Almost like creating a system that rewards earning the highest grade over actual learning will result in a culture that prioritizes the highest grade at any cost
@@jamesrosewell9081 Yeah, succeed by using every talented person that could have helped the improvement of humanity and instead forced to work for people that dont have worth
Yea... I cheated, but also tried to learn... Problem was i spent a lot of time maximising my grades via cheating, but wasn't as smart as i could be on my country's equivalent of SATs... In the end however the grades won me over
@@cellooxxi high school students get really creative when it comes to cheating. Shame this creativity cant be used for a good cause, like a class that encites creativity
Well yeah they're updating all the technology we use to do lessons but not updating the lessons themselves. Aka what actually matters, schools don't care anymore. The education system has been a joke for years.
@@somerandominternetuser5730 it's has been around since the ages when they needed to pump out factory workers and worker drones (around the industrial revolution) and it was to teach then the basics that they'll likely need there, sure, but it was also used to get them used to a tight schedule with 1 lunch break and scheduled bathroom breaks. And it hasn't changed much since then.
It's sad seeing brats on the internet cry over the education system but so many poor kids in other countries don't even have education. This is coming from a junior in high school
Just proves how we all think the scores are more important than the knowledge itself, it's not like the stuff we learn in school is very important either...
@@Lian_lian_04 the shit I learned in college even wasn't relevant to the job I got and I'm making 6 figures now. It was literally just hoops I had to jump through.
I call it, “being resourceful.” AKA, using google. Not everything has to be committed to memory. Especially if you have a condition that makes it harder for you.
I think it's important that we start looking into the 'why' question here... The school system is rotten and awful and not focused on students' well-being.
If the teachers tried to make their lessons even the little bit entertaining I wouldn’t have needed to cheat. They had to audacity to blame us when they didn’t let us take notes using devices as well as not give out any text book work. How can I focus on a person speaking in monotone for a hour with no clear structure: normally teachers follow a textbook and teach according to the structure .
@@Fizzy-ty7sg but that’s a issue that stems from society. The better the grade the higher chance of employment after university is the assumption because most of the ‘elites’ in each department are fought over for with high salaries.
I remember there was this kid in my class who was a straight A student, but he had a question, just this one time and then the teacher comes to him and is just like "Wow I didn't think I'd ever have to help you with this." I could hear in his voice that it made him upset. She really should have kept that to herself.
As a straight A student in the “gifted” program (which is bullshit by the way), I listen attentively to my classes, do the in class work and labs, but will never go out of my way to reading the textbook again when I’m back at home. When high school started, If there’s homework that’s marked, I search the answers online or just copy from the back of the book. If there’s a test, I study for about an hour the night before, and if I still don’t feel ready, fill in my missing spots with cheating. It’s just not worth investing the extra time into studying something you genuinely don’t care for and don’t see the applications of in real life. The motivation simply isn’t there. Get the grades, get out and pursue a career that you somewhat like in Uni pretty much. :/
@@vanim1102 education program made for kids that are more “advanced”. There’s a whole test and shit to get in. It’s no different from a regular academic curriculum, except the smartest kids in the grade are put in the same classes, which usually makes said class advance a lot faster.
@@vanim1102 yeah, basically "dumb kids" can do it too, I have a "dumb" friend and he's in it but he's struggling HARD AF! Got a C as Korean, big yikes! But I'm still sliding by with a B+.
As a straight A student and a former math olympiad participant i totally agree its not worth it anymore to me learning React in high school was 100 times better than wasting a second on Shakespeare
Even the argument “cheating only harms yourself” kinda falls flat. Sure, I might get lower test grades, but outside of school cheating won’t matter. You never use 95% the information you learn in school anyways, so cheating won’t harm you much.
@@connerwine8257 how in the world did you get "hacking" and "stealing" from a statement about cheating, they literally have 0 things in common, please elaborate, im extremely intrigued.
ehh it honestly depends on the class and your goals. if you wanna be a writer then yeah go ahead and cheat on your math test, but if you're planning on going into psychology and cheat in statistics...be prepared for a world of hurt
Well in the past cheating might be alot easier as there were no camera's so right it's just that they were not honest about admitting that they cheated
As a student who’s always done academically well, I cheated a shit ton in my first year of high school. It’s not only about the stress, it’s about taking advantage of the opportunity that I had. I know a lot of people will say that it’s unfair and will affect me, but like I said I’ve always done academically well. I understood all the content, but still felt the need to cheat to make sure everything was perfect. Besides, it helped with stress 🤷🏽♀️
I cheated alot this year, not bc i wanted to, i just had like 5 damn exam in one day, i cant revise this fast so yea, lowkey regrets but i did what i did
Maybe if my teachers didn’t give you a -25 point penalty for being a day late, people would take their time on assignments instead of cheating, googling the answers to finish on time.
Same like my school made me have 5 essays due in 3 to five days and i had to go to other classes help my sister get prepared for the baby because shes staying at our home for now so im already stressed with the arguments of them screaming
I used to have a middle school teacher who didn’t believe in grades, he never gave us our grades and instead only used a pass or fail system, for big assignments he would give us our grades but would never give our parents our grades. He ended up getting fired half way through the school year bc of this but I honestly believe that his way of teaching was very beneficial
Here's my short opinion on this: One of the many reasons students are cheating is the fact education isn't preparing students for life it's preparing them for tests. So now the objective isn't to study to have a good career, it's so that you get a good grade
Things the school system doesn’t do well: preserving student’s mental health, prepare students for the real world, keep education at least tolerable, teach students information they’re going to use at least once in their lives outside of school, prevent cheating, motivate students to work hard. Edit: There are a few trolls in the replies, a few idiots, and a few lucky people that have schools that actually do some of these well. Overall, schools don’t do these things very well, so stop trying to argue with that. And no, mental health was not invented by the government.
@@jetdonk3y No it does not. The modern education system doesn’t teach anything and is quite literally a memorization game. If a student didn’t understand something in middle school (For example; something in Algebra) and asks for help from their teacher, the teacher will just say “Look in the book” and not explain anything. This leads to kids not caring about what they don’t understand since they have to worry about the next thing coming up in the following week. The last test I took in middle and high school where literally memorization tests and a good portion of the questions I had no understanding and still got one of the highest grades in my class. Modern schools are a joke and need some heavy revision before kids even begin to give an ounce of a shit about it.
@@jetdonk3y dang school checks mental health? That's great to know how some students got so tired of school they started injuring teachers, other students which they also didn't check teachers' mental health as they were smacking students for no reason in my class injuring them enough to not want to come to school again
it's really sad that more kids are cheating today, but that's because everyone has made failure in school seem like such a bad thing. if you genuinely have tried, and fail, you are scolded. we cheat because, for some reason, the education system has forgotten that failure is learning.
Yeah and the amount of work they give is so Much and when it’s poorly explained most times I don’t have the time to actually sit and learn it 1v1 myself and then also Bc my brain takes longer to process, it’s super hard for me to get it done in time and takes hours for me to do one assignment, like I and others don’t have time for the amount of work they give.
@@MsRizz100 my math class the last two years 😅 we use this dumb website with poorly worded questions with extra curveballs added that we dont know well enough. The teachers dont help us well either
If they would make lessons fun we would be motivated enough to try even harder, they also should realize people learn at different rates and ways(I’m not saying break it down for each student) But they should at least take that into account
As a junior in highschool I definitely think it's closer to the 98%, especially since covid, the system really doesn't care about what you actually learn at this point it's about the grades
I mean, depends on what is considered cheating. For example, some Chemistry stuff, students had no idea how to do it even though they literally HAD THE FRICKING INTERNET available to them. If Google translate is cheating then oof. Or just google in general.
i did my freshman year completely virtual. you’d be an idiot not to cheat in online class, it’s laughably easy. i’m not sure why those classes even happened to begin with. i can’t think of a single assessment i didn’t cheat on that year like what did anyone get out of that
@@labadaba5088it's because chemistry is hard and we got only one lessons per week :) and we need to learn 200 pages book while having only 20/30 lessons of it. Like 3/4 page per fucking lesson, and also we can't learn new stuff on every fucking lessons (exams :)). How the fuck am I supposed to learn chemistry with that? This system really thinks we gonna learn everything at home and they gonna just rate us
The world is a game. Play to win. Cheating is part of the competition and it’s a risk. If you get to harvard from cheating, you’ll still have a better job than all your friends just from the name of the school.
and hopefully that will bring anyone who cheat smartly some good results basically were getting any help that we could get in order to get through life.
