Help! I've been falsely accused of cheating on an exam.

juillet
Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:16:47 +0000

The best thing you can do is follow the procedures outlined in your college’s student handbook for academic dishonesty. Go ahead and make that meeting you have scheduled with the dean, and explain what you have explained here. Although on its face it does look like cheating, as you’ve explained it doesn’t really make much sense. The best thing I could come up with is that you somehow managed to intercept another student’s test - one who is better than you - erase their name and write your own, but even the worst student would realize that the second exam would get them caught.