Do the students in the Top 10 cheat?

Ctesiphon
Sat, 13 Sep 2014 18:27:02 +0000

All cheating inherently affects everyone.

If your teacher curves a test, and the cheater earns a high score, your test score will be lower as a result.
If they are cheating for good grades and taking up space in the top 10-15 of your class, you are being pushed down as a result.
Cheaters give teachers bad information on what they are teaching well or not. Perhaps many kids cheat on any given test but possibly they did not really understand the material. The teacher would get the impression from the good test scores that he taught the material effectively. By allowing cheaters to continue what they are doing, teachers gain incorrect information on what they are teaching well or not and cannot make necessary changes for future years.

However, do not base these accusations on a rumor. Unless you have direct confirmation and substantial evidence that such cheating has been occurring, keep it to yourself. Honest students like you do not deserve to be “ranked” lower than dishonest kids that do not study hard and work hard to earn their grades. Unfortunately, if you don’t have the evidence, not much can be done. It would be hard to try to accuse the “smartest” kids in your class of dishonesty and lying without evidence!

However, based on context of your post, do you believe most of the cheating is going on in the class graduating before you? If so, I don’t believe that would directly affect you.

Good luck.