I definitely think there’s a lot of factors affecting why and that they’re all related to the failures of our education system. Students are performing better academically than in the past, and a college degree is expected in a lot of professions now, so there’s higher competition combined with higher pressure. Failure isn’t considered a part of learning in school, it’s viewed as a lack of trying/personal flaw. Students are praised more for “being smart” rather than being curious, intuitive, and having a good work ethic, and because of this they feel that their identity as a “smart” kid is threatened if they perform poorly. A lot of my peers who cheated were straight-A students.
When I was in elementary I consistently got 1st place from pre-school to 4th grade. Expectations from my parents and teachers were very high (even more so since my sister couldve been the valedictorian in the same school if it werent for a teachers favoritism) , and so when I failed to get 1st place in 5th grade my confidence and everything else fell down, I believed that I was a failure and that I was letting my parents,friends and teachers down, forcing me to cheat in hopes that I obtain valedictorian in the next grade. Of course I got overwhelmed and my grades and confidence kept going downhill from there.
exactly what I want to say, I don't have the best grades but I know for a damn fact I am very curious and have so many ideas. The second I ask "too many" questions the teachers seem pissed off when I am just trying to understand the topic properly. They think I am not paying attention..I am just a slow learner but once I do learn its over for them mfs
I'm a pretty gifted person academically in the sense that standardized testing comes naturally (I have good memory I guess) but now, in my senior year of high school. I've realized it's just easier to cheat. The only real consequences are "OH No, I don't really know how to solve a sentence long fucking math problem"
It happens to me too, until now I didn't cheat but things are going too far as mental health is concerned so I figure ways to cheat so I don't destroy my brain with studies, and some of my friends take a hole day to learn their lessons and still get pretty mediocre grades. That's because something is failing in the education system so it's so much easier to cheat even for a person like you and me who normally don't need to work hard to get good grades.
Exactly lol I also retain information very quickly Almost a straight A student I'm high school and my University exams But I just couldn't be bothered I just finished my 400L 1st semester exams and out of 7 courses. I only read for 1 course for 2+ days All the rest were the night prior to exams Mostly because I knew how unrewarding it was to read the whole note for 3 months and then see questions you weren't even taught Just cheat and giraffe to refresh your memory or rip off completely The only semester I was partially serious, I got a 4.6 But furck school
That's the deal, you need to cheat on the useless stuff, stuff you are planning to use in the future you need to learn for real, or else no one's gonna want you
@Stars Tea ugh I hate when teachers do that. I had a science teacher who never did anything except put a PowerPoint for us to take notes on, s PowerPoint she didn’t even make. She would just sit there and click the button every once in awhile to change the slide.
**clears throat** *If students that are doing well in school feel pressured to cheat, and students are happy that a literal deadly virus closed schools that their parents pay thousands for, schools should probably rethink some shit*
As a student that has always been one of the best in my class, I admit since quarantine started I have cheated like never before. Sometimes I feel really disappointed in myself but other times, it is so much pressure that i feel like i have to do it.
Here's the problem: In almost all subjects (but especially math so that will be my example), teachers will press into your brain that 2+2=4. But when it's time for the test, the questions are 1/16(-127x - 335) - 4^48 Then when you get the questions wrong, they don't tell you how you can fix it. They just take off points and expect you to know what you did. This can greatly affect your grade, which affects everything else you will do in life. It affects the next school you will go to, if you will even pass the school year, which collages will accept you, and thus what job you are able to get. One or two classes can be the difference in a student who gets minimum wage and a student who makes thousands. Teachers need to do a better job of explaining and teaching what the tests require.
@@supertheblueoctagon Don't take it for granted, make sure you take classes that focus around that and ask your parents for as much advice as possible
While I am not arguing that the number has gone up, I feel like there is something to be said for the fact that you are asking people at different times. Put it this way: if you, a hypothetical 20 year old with your first good job, are approached by a scientist asking you to answer the question "did you cheat I high-school?" with the promise of total anonymity, then you are probably going to admit that, yes, you did. However, if the same hypothetical 20 year old was asked the same question in 1940, they may have a very different answer. The consequences are so different. If your boss finds out now, you get a slap on the wrist. Back then, perhaps you would be fired. This is like saying that the rate of couples cheating on their SO's has gone up since 1940. Yes, it definitely has, but it's really difficult to gage how much because the consequences are so very different for the same action, that many people may have just lied back then to save their own skins.
I think the lessons have become harder and harder as well and we have 11 subjects every single day. I remember my mom looking at my notes and she was like *What? These lessons were taught like when we were in college.* I was in 7th grade at that time. Or maybe it's just our teachers lol
I’m in honors geo for freshman year of highschool and honestly, the lessons are kind of easy. It’s just the fact that my teacher sucks at teaching us. We just came from middle school, online quarantine school, and A/B schedule (we had A & B days to separate our 8 periods of school but not the point). It’s hard to get used to because everyone was so refreshed when having online school because everything was less stressful. And also, my teacher just gives us a slideshow for us to copy down on a lined piece of paper. The notes aren’t even actual notes because there’s no context other than random answers pasted onto some random piece of paper. It’s also the fact that we get a new lesson every single school day, we get no classwork on the previous lesson, which means we don’t really get any practice. The harder classes such as Algebra II honors ACTUALLY get classwork, and we don’t. We get homework for sure, but the homework doesn’t even correlate to what we learned NOR what is on the quiz. The questions on the homework is hard and confusing. I talked to a lot of my friends in honors geo and they say they’re failing. The subject isn’t even that hard either, my teacher just doesn’t give a fuck about how he’s making us learn. Nobody wants to speak up though.
I had really good grades in high school but my memorization skills are pretty bad. My history teacher used to quiz us on things like the names and locations of all the lakes in Puerto Rico. I’ll be the first to admit that after the first one of these ridiculous quizzes I just started cheating on them. Sat next to the valedictorian and copied her answers. Pretty sure my history teacher knew too and just never called me out on it cause I was a good student otherwise.
I had all A’s always until Highschool. I got my first B and it destroyed my self esteem. Unfortunately my parents placed my entire value in how “smart” I was and my mom of course was upset to see I got a B. I cheated every chance I got in Highschool even when I knew the answer. Before I got to college anything less than a 98% might as well have been an F. I feel bad for Highschool students now if the stakes have gotten higher. Because one girl in my grade level had a brain aneurysm, from stress.
my parents make it more stressful for me to be honest if they didn't get mad at me and take away my stuff when I got b's or even just one missing assignment then I would feel a little better
I got plenty of Fs in middle and high school but I was a straight As student in elementary school. I just started cheating enough to get the passing grade.
I went to an early college high school. They only accepted 100 students per year and the admissions process was hard. My class (c/o 2012) were the very first 9-12 graders at the school. We had to juggle high school and actual college classes at the same time. It wasn’t necessarily ‘hard’ but we were all expected to overachieve. We cheated and helped each other a lot! By the time my class graduated we only had 60 students. The others left because they couldn’t take the pressure. I remember in chemistry we finished the entire text book ahead of the district. Several of our teachers were more than just people who majored in a subject and decided to become a teacher. They were actual heavyweights in their fields. Some of them even helped write the textbooks. It was stressful sometimes but I appreciate my education. Especially when I see people learning not even a fraction of what I got to learn.
Used to cheat a lot too even tho I was already getting A's and B's everywhere after grade 10. I just liked having the answers if I ever forgot them in a test or the test was just about memorising.
