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Is cheating ever justifiable? Do the ends justify the means?
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Cheating is never right, whether it’s cheating on a test or cheating on your husband/wife. It is not the right thing to do in any society. For many kids in school cheating is how they get through most of there classes. They take a class too hard and end up cheating off there friends for most of the tests. In college if you get caught cheating you get kicked out immediately. Which I feel is harsh but definitely the right thing to do. College is taken very seriously so they won’t tolerate anyone cheating in their classes. Cheating in a relationship is looked as worse than cheating on a test. When you cheat on a test you are only hurting yourself but when you cheat on someone in a relationship you are hurting another person. Cheating in a relationship is usually unforgivable, which it should be. Cheating is wrong no matter how you look at it.
Cheating is never right. Especially cheating on your sats, that to me is just ridiculous. I cant even believe how they got away with it, it just proves how irresponsible the proctors are. But for a lot of kids, cheating is normal to them. I believe that most "smart" kids in my school are probably cheaters. They cheat any way they can just to get a good score on something. I believe thats incredibly wrong because its not fair to those who actually try and lets say not do their best compared to someone who cheated and get all the recongition and praise. I dont believe that the end result justifies the action because it may help you out now, but in the end when you actually have to do your job, youre going to be screwed because you wont know the material or what to do. Its like a to-be doctor cheating off someone else, you want that person taking care of you? He doesnt even know what hes doing because he cheated off someone the whole time. Its going to just harm everyone in the end. My advice to those kids who paid that guy to cheat is no, you dont deserve to go to the college you got into. Your parents obviously have a lot of money because you paid the guy 2 grand...so have them pay your way into college because you definitely dont deserve it over someone who actually tried their best. Cheating isnt even necessiary, just try your best and whatever happens happens. At least you can be honest with yourself, and hey those kids could have gotten a good score on their own, you never know unless you try.
Cheating is never a justifiable act. The fact that students have to hire someone to take the SAT for them obviously means that something is wrong. From the first moment of high school, everything you do is for college. Students today feel an immense amount of pressure to get into college from their parents and their schools. Schools push students to join clubs and take a lot of AP classes because it “looks good for college”. Parents often force their kids to take SAT classes and hire SAT tutors so their student can receive a high grade so they can get into college. For many students, they feel as though their score on the SAT is the only determining factor of whether or not they get into college. Obviously, the SAT is not the only factor that determines whether or not a college accepts a student.
In addition to the pressure that students feel, which would cause them to cheat on the SAT, another problem may be that the SAT is simply too hard for many students. The level at which students are expected to perform at has been on the rise since the beginnings of the education system. Students are expected to know more information and more difficult information than their ancestors or even their parents did. Due to the fact that students are expected to know more, the difficulty of the tests, such as the SAT, has increased making it very hard for an average or even an above average student to do well. Many studies have found that over the past couple of years, the average SAT scores have been decreasing, even though it is believed by many, that the school systems are improving their level of education.
The end result of cheating, does not justify the reason why a person would cheat. No matter what reason is that you cheated, whether it was to get into college or not, cheating is still very wrong. Even if cheating helps you at the moment, in the future, you are going to pay for it, such as the people involved in these SAT arrests.
Using such a smart kid to take a major test for you, is just flat our wrong. On both accounts, it is unethical. The college student who took money from his clients, is at fault just as much as the people paying him. Cheating is never the answer, especially in this situation. If these students had gotten away with it, they would have the guilt sitting in class at a school they did not deserve to be at. Maybe they took the spot of a deserving candidate who really worked hard to do well on his or her SAT. Good thing they did get caught and arrested due to the mere fairness factor of this whole situation. I know I would be extremely mad If I didn't get into a school because of people who cheated.
For many students, the SATs are the most stressful part of Junior and Senior Year. It can be daunting and expensive to study. But what if you can avoid all that stress and all those sleepless nights? What if you could actually pay something to take this test for you, in your place, and earn you top scores? 7 students were just arrested on Long Island for doing just this.
