Cheating Worksheet Essay

In a survey of 24,000 students at 70 high schools, Donald McCabe (Rutgers University) found that 64 percent of students admitted to cheating on a test, 58 percent admitted to plagiarism and 95 percent said they participated in some form of cheating, whether it was on a test, plagiarism or copying homework. I personally think that cheating is a stupid idea. Building good srudy habits is the best thing you can do right now. We all know how great it feels to have just done good on a test after studying hard. You don’t even feel that rush of excitement after getting an A on a test that you cheated on. I do not think that it is okay to cheat on homework at all. Cheating on homework is just as bad as cheating on a test. When you cheat on homework it will make the test a lot harder because you will not have the knowledge you need to take the test. I do not think it is okay to cheat on quizzes. When you take a quiz it is to let the teacher know how well you understand something. If you do bad on a quiz most teachers will teach the lesson again in more detail …show more content…
A couple weeks ago someone in class asked me, “Do you want me to show you where the answers to this worksheet are?” I knew I could get away with it by just changing the words and making them sound like my own, but i knew that would be the wrong things to do and even though I thought I could get away with it, I knew I would still have the effects of a guilty conscious. I think that people cheat because they are not confident in themselves and do not believe that they can succeed unless they cheat. There are many intelligent people that I know that cheated on the horror fiction test. I know that some of those people are very intelligent and have good study habits. I personally think that a lot of the people who cheated on that test most likely studied for the test, but were not confident enough in themselves to do good and resorted to