Shit i don't cheat and my gpa is high but i still think cheating rn is understandable. Well the problem is that school doesn't seem to think that failure is part of learning. Why couldn't they allow multiple retakes of quizes? There are times where I just want to read books and understand the concept or equation, but the problem is that there are quizes of thet lessons that are due the next 3 days, so in the end, I only skim through the book, and ended up not grasping the whole concept, I still scored high but where tf is learning in that. I had this one friend who is really behind on concepts and stuff. We are already in college but he still has a hard time solving basic calculus and algebra. I asked him about this stuff, and apparently their high school didn't teach them shit. He was a good classmate, eager to learn, when I teach him. And the problematic thing is that the school doesn't seem to care abt these ppl. It was scary thinking about it in his shoes, how he must have felt left out. Yea so therefore school is shit, I would still encourage you to go to school, but it doesn't change the fact that school is shit.
I understand ur friend. When I had started high school last year, we were learning algebra. The problem is, my middle school never taught me ANY of that, leading to be being behind and the math teacher never pointed me in the direction to get help. Hopefully now I can learn as a 10th grader, and I've heard good things about my new math teacher. Best of luck to all of you.
That's so true. I never promoted cheating and I have never done it by myself and yet has scored pretty high scores. And I totally relate to you! I have experienced that shit when you just have to got through the damn book just to get good scores and despite knowing what you want to read and what you want to explore more, you are forced to "excel" in everything by school. Multiple retakes for quizzes SHOULD be a thing! Sometimes you are just not confident enough (or maybe you ended up scrolling deep through a sub topic you really enjoyed and forgot to read the rest thing, like me lol), retaking quizzes actually help me in building self confidence. Idk education system and schools are just shit. The only thing I like is that it makes you disciplined and keeps you in a routine. Other wise, it's meh.
I agree. Schools too focused on memorization. They don't really care about the actual learning experience of the students. We really need to change the System. It's still happening almost everywhere in almost every country on earth.
@@wedoliveinasocietydowenot I'm in the exact same situation, my old middle school was literally the worst teachers didn't care. and the exam was literally just testing memory 🙃 I'd ask the top student to explain something to me and he'd just state the same statement that is in the book. It also didn't help that the teachers were speaking a different language for most of the classes. Now in 10th grade, I'm lagging behind with math and physics just because they didn't help me with the basics. So now I have this incredible pressure on me to catch up and even surpass my classmates because of my parents' expectations. But oh well here I am. Good luck 👍
I'm kinda the same. I never cheated and still got high scores because my short term memory retention is pretty decent. Of course, after I'm done with answering the questions, I just forget all about it unless I really want to learn the concept. However, I will admit that ever since the start to online classes, I started cheating. I really can't help it. As much as I want to actually learn and answered honestly, I just have no time. For example, I have 28 units this semester, 9 subjects and 1 synchronous classes per subject every week. Meaning, we are only given an hour per week to be taught lessons. If they don't finished the discussion in an hour then we would have to learn it by ourselves then the next week, we will proceed with a new lesson. Now, I'm fine with self study. The thing though is the activities. There were at least 8 activities per subjects that is needed to be submitted every Saturday, midnight. And since, I am living with my parents, of course my day just now consist of me sitting in front of my laptop and doing school work. I still have to do chores. When exactly, do I have the time to study? Then there is the pressure to produce good results. To be honest, my mental health just went crashing down because of online classes.
Step 1.) Get bad eyes Step 2.) Get glasses Step 3.) Get two microfiber cloths to clean the glasses Step 4.) Right the answers on one and look at them during the test. If anyone asks pull out the one without writing
Not related to the subject of cheating, but this video reminded me of the time I was talking about state tests to my mom. She informed me that even a lot of teachers are on board with just doing away with them. The reason is that bright students may not perform well under pressure/time limit. Big state tests do more harm than good imo
I mean, if a student manages to cheat without being noticed by a strict teacher on watch. I would give that student a medal for discovering a way that, that school should prevent.
I never cheated in high school, but in college, I chose to cheat in unimportant subjects that I need to pass, but in subjects that I can really learn a lot from and I need to master, I never cheat.
I soo fuckin agree with this, I'm in 12th Grade and I dare not to cheat on subjects that I really need to learn from, that would be general biology and physics. I feel like other subjects are just time consuming, I tend to cheat on those subs to lessen the time and pass my tasks asap, though if I were to have enough spare time I'd give it full attention and learn.
@@glaucous3215 True. Sometimes the school system can be oppressive for making us learn things we don't need. It doesn't make you bad. You just need to do certain things to stay afloat and survive considering the time you have. Life isn't all about studying after all. You also need some time to play. Just make sure you aren't caught. Hahaha.
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At this point, you need good memory, which I don’t have, to pass school. One of my friends who has good memory tells me that he doesn’t study and gets good grades but I have to at least study for a long time to at least understand or remember something simple and I barely get good grades
Also my school punishes everyone, not just the cheaters themselves so even though I myself do not cheat, it’s very tempting to because I’m receiving the same treatment as cheaters. Like on a physics test some kids that had a different teacher cheated during the test, so the entire physics department just made every test after that much harder and over concepts they didn’t cover in class
The fact is now you have to get good grades in EVERYTHING, Back then a student could only study say physics if he was good at physics but now the system is so bad that the people who are better at languages are getting into sciences because they have insane social pressure
Some say its dumb but the fact that a lot of student actually cheated without getting caught is actually pretty smart on its own. I mean I gotta be honest with you I cheated a lot of times in my exams, and not a single teacher noticed it. This just show how bad the system is, its that bad the student resort in to cheating just to get a high grade.
I had a highschool teacher that encouraged us to use our creativity to cheat. He was very observative, and said that if you could pass through his watch, you deserved to cheat.
@@zeta1593 wow, i also had that kind of teacher too. He told us not to bombare our brains with information that we don't understand. Instead, just go cheat. Ever watch Bad Genius movie? Pretty much that's how we try to cheat
@@zeta1593 damn at least there are some teachers who know how wacky the education system is and lets their student cheat instead of letting their students' brain rot every exam
@@randooo22 yeah, but he was my french (my main langage) and philosophy teacher, so you can't really cheat at an essay (he let us to take it at home and even auto-correct) or at a text explanation
I cheated my way through 7 ap classes throughout high school . I would get information about the tests for all of the ap classes I had later in the day by trading the knowledge of the tests for ap classes that were earlier in the day for me. Also the teachers not changing the exams yearly and having upper classman friends who gave me their old exams helped too. On the ap tests I did fine, got 5s on all of them except for a 4 on ap chem.
In real life, you have to take advantage of the tools and resources at your disposal. If a teacher arbitrarily decides that's cheating, they're not doing their job which is supposed to be to prepare students for life in the real world. That's what my chemistry professor in college said when he explained to me why he wasn't gonna fail me for programming my calculator "illegally".
@@PerciseGunplay ndless. It's a custom software package for the ti n-spire. You can install a .pdf reader. I uploaded the chapters of my chem textbook that we covered, bookmarked the pages that were relevant and could ctrl + f for any eq's I needed but couldn't remember. He argued that since he allowed any calculator on the test and never specified anything about notes on the calculator, and since I only brought supplies I was allowed to bring, I wasn't breaking any rules he had established. He did change the syllabus the next term though. The rabbit-hole for programming ti n-spires is basically bottomless. I have the CAS version so I also set it up to turn CAS on and off depending on if it was legal for an exam or not. Or just to make it look like CAS was off. but most of the calculus I do at this point, even though it's easier with CAS, is almost more work to program into a calculator than to just run it on paper. Especially since I often need to do step-by-step proofs for assignments I turn in.
@@PerciseGunplayyou can store notes in programs and some apps like the periodic table app could help in tests. If your teacher makes you clear your calculator, you can archive the notes program so that clearing ram doesn't erase it
@@TheObamaGaming the thing is, most globally respected tests or certificates require the candidate to use specific calculators - like how tf am i meant to code a fucking snake game in a casio calculator built like a brick.
I think there’s a disconnect between what cheating is. I’ve used resources I wasn’t supposed to on homeworks or even some take home quiz grades/online assignments, but never gone out of my way to cheat during an exam. If someone asked me have I ever cheated in school, I’d say yes, but I’d say there’s a clear difference from someone who cheats instead of studying.
