and the serious consequence is that they can be expelled. Cheating is not beneficial for students.

Cheating on the exam causes a lot of serious problems. It can not only damage the awareness of studying of student but also harm to their virtue. Teachers should punish strictly to the students who cheat on the exam so that we can stop cheating and create a good educational system.