Reasons as to why students cheat in their examinations

  

Date Posted: 3/22/2013 1:55:39 AM

Posted By: florewan  Membership Level: Silver  Total Points: 949

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Reasons as to why students cheat in their examinations

Nowadays many students are being caught in cases of dishonesty in their exams. We have also seen many of them having their results cancelled due to cheating on their exams. Some of the reasons as to why students cheat in their exams include:
i) Laziness. Most students like taking shortcuts to achieve their goals. They don’t want to do hard work and research just because they are lazy. This is why they end up copying and cheating in their exams.
ii) Some students may cheat on their exams because they may have not studied for the exam on time. Some students are very capable but when they don’t have enough time to study, maybe because of lack of school fees or sickness, they tend to copy their exams so that they can stay on the same level as their fellow students in terms of results.
iii) Sometimes the assignment given to students turns out to be difficult and most students end up cheating. This is because most of them don’t have an idea of what to write on such a difficult exam.
iv) Some students tend to have the idea of cheating and getting away with it in their head. They will decide not to study and instead use small written samples during the exam. They tend to think they are so smart to just copy and not get caught.
v) Some students like to gamble. You’ll find them placing bets on who is going to score the highest in an exam. They maybe a lot of money involved and since they don’t want to loose the money, they opt to cheat.
vi) Students who are always on top in terms of scoring highest grades, always feel like they have a dignity to maintain. So when they don’t have enough time to study or

if the exam becomes difficult they will do anything just to stay on top including cheating on the exam.
I think teachers should look into these issues and advice their students accordingly.

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