Having a cheat sheet or just using internet for exams should be allowed, knowing where to find the sources to know an answer is way more valuable than just memorizing a fact or a formula
This^ Knowing how to use our resources for information is much more reliable and sensible then trying to use our heads. No one is capable remembering everything (unless they have that one rare condition that makes it impossible for them to forget, but that's not very many people)
@@danielwang7472 ok but whats stopping us from just googling those things? even my mom has to google stuff that she knows already because people will eventually forget that stuff
It feels like their giving us even more than triple than what they would give us in face to face, It's like the school thinks since we use our computers more commonly now they think we can finish assignments just as fast as one
Hey man…like my middle coach said with a straight face.. “If you ain’t cheatin, you ain’t tryin boah. Bein a cheater in life proves you know what you want. It’s called workin around the system, and takin advantage of the opportunity.” And that is a real quote.. but personally I don’t cheat..THAT MUCH…but yeah.
I’m one of the smartest kids in my class, and I don’t cheat, but the pressure seriously is unbearable. When getting your results back, you can feel everyone expecting you to get one of/the best grade in the class. This means when I don’t pass or only just pass, I feel self conscious, I doubt my ability and I am severely ashamed. Next time you see a smart person, don’t just think of them as a brain. We have feelings too.
if homework and formative assessments count, then I definitely copied whole pages of computations and shared answers with the whole class. I never really did find a convenient way to cheat quizzes and exams where the testers watch you like a hawk, always felt like cheating here is not worth the risk of getting a 0.
Can Confirm I cheated throughout all of high school. Got into a decent college and bless them for not making the SAT mandatory. Made high school so much easier since I rarely studied. Fake it till you make it 😂
Bruhhh i graduated high school in 2019. It's safe to say that all of my classmates are liars. (Im in special edu class, meaning a class solely for high grade student) We were all aware that we snitch notes in the test room. However, no one is going to say anything. Why? Cuz the majority of the teachers at my school are still stuck in the past. You didn't pass the exam? Prepare to be embarrassed because they'll pick on you even if it's not their issue.
I actually cheated in this English language test once and it helped me understand how to answer the specific style of question that my teachers didn't really go through. When it came to the real test I went from a B to an A* without cheating. Yeh obviously cheating is bad but guess it helps sometimes lol.
I kinda started questioning the education system once I got older bc the stuff they were teaching and their methods were questionable. I hate how everyone is like "If you study hard and get A's you'll have a successful life!!!". This is going to be long, and these are only my thought but to anyone whos reading this: Good grades are inferior to passions, dreams, and that will to never stop learning (not school stuff in general). Many people who have changed the world (like Einstein) didn't do well at all in school. I'm not saying that school subjects are bad, but don't blindly believe that school will lead you to a successful life, you lead yourself to a successful life. I'm tried of seeing people cry and get devastated over the fact they don't get A's. Shouldn't we question the thing that we put our futures in? Also, this is coming from a B-A student, so this isn't just because I don't get good grades. As Einstein once said: "Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think." Good luck everyone! Remember that this is only my opinion and you shouldn't change your entire way of thinking. Just give it a thought for yourself :)
How are we supposed not to cheat when the teachers give us a radically different topic than what they taught us/told us that the test will contain. My Physics teacher told us that the exam will be about radioactivity. She gave us 10 lessons behind radioactivity, thus I studied for nothing.
This happens every single time! Its frustrating because you actually prepare for the test with the intention to pass and when they give you questions no where related to what they taught its just ://
Or when they give you a harder version of the topic that you probably didn’t went through in class. Example: you went through what’s 2/4 x 4/8 in class and during the tests it’ll be something like 3x + 4y/2x + 8x-5y/2x (I’m using an elementary example because I can’t think of a better one atm)
NO BC my ap chinese 4 teacher gave us THREE ASSESSMENTS in ONE week. i had to memorize how to recite an entire paragraph on monday, right?? oh no. i also had to take a test over 39 vocab words, grammar, reading/listening comprehension, and writing. and THEN had to memorize how to write the same paragraph from monday on friday. sure she gave us an entire week to do all three things, BUT I HAVE OTHER CLASSES. it’s so bogus
As someone who performed well in highschool, I never cheated but I was tempted to for the exact reason stated, I felt like I needed to do well becausei felt it was expected of me and that I would be lazy or not good enough or not actually trying if I didn't do well, I always got super anxious over tests
Cheating occurs when grades are valued more than actually learning the knowledge of the lesson.
Couldn't of said it better man
Damn nicely said
For sure
@@pennytrui1149 ط؛ :ش ٤
Truth 💯
Almost like creating a system that rewards earning the highest grade over actual learning will result in a culture that prioritizes the highest grade at any cost
Competition for the most part is good at incentivizing people to succeed.
@@jamesrosewell9081 Yeah, succeed by using every talented person that could have helped the improvement of humanity and instead forced to work for people that dont have worth
Almost like literally everyone cheats in high school but now more people are admitting it
Very true
Yea...
I cheated, but also tried to learn...
Problem was i spent a lot of time maximising my grades via cheating, but wasn't as smart as i could be on my country's equivalent of SATs...
In the end however the grades won me over
The whole "admit" part can have a huge effect on how correct this is.
Yea, the fact that like 75%+ ADMITTED to it means that basically everyone is cheating which is absolutely true
@@nicewords252 Wouldn't that the school's fault? Aren't they looking around when students are taking exams?
@@cellooxxi Yep. The education system has failed students
@@cellooxxi high school students get really creative when it comes to cheating. Shame this creativity cant be used for a good cause, like a class that encites creativity
@@cellooxxi teachers nowadays just work/teach to get money and not help students
Our class quote was “A class that cheats together passes together” class of 2018
There's always that one kid tho
@@shortballer2 that one kid that?
@@John-qd4lq betrays the class
The one kid who snitches on the entire class
"A class" feels like a double meaning and that is cool.
"Its better to cheat than to repeat"
-My friend
Cheating is part of understanding the assignment nowadays
Except for the fact that it does not make you understand the concept better. It just makes your life easier.
And u will regard it in future
@@lyrisio Even better
@@LK-em2ly sorry but I prefer to learn.
@@lyrisio Me to but I like learning useful things that I will actually need to know.
Well yeah they're updating all the technology we use to do lessons but not updating the lessons themselves. Aka what actually matters, schools don't care anymore. The education system has been a joke for years.
Correction: Has been a Joke for centuries*
True. It’s information is nigh useless sometimes. I am a 15 yearold and haven’t cheated once. I was shocked when he said 98%.
@@GigaChadCouncil the public education system hasn't been around for that long
@@somerandominternetuser5730 it's has been around since the ages when they needed to pump out factory workers and worker drones (around the industrial revolution) and it was to teach then the basics that they'll likely need there, sure, but it was also used to get them used to a tight schedule with 1 lunch break and scheduled bathroom breaks. And it hasn't changed much since then.
It's sad seeing brats on the internet cry over the education system but so many poor kids in other countries don't even have education. This is coming from a junior in high school
Just proves how we all think the scores are more important than the knowledge itself, it's not like the stuff we learn in school is very important either...
It's kinda important tho 😂
@@Lian_lian_04 90% is never used stfu
@@Lian_lian_04 it’s never important. Out of the 80% of the subjects you learn in high school, none will benefit you in life or in greater education.
@@Lian_lian_04 the shit I learned in college even wasn't relevant to the job I got and I'm making 6 figures now.
It was literally just hoops I had to jump through.
NOTE: This is only the case with the U.S education system.
If you ain't cheating, you aint trying.
I call it, “being resourceful.”
AKA, using google.
Not everything has to be committed to memory. Especially if you have a condition that makes it harder for you.
Oh boy i cant remembed what i ate in school aday ago, how tf could i remember some other language that i cant give a fuck bout
@@SomeCowguy i feel that, that's why I always rely on one thing, my fear of not getting good grades and being a failure
I ain't lyin I'm just lazy bout things I don't like at all
Lol same if you dont know the answer for the questions just use Google or use you book 😂😂
@@SomeCowguy ikr..