The students paid someone up to $2,500 to take the SAT in their place and received exceptional scores, getting them in to top-notch colleges. While cheating is a right, it is never acceptable especially in this situation. Imagine you didn’t get into the college of your choice because someone who cheating took your spot? Imagine all those nights you actually stayed up, studying, were all for nothing?
Having just taken the SATs this passed Saturday, I would have been, for lack of other words, pissed that some other kid was getting a better grade than me and didn’t study a wink. That I got up at 7am on a Saturday to take the ‘hardest and most important’ test of life and some other chump simply paid someone else to do it for them.
For many students, the SATs are the most stressful part of Junior and Senior Year. It can be daunting and expensive to study. But what if you can avoid all that stress and all those sleepless nights? What if you could actually pay something to take this test for you, in your place, and earn you top scores? 7 students were just arrested on Long Island for doing just this.
The students paid someone up to $2,500 to take the SAT in their place and received exceptional scores, getting them in to top-notch colleges. While cheating is a right, it is never acceptable especially in this situation. Imagine you didn’t get into the college of your choice because someone who cheating took your spot? Imagine all those nights you actually stayed up, studying, were all for nothing?
Having just taken the SATs this passed Saturday, I would have been, for lack of other words, pissed that some other kid was getting a better grade than me and didn’t study a wink. That I got up at 7am on a Saturday to take the ‘hardest and most important’ test of life and some other chump simply paid someone else to do it for them.
Cheating is never the right thing to do. Using this kid to take the SAT for you, is just flat our wrong. If someone where to take the SAT for you, and get a great score, then when you get to colleges, they may have high expectations for you. If someone got a 2000 for you, and you really weould get like a 1500, then it's going to get you in a better school, and the school is going to expect great things. This article is really stupid. I can kind of understand this kids standpoint, hes making money, and is smart. The people who got the test taken for them, are just really stupid for doing this.
Cheating is never right, but cheating is a very strong word to use. Cheating is not right when you are doing harm to someone else for cheating, such as cheating on a spouse or in a relationship or in a business; but helping one another out in an unjust society is different. We will never remember all the things we learned in math all the years of high school or the exact tests we took. The only people who will use this in life are the teachers themselves who teach the subject. I look up to this kid for being smart enough to make a good amount of money using his intelligence. However, he wasn’t smart enough to not get caught. The only reason society frowns upon this is because they didn't think of it first.
In today’s world, it’s not about survival of the fittest; it’s about survival of the smartest. Those who are smarter excel; they run our world around us. In a larger aspect in life, cheating on a little test in your 7th grade social studies will not haunt you to your death bed. For those who say it’s not right that someone might not get into college because someone cheated on their SATs are naive. This world is full of cheaters. Those goody students need to wake up and realize just because you got a 5 on an AP Bio test, doesn't mean the world will now be full of rainbows and butterflies.
What defines cheating? I mean, in today’s society, it's about getting what you want no matter what it takes. It may not be moral, but you'd be surprised how many people cheat and lie everyday. The person who is "good" and studied for the SAT might have lied to their parents or cheated on a boyfriend/girlfriend. Cheating IS bad, but if it's something really insignificant, then does it really matter?
That said, I actually do agree that it's unfair to the kids who really tried because the SAT has become such a big deal. That person who didn't actually get that high score shouldn't get into a school over someone who got a slightly lower, honest score. Also aside from that, the person who got into a college because of their "fake" score may be completely stupid and not even be able to keep up with the standards of the extremely difficult and highly advanced school. In the end it would be a stressful waste of time, money, and energy.
I think it is very hard to gauge how bad cheating is. Cheating on something small (which is not limited to a test) will not likely make a big impact on your life, but the definition of small varies from person to person, so it is very hard to draw the line on where it is a big deal if you cheat or not. I dont think it was right to cheat on a scale large enough that it would directly effect your ability to get into college, for the fact that coming off as smarter than you really are has alot of downsides. If you aren't as smart as the colleges general requirements, you are likely to do bad in college and hurt yourself while wasting your parents money. It is also important to realize how bad the consequences of cheating are. People are more prone to cheating if significant action won't be taken against you if you are caught, but i think for that same reason it was a very foolish thing to do for the kids involved in the SAT cheating scandal. It wouldn't surprise me if any of them, especially the one who took the tests, would constantly be denied by the colleges they applied to for just that reason.