I think it's important that we start looking into the 'why' question here... The school system is rotten and awful and not focused on students' well-being.
i couldn't agree more
If the teachers tried to make their lessons even the little bit entertaining I wouldn’t have needed to cheat. They had to audacity to blame us when they didn’t let us take notes using devices as well as not give out any text book work. How can I focus on a person speaking in monotone for a hour with no clear structure: normally teachers follow a textbook and teach according to the structure .
I think another reason is all that pressure from the parents telling the kid that they will punish them if they get a bad grade
@@Fizzy-ty7sg but that’s a issue that stems from society. The better the grade the higher chance of employment after university is the assumption because most of the ‘elites’ in each department are fought over for with high salaries.
Whatever happens there is never a reason to cheat
It's wrong
My PRINCIPAL told my mom: “He can just cheat if he’s feeling lazy.”
They ain’t even trying to hide the fact that they don’t care.
maybe your principal knew that the education system is shit
Its not shit lol
Lmao seems like a cool principal
Prob cus everyone does that
@@connerwine8257 it is
I remember there was this kid in my class who was a straight A student, but he had a question, just this one time and then the teacher comes to him and is just like "Wow I didn't think I'd ever have to help you with this." I could hear in his voice that it made him upset. She really should have kept that to herself.
What a jerk. Should of been like "Sorry for asking you to do your fucking job, my bad."
Gqtor I VERY MUCH did not expect you to be here
@@idonthaveanameyetsothiswil4182 ikr canonically I'm everywhere
@@idonthaveanameyetsothiswil4182 Lol what's up
Gqtor sorry if this bothers you but why'd you stop uploading as much?
As a straight A student in the “gifted” program (which is bullshit by the way), I listen attentively to my classes, do the in class work and labs, but will never go out of my way to reading the textbook again when I’m back at home. When high school started, If there’s homework that’s marked, I search the answers online or just copy from the back of the book. If there’s a test, I study for about an hour the night before, and if I still don’t feel ready, fill in my missing spots with cheating.
It’s just not worth investing the extra time into studying something you genuinely don’t care for and don’t see the applications of in real life. The motivation simply isn’t there. Get the grades, get out and pursue a career that you somewhat like in Uni pretty much. :/
What's the gifted program?
@@vanim1102 education program made for kids that are more “advanced”. There’s a whole test and shit to get in.
It’s no different from a regular academic curriculum, except the smartest kids in the grade are put in the same classes, which usually makes said class advance a lot faster.
@@redred7702 oh ok
@@vanim1102 yeah, basically "dumb kids" can do it too, I have a "dumb" friend and he's in it but he's struggling HARD AF!
Got a C as Korean, big yikes!
But I'm still sliding by with a B+.
As a straight A student and a former math olympiad participant i totally agree its not worth it anymore to me learning React in high school was 100 times better than wasting a second on Shakespeare
Even the argument “cheating only harms yourself” kinda falls flat. Sure, I might get lower test grades, but outside of school cheating won’t matter. You never use 95% the information you learn in school anyways, so cheating won’t harm you much.
Yeah it does lol like what if you're a hacker or steal lol
@@connerwine8257 how in the world did you get "hacking" and "stealing" from a statement about cheating, they literally have 0 things in common, please elaborate, im extremely intrigued.
ehh it honestly depends on the class and your goals. if you wanna be a writer then yeah go ahead and cheat on your math test, but if you're planning on going into psychology and cheat in statistics...be prepared for a world of hurt
Technically it depends on the job you want, but its not like a mechanic or something needs to recite Shakespeare and compose sonnets all day.
@@bluepaper7133 Lmao, on the bright side, the mechanic can practice his patience as learning Shakespeare is as fun as reading a script.
What if the students now are more truthful and thus are admitting to cheating.
That could be a reason, but I think there are clearly other variables at play
technology is likely the main reason
They aren't afraid of getting their butts whooped lol
In the past this would result in pretty harsh punishment
@@gaize1017 wait, whoopings are for punishment?
Well in the past cheating might be alot easier as there were no camera's so right it's just that they were not honest about admitting that they cheated
As a student who’s always done academically well, I cheated a shit ton in my first year of high school. It’s not only about the stress, it’s about taking advantage of the opportunity that I had. I know a lot of people will say that it’s unfair and will affect me, but like I said I’ve always done academically well. I understood all the content, but still felt the need to cheat to make sure everything was perfect. Besides, it helped with stress 🤷🏽♀️
SAME!!
I feel like if you can cheat, you are smart for finding ways to cheat.
Same
I cheated alot this year, not bc i wanted to, i just had like 5 damn exam in one day, i cant revise this fast so yea, lowkey regrets but i did what i did
Same but I still felt really ashamed of myself even when I was just anxious about it not all being perfect llol
Maybe if my teachers didn’t give you a -25 point penalty for being a day late, people would take their time on assignments instead of cheating, googling the answers to finish on time.
Same like my school made me have 5 essays due in 3 to five days and i had to go to other classes help my sister get prepared for the baby because shes staying at our home for now so im already stressed with the arguments of them screaming
@@Articfox_ you got this. also congratulations on the baby lol.
i was frickin late 3 seconds for my assignment and my teacher give me fricking credit points
My teacher makes it a 50 a day late 😭
First of all, deadlines are deadlines for a reason, you would probably thank your teacher sometime in the future
I used to have a middle school teacher who didn’t believe in grades, he never gave us our grades and instead only used a pass or fail system, for big assignments he would give us our grades but would never give our parents our grades. He ended up getting fired half way through the school year bc of this but I honestly believe that his way of teaching was very beneficial
Wished he stayed at your school❤😢
so you'd have pne of the best teachers of the world
Here's my short opinion on this:
One of the many reasons students are cheating is the fact education isn't preparing students for life it's preparing them for tests. So now the objective isn't to study to have a good career, it's so that you get a good grade
ohhh this makes sense
Things the school system doesn’t do well: preserving student’s mental health, prepare students for the real world, keep education at least tolerable, teach students information they’re going to use at least once in their lives outside of school, prevent cheating, motivate students to work hard.
Edit: There are a few trolls in the replies, a few idiots, and a few lucky people that have schools that actually do some of these well. Overall, schools don’t do these things very well, so stop trying to argue with that. And no, mental health was not invented by the government.
school does those things wym?
@@jetdonk3y Where lad in Atlantis?
@@jetdonk3y No it does not. The modern education system doesn’t teach anything and is quite literally a memorization game. If a student didn’t understand something in middle school (For example; something in Algebra) and asks for help from their teacher, the teacher will just say “Look in the book” and not explain anything. This leads to kids not caring about what they don’t understand since they have to worry about the next thing coming up in the following week.
The last test I took in middle and high school where literally memorization tests and a good portion of the questions I had no understanding and still got one of the highest grades in my class.
Modern schools are a joke and need some heavy revision before kids even begin to give an ounce of a shit about it.
Yeah I sometimes cheated on homework because there's so many things that I have to answer on some of them we didn't even learned
@@jetdonk3y dang school checks mental health? That's great to know how some students got so tired of school they started injuring teachers, other students which they also didn't check teachers' mental health as they were smacking students for no reason in my class injuring them enough to not want to come to school again
it's really sad that more kids are cheating today, but that's because everyone has made failure in school seem like such a bad thing. if you genuinely have tried, and fail, you are scolded. we cheat because, for some reason, the education system has forgotten that failure is learning.
Yep, Its like its some sort of last resort for survival, like a prison or so, the more you fail the more you get to be hold back.
Yeah and the amount of work they give is so
Much and when it’s poorly explained most times I don’t have the time to actually sit and learn it 1v1 myself and then also Bc my brain takes longer to process, it’s super hard for me to get it done in time and takes hours for me to do one assignment, like I and others don’t have time for the amount of work they give.
And u cheat because u don’t want to get smacked by parents and y’all at
@@MsRizz100 my math class the last two years 😅 we use this dumb website with poorly worded questions with extra curveballs added that we dont know well enough. The teachers dont help us well either
If they would make lessons fun we would be motivated enough to try even harder, they also should realize people learn at different rates and ways(I’m not saying break it down for each student)
But they should at least take that into account
As a junior in highschool I definitely think it's closer to the 98%, especially since covid, the system really doesn't care about what you actually learn at this point it's about the grades
Mark these words yall
I mean, depends on what is considered cheating.
For example, some Chemistry stuff, students had no idea how to do it even though they literally HAD THE FRICKING INTERNET available to them.
If Google translate is cheating then oof.
Or just google in general.
i did my freshman year completely virtual. you’d be an idiot not to cheat in online class, it’s laughably easy. i’m not sure why those classes even happened to begin with. i can’t think of a single assessment i didn’t cheat on that year like what did anyone get out of that
@@voxeln00bwild
@@labadaba5088it's because chemistry is hard and we got only one lessons per week :) and we need to learn 200 pages book while having only 20/30 lessons of it. Like 3/4 page per fucking lesson, and also we can't learn new stuff on every fucking lessons (exams :)). How the fuck am I supposed to learn chemistry with that? This system really thinks we gonna learn everything at home and they gonna just rate us
Exams don't make you truly learn, they make you memorise
Schools only really care about students getting good grades, not about whether or not you learn the material
True, true, couldn't be any more truer😢
Especially when teachers only give you an A just to give you an A
The world is a game. Play to win.
Cheating is part of the competition and it’s a risk. If you get to harvard from cheating, you’ll still have a better job than all your friends just from the name of the school.
and hopefully that will bring anyone who cheat smartly some good results
basically were getting any help that we could get in order to get through life.
@@garciatempensoniv3700 It's ok stupid people can cheat like you we are*
@@loveuall5571 you am smaert too, don't worry.
Yeah no one cares how you got your degree
I definitely think there’s a lot of factors affecting why and that they’re all related to the failures of our education system. Students are performing better academically than in the past, and a college degree is expected in a lot of professions now, so there’s higher competition combined with higher pressure. Failure isn’t considered a part of learning in school, it’s viewed as a lack of trying/personal flaw. Students are praised more for “being smart” rather than being curious, intuitive, and having a good work ethic, and because of this they feel that their identity as a “smart” kid is threatened if they perform poorly. A lot of my peers who cheated were straight-A students.
that means 1/2.5 people cheat 💀
When I was in elementary I consistently got 1st place from pre-school to 4th grade. Expectations from my parents and teachers were very high (even more so since my sister couldve been the valedictorian in the same school if it werent for a teachers favoritism)
, and so when I failed to get 1st place in 5th grade my confidence and everything else fell down, I believed that I was a failure and that I was letting my parents,friends and teachers down, forcing me to cheat in hopes that I obtain valedictorian in the next grade. Of course I got overwhelmed and my grades and confidence kept going downhill from there.
I have never agreed with a comment so much. It is sad to see students’ intelligence limited to a mere percentage grade.
exactly what I want to say, I don't have the best grades but I know for a damn fact I am very curious and have so many ideas. The second I ask "too many" questions the teachers seem pissed off when I am just trying to understand the topic properly. They think I am not paying attention..I am just a slow learner but once I do learn its over for them mfs
I'm a pretty gifted person academically in the sense that standardized testing comes naturally (I have good memory I guess) but now, in my senior year of high school. I've realized it's just easier to cheat. The only real consequences are "OH No, I don't really know how to solve a sentence long fucking math problem"
It happens to me too, until now I didn't cheat but things are going too far as mental health is concerned so I figure ways to cheat so I don't destroy my brain with studies, and some of my friends take a hole day to learn their lessons and still get pretty mediocre grades. That's because something is failing in the education system so it's so much easier to cheat even for a person like you and me who normally don't need to work hard to get good grades.
Exactly lol
I also retain information very quickly
Almost a straight A student I'm high school and my University exams
But I just couldn't be bothered
I just finished my 400L 1st semester exams and out of 7 courses. I only read for 1 course for 2+ days
All the rest were the night prior to exams
Mostly because I knew how unrewarding it was to read the whole note for 3 months and then see questions you weren't even taught
Just cheat and giraffe to refresh your memory or rip off completely
The only semester I was partially serious, I got a 4.6
But furck school
@@william_SMMA yeah
And the solution is just to search how to solve it lol
That's the deal, you need to cheat on the useless stuff, stuff you are planning to use in the future you need to learn for real, or else no one's gonna want you
-75% cheating, 25% not cheating-
75% admitting, 25% lying
Im not gonna spend hours remembering biology when i want to became a office worker
I'm not gonna remember all the damn geometry crap when I become a lawyer, honestly some of the classes we HAVE to take just make. no sense.
I mean after quarantine I’m pretty sure even teachers are cheating 😩
Lmfao
😂
@Stars Tea ugh I hate when teachers do that. I had a science teacher who never did anything except put a PowerPoint for us to take notes on, s PowerPoint she didn’t even make. She would just sit there and click the button every once in awhile to change the slide.
**clears throat**
*If students that are doing well in school feel pressured to cheat, and students are happy that a literal deadly virus closed schools that their parents pay thousands for, schools should probably rethink some shit*
It doesn't matter if people die
@@Krish.Sookrajpsychopath
As a student that has always been one of the best in my class, I admit since quarantine started I have cheated like never before. Sometimes I feel really disappointed in myself but other times, it is so much pressure that i feel like i have to do it.
Me too, I think NO ONE should put pressure on ANYONE
Here's the problem: In almost all subjects (but especially math so that will be my example), teachers will press into your brain that 2+2=4. But when it's time for the test, the questions are 1/16(-127x - 335) - 4^48
Then when you get the questions wrong, they don't tell you how you can fix it. They just take off points and expect you to know what you did. This can greatly affect your grade, which affects everything else you will do in life. It affects the next school you will go to, if you will even pass the school year, which collages will accept you, and thus what job you are able to get. One or two classes can be the difference in a student who gets minimum wage and a student who makes thousands. Teachers need to do a better job of explaining and teaching what the tests require.
am i lucky for my parents having a good paying job that will be transfered to me when I grow up?
@@supertheblueoctagon very lucky
@@supertheblueoctagon privileged
@@supertheblueoctagon Don't take it for granted, make sure you take classes that focus around that and ask your parents for as much advice as possible
If you aint cheating you aint trying
While I am not arguing that the number has gone up, I feel like there is something to be said for the fact that you are asking people at different times. Put it this way: if you, a hypothetical 20 year old with your first good job, are approached by a scientist asking you to answer the question "did you cheat I high-school?" with the promise of total anonymity, then you are probably going to admit that, yes, you did. However, if the same hypothetical 20 year old was asked the same question in 1940, they may have a very different answer. The consequences are so different. If your boss finds out now, you get a slap on the wrist. Back then, perhaps you would be fired.
This is like saying that the rate of couples cheating on their SO's has gone up since 1940. Yes, it definitely has, but it's really difficult to gage how much because the consequences are so very different for the same action, that many people may have just lied back then to save their own skins.
Well said
@One eyed ferret with mange again, not arguing that the number has gone up, just that there are a heck of a lot of factors going into this
@Stars Tea yeah that is very true and is probably why the number has gone up
Right now, the education system values your grades than your understanding which is why students are cheating to get high grades
Or, you can be me and study all day long with no social life to get A's in class
I think the lessons have become harder and harder as well and we have 11 subjects every single day. I remember my mom looking at my notes and she was like *What? These lessons were taught like when we were in college.* I was in 7th grade at that time. Or maybe it's just our teachers lol
I’m in honors geo for freshman year of highschool and honestly, the lessons are kind of easy. It’s just the fact that my teacher sucks at teaching us. We just came from middle school, online quarantine school, and A/B schedule (we had A & B days to separate our 8 periods of school but not the point). It’s hard to get used to because everyone was so refreshed when having online school because everything was less stressful. And also, my teacher just gives us a slideshow for us to copy down on a lined piece of paper. The notes aren’t even actual notes because there’s no context other than random answers pasted onto some random piece of paper. It’s also the fact that we get a new lesson every single school day, we get no classwork on the previous lesson, which means we don’t really get any practice. The harder classes such as Algebra II honors ACTUALLY get classwork, and we don’t. We get homework for sure, but the homework doesn’t even correlate to what we learned NOR what is on the quiz. The questions on the homework is hard and confusing. I talked to a lot of my friends in honors geo and they say they’re failing. The subject isn’t even that hard either, my teacher just doesn’t give a fuck about how he’s making us learn. Nobody wants to speak up though.