What this kid did was completely wrong.Cheating is never ok, especially when it can affect the outcome of peoples entire lives. If the kids who paid him to take thier SAT's took the spot of someone else in a college they didn't deserve to be in then they drastically changed the live of the people who could have got in the school with out cheating. It seems like cheating has become a big problem in school today as many kids are cheating more and more. It is very annoying to see someone who cheated on a test do better than others who took a test justifiably. So, cheating is definetly not right and the ends here did not justify the means.
I feel that the kids who hired the kid to take their SAT’s should 100% be held accountable for their actions. It’s actually really ridiculous of them to think that no one would notice that these amazing SAT scores and not so amazing GPA’s and they wouldn’t get caught. The fact that if they were to get away with it and take away the opportunity for someone who actually fairly tried to get into a university is completely unfair and there is no excuse for their actions.
The kid who was hired to take the test should also be punished for help the kids cheat, but I feel like his punishment should be less extreme than the ones the other kids deserve. Maybe this kid really needed the money for like his sick grandmother or something and just viewed this as an easy way to make a lot of money quickly, you really don’t know his reasoning for deciding to help the cheaters. I don’t think he intentionally meant to take away opportunities from other people, but he definitely was selfish because he was only thinking of how he can benefit himself.
There are most certainly legitimate reasons for people to cheat. However, I feel that it should never be excused of justified because cheating is always wrong, no matter the excuse and there is always the option to not cheat over cheating.
This specific individual is a genius. It's hard enough to do well on the SAT's, doing well 25 times is even harder, and doing well 25 times pretending to be differently people would be seemingly impossible. Even though he got caught eventually, he got away with something that's never been done before.
Although admirable, this individuals actions are unjust and frowned upon in our society. For good reason. I recently took the SATs myself, and I know painfully all-too-well how much stress these tests cause. I worked incredibly hard to do well on the test if I am not able to go to a school because someone had higher SAT scores due to cheating, I would be incredibly angry.
It is not fair for people to slip through the cracks of a system that requires so much effort on everyone else's behalf.
This specific individual is a genius. It's hard enough to do well on the SAT's, doing well 25 times is even harder, and doing well 25 times pretending to be differently people would be seemingly impossible. Even though he got caught eventually, he got away with something that's never been done before.
Although admirable, this individuals actions are unjust and frowned upon in our society. For good reason. I recently took the SATs myself, and I know painfully all-too-well how much stress these tests cause. I worked incredibly hard to do well on the test if I am not able to go to a school because someone had higher SAT scores due to cheating, I would be incredibly angry.
It is not fair for people to slip through the cracks of a system that requires so much effort on everyone else's behalf.
Cheating will never be justified. No matter how petty the cheat is, it will give that person an unfair advantage and it leaves everyone else in the dust. In this case, the prosecutors had every right to charge him with a felony. Not only is he breaking the rules of a national organization, he illegally producing government documents (Fake IDs) and he is also impersonating and effectively bribing several students. Since this is the first time a case like this has happened, the ends must justify the means. Students need to know that getting into college is tough, and nothing can be biased. Tests like the SAT and the ACT place students on the same scale, making it fairer to apply to college. No student should cheat on these tests, and no student should have the college of their dreams stolen from them.
No matter the situation cheating can never be justified. I cannot believe the students at Great Neck High School almost got away with cheating on SATs. Many students put in the time and effort to earn the score that they received on the SATs. Essentially those who cheated, if the students got away with it, would have taken the spots of the other students, who earned their score when applying to college. I feel as if cheating has become more acceptable then it was years ago; today almost all students can admit to cheating on an assignment at some point in their academic career. I believe the students, although minors should receive harsher punishments to make an example that cheating is still, and will continue to be unacceptable.
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