Yeah my entire table in bio cheats together and theres a dude in math who just uses photomath when the teacher isnt looking
When the education system is focused more on grades than comprehension. Yup, id cheat too.
Me too 😂
I had really good grades in high school but my memorization skills are pretty bad. My history teacher used to quiz us on things like the names and locations of all the lakes in Puerto Rico. I’ll be the first to admit that after the first one of these ridiculous quizzes I just started cheating on them. Sat next to the valedictorian and copied her answers. Pretty sure my history teacher knew too and just never called me out on it cause I was a good student otherwise.
I mean, it aint your fault. Why would you possibly need to learn the lakes in puerto rico?
@@zeppelin6125 Exactly
@@zeppelin6125 Jimmy is stuck on a lake in Puerto Rico. His coordinates are N (Number), W (Number). What lake is Jimmy in?
Haha 😂 because I live there.
@@iforgor5167 it’s was more like here’s a map of the island mark an x where the lake is and write the name
I had all A’s always until Highschool. I got my first B and it destroyed my self esteem. Unfortunately my parents placed my entire value in how “smart” I was and my mom of course was upset to see I got a B. I cheated every chance I got in Highschool even when I knew the answer. Before I got to college anything less than a 98% might as well have been an F.
I feel bad for Highschool students now if the stakes have gotten higher. Because one girl in my grade level had a brain aneurysm, from stress.
my parents make it more stressful for me to be honest
if they didn't get mad at me and take away my stuff when I got b's or even just one missing assignment then I would feel a little better
@@asshunnngami pretty true
I got plenty of Fs in middle and high school but I was a straight As student in elementary school. I just started cheating enough to get the passing grade.
@@izzyusagi Pls how hard is high school 😭
@@Yamil1289 hey it’s not that bad it’s the mental health and body changes that make it hell
I went to an early college high school. They only accepted 100 students per year and the admissions process was hard. My class (c/o 2012) were the very first 9-12 graders at the school. We had to juggle high school and actual college classes at the same time. It wasn’t necessarily ‘hard’ but we were all expected to overachieve. We cheated and helped each other a lot! By the time my class graduated we only had 60 students. The others left because they couldn’t take the pressure. I remember in chemistry we finished the entire text book ahead of the district. Several of our teachers were more than just people who majored in a subject and decided to become a teacher. They were actual heavyweights in their fields. Some of them even helped write the textbooks. It was stressful sometimes but I appreciate my education. Especially when I see people learning not even a fraction of what I got to learn.
What highschool
I can count all the times I’ve cheated on both of my hands
Cheating is the most useful skill school teaches you
Used to cheat a lot too even tho I was already getting A's and B's everywhere after grade 10. I just liked having the answers if I ever forgot them in a test or the test was just about memorising.
Shit i don't cheat and my gpa is high but i still think cheating rn is understandable. Well the problem is that school doesn't seem to think that failure is part of learning. Why couldn't they allow multiple retakes of quizes? There are times where I just want to read books and understand the concept or equation, but the problem is that there are quizes of thet lessons that are due the next 3 days, so in the end, I only skim through the book, and ended up not grasping the whole concept, I still scored high but where tf is learning in that. I had this one friend who is really behind on concepts and stuff. We are already in college but he still has a hard time solving basic calculus and algebra. I asked him about this stuff, and apparently their high school didn't teach them shit. He was a good classmate, eager to learn, when I teach him. And the problematic thing is that the school doesn't seem to care abt these ppl. It was scary thinking about it in his shoes, how he must have felt left out. Yea so therefore school is shit, I would still encourage you to go to school, but it doesn't change the fact that school is shit.
I understand ur friend. When I had started high school last year, we were learning algebra. The problem is, my middle school never taught me ANY of that, leading to be being behind and the math teacher never pointed me in the direction to get help. Hopefully now I can learn as a 10th grader, and I've heard good things about my new math teacher. Best of luck to all of you.
That's so true. I never promoted cheating and I have never done it by myself and yet has scored pretty high scores. And I totally relate to you! I have experienced that shit when you just have to got through the damn book just to get good scores and despite knowing what you want to read and what you want to explore more, you are forced to "excel" in everything by school.
Multiple retakes for quizzes SHOULD be a thing! Sometimes you are just not confident enough (or maybe you ended up scrolling deep through a sub topic you really enjoyed and forgot to read the rest thing, like me lol), retaking quizzes actually help me in building self confidence. Idk education system and schools are just shit. The only thing I like is that it makes you disciplined and keeps you in a routine. Other wise, it's meh.
I agree. Schools too focused on memorization. They don't really care about the actual learning experience of the students. We really need to change the System. It's still happening almost everywhere in almost every country on earth.
@@wedoliveinasocietydowenot I'm in the exact same situation, my old middle school was literally the worst teachers didn't care. and the exam was literally just testing memory 🙃 I'd ask the top student to explain something to me and he'd just state the same statement that is in the book. It also didn't help that the teachers were speaking a different language for most of the classes. Now in 10th grade, I'm lagging behind with math and physics just because they didn't help me with the basics. So now I have this incredible pressure on me to catch up and even surpass my classmates because of my parents' expectations. But oh well here I am. Good luck 👍
I'm kinda the same. I never cheated and still got high scores because my short term memory retention is pretty decent. Of course, after I'm done with answering the questions, I just forget all about it unless I really want to learn the concept. However, I will admit that ever since the start to online classes, I started cheating. I really can't help it. As much as I want to actually learn and answered honestly, I just have no time. For example, I have 28 units this semester, 9 subjects and 1 synchronous classes per subject every week. Meaning, we are only given an hour per week to be taught lessons. If they don't finished the discussion in an hour then we would have to learn it by ourselves then the next week, we will proceed with a new lesson. Now, I'm fine with self study. The thing though is the activities. There were at least 8 activities per subjects that is needed to be submitted every Saturday, midnight. And since, I am living with my parents, of course my day just now consist of me sitting in front of my laptop and doing school work. I still have to do chores. When exactly, do I have the time to study? Then there is the pressure to produce good results. To be honest, my mental health just went crashing down because of online classes.
As my great research teacher taught me
Regular kids: suck at cheating
Honors kids: decent at cheating
AP Kids: insanely good at cheating
That’s right boys. Y’all will never catch me.
Literally everyone on your list is atleast decent at cheating
Step 1.) Get bad eyes
Step 2.) Get glasses
Step 3.) Get two microfiber cloths to clean the glasses
Step 4.) Right the answers on one and look at them during the test. If anyone asks pull out the one without writing
What does AP mean?
Im not American..
i mean that's the only way to survive highschool
here's a thought though- what if this generation is just more open to admitting to cheating?
Who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There's even a word for it, but I forgot what it was
@@IceCream-ey2kg more honest I guess
Thats a good thing
@Echolas punishments, reputation, etc etc
Not related to the subject of cheating, but this video reminded me of the time I was talking about state tests to my mom. She informed me that even a lot of teachers are on board with just doing away with them. The reason is that bright students may not perform well under pressure/time limit. Big state tests do more harm than good imo
I agree I am one of those students that get poorer grades under stress
@@blahajenthusiast101 everyone does. Doing well under stress and very big pressure can be counted as a superpower nowadays
I mean, if a student manages to cheat without being noticed by a strict teacher on watch. I would give that student a medal for discovering a way that, that school should prevent.
I never cheated in high school, but in college, I chose to cheat in unimportant subjects that I need to pass, but in subjects that I can really learn a lot from and I need to master, I never cheat.
I soo fuckin agree with this, I'm in 12th Grade and I dare not to cheat on subjects that I really need to learn from, that would be general biology and physics. I feel like other subjects are just time consuming, I tend to cheat on those subs to lessen the time and pass my tasks asap, though if I were to have enough spare time I'd give it full attention and learn.
@@glaucous3215 True. Sometimes the school system can be oppressive for making us learn things we don't need. It doesn't make you bad. You just need to do certain things to stay afloat and survive considering the time you have. Life isn't all about studying after all. You also need some time to play. Just make sure you aren't caught. Hahaha.
I already know my senior quote.
“If google doesn’t know it, you don’t need to know it”
The stress put on students is way too much. It’s not good for you
I think the real issue is teachers (or the school they work in) reusing the same test over and over again.
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It’s almost weird to not cheat in anything at this point
true
Its impossible to not be cheating when the tests are literally so fvcking hard
@@Jaxbo782 My motivation hasnt joined the game for a while so umm
i cheat on every math test💀
At this point, you need good memory, which I don’t have, to pass school. One of my friends who has good memory tells me that he doesn’t study and gets good grades but I have to at least study for a long time to at least understand or remember something simple and I barely get good grades
In my experience the regular kids tried to cheat, the advanced kids were good at cheating and the AP kids excelled at cheating.
Because the education system and society judges students based on the grades than on the knowledge they acquire!!
Also my school punishes everyone, not just the cheaters themselves so even though I myself do not cheat, it’s very tempting to because I’m receiving the same treatment as cheaters. Like on a physics test some kids that had a different teacher cheated during the test, so the entire physics department just made every test after that much harder and over concepts they didn’t cover in class
Either they are cheating more or they are more sincere. 💀
The fact is now you have to get good grades in EVERYTHING, Back then a student could only study say physics if he was good at physics but now the system is so bad that the people who are better at languages are getting into sciences because they have insane social pressure
Some say its dumb but the fact that a lot of student actually cheated without getting caught is actually pretty smart on its own. I mean I gotta be honest with you I cheated a lot of times in my exams, and not a single teacher noticed it.
This just show how bad the system is, its that bad the student resort in to cheating just to get a high grade.
I had a highschool teacher that encouraged us to use our creativity to cheat. He was very observative, and said that if you could pass through his watch, you deserved to cheat.
@@zeta1593 wow, i also had that kind of teacher too. He told us not to bombare our brains with information that we don't understand. Instead, just go cheat. Ever watch Bad Genius movie? Pretty much that's how we try to cheat
@@zeta1593 damn at least there are some teachers who know how wacky the education system is and lets their student cheat instead of letting their students' brain rot every exam
@@randooo22 yeah, but he was my french (my main langage) and philosophy teacher, so you can't really cheat at an essay (he let us to take it at home and even auto-correct) or at a text explanation
@@zeta1593 👀👀 ohh I see
ADMITTING to cheating, what if most are still hiding it in scars they’d have to redo test or something?
They REALLY should focus more on the student's mental health
That's dam true
You’re god damn right
@One eyed ferret with mange Okay, but that doesn't mean its right
@One eyed ferret with mangeYou’re right, school isn’t a therapy session. It’s the problem. 🤦♀️
@One eyed ferret with mange
You just made me reflect on my life
This is why i love online class lmao
All they want is a good number for something we do not use, cheating is something to study too...
I cheated my way through 7 ap classes throughout high school . I would get information about the tests for all of the ap classes I had later in the day by trading the knowledge of the tests for ap classes that were earlier in the day for me. Also the teachers not changing the exams yearly and having upper classman friends who gave me their old exams helped too. On the ap tests I did fine, got 5s on all of them except for a 4 on ap chem.
If everyone is cheating, no one is
Yes they are the definition does not change
@@nhthuanduc exactly
And I dont cheat
The most effective way to cheat is said to do it boldly, which's like the student in the first seat in front of the platform is hardest to see.
can confirm i sit in the smack middle front, they look at the back and ignore me just googling shit lmao
Cheating rates have skyrocketed as pressure and exams
Just because 98% admitted to cheating doesn’t mean the other 2% aren’t lying 😂
In real life, you have to take advantage of the tools and resources at your disposal. If a teacher arbitrarily decides that's cheating, they're not doing their job which is supposed to be to prepare students for life in the real world. That's what my chemistry professor in college said when he explained to me why he wasn't gonna fail me for programming my calculator "illegally".
wait what, what tool did you use to program your calculator, I need this in life.
@@PerciseGunplay ndless. It's a custom software package for the ti n-spire. You can install a .pdf reader. I uploaded the chapters of my chem textbook that we covered, bookmarked the pages that were relevant and could ctrl + f for any eq's I needed but couldn't remember. He argued that since he allowed any calculator on the test and never specified anything about notes on the calculator, and since I only brought supplies I was allowed to bring, I wasn't breaking any rules he had established. He did change the syllabus the next term though.
The rabbit-hole for programming ti n-spires is basically bottomless. I have the CAS version so I also set it up to turn CAS on and off depending on if it was legal for an exam or not. Or just to make it look like CAS was off. but most of the calculus I do at this point, even though it's easier with CAS, is almost more work to program into a calculator than to just run it on paper. Especially since I often need to do step-by-step proofs for assignments I turn in.
@@Andernol thanks bro I needed that!
@@PerciseGunplayyou can store notes in programs and some apps like the periodic table app could help in tests. If your teacher makes you clear your calculator, you can archive the notes program so that clearing ram doesn't erase it
@@TheObamaGaming the thing is, most globally respected tests or certificates require the candidate to use specific calculators - like how tf am i meant to code a fucking snake game in a casio calculator built like a brick.
I think there’s a disconnect between what cheating is. I’ve used resources I wasn’t supposed to on homeworks or even some take home quiz grades/online assignments, but never gone out of my way to cheat during an exam. If someone asked me have I ever cheated in school, I’d say yes, but I’d say there’s a clear difference from someone who cheats instead of studying.
Having a cheat sheet or just using internet for exams should be allowed, knowing where to find the sources to know an answer is way more valuable than just memorizing a fact or a formula
This^
Knowing how to use our resources for information is much more reliable and sensible then trying to use our heads. No one is capable remembering everything (unless they have that one rare condition that makes it impossible for them to forget, but that's not very many people)
@@CyanPotato yes, when you’re an adult, you;ll need to use information for resources a lot, especially for a lot of jobs
@@danielwang7472 ok but whats stopping us from just googling those things? even my mom has to google stuff that she knows already because people will eventually forget that stuff
It feels like their giving us even more than triple than what they would give us in face to face, It's like the school thinks since we use our computers more commonly now they think we can finish assignments just as fast as one
interesting that i understand the lesson better when i was cheating at tests than my teacher explaining the lessons
Like the Naruto written exams....those who efficiently cheat without teacher noticing have the skill to be a ninja!!!
I feel like if students just were allowed to get more sleep in then we wouldn't be having as much of a cheating issue.
Hey man…like my middle coach said with a straight face..
“If you ain’t cheatin, you ain’t tryin boah. Bein a cheater in life proves you know what you want. It’s called workin around the system, and takin advantage of the opportunity.”
And that is a real quote.. but personally I don’t cheat..THAT MUCH…but yeah.
I call it “if your not fighting dirty you’re not really fighting”
The difference may also be that people are being way more honest now when compared to the earlier students.
I’m one of the smartest kids in my class, and I don’t cheat, but the pressure seriously is unbearable. When getting your results back, you can feel everyone expecting you to get one of/the best grade in the class.
This means when I don’t pass or only just pass, I feel self conscious, I doubt my ability and I am severely ashamed.
Next time you see a smart person, don’t just think of them as a brain. We have feelings too.
Not so smart then if you fail lmao
same, now replace the everyone with parents and the feel self conscious with a get belt'd
@@fazewalmart387 he said smartest, not smart. Smartass
Not even highschooler but college student doing too
if your not cheating your not trying 💀💀💀
Yeh it's true our topper gang just takes our marks to another level just by helping each other in exam and we crush others clases result 😆 🤣
if homework and formative assessments count, then I definitely copied whole pages of computations and shared answers with the whole class. I never really did find a convenient way to cheat quizzes and exams where the testers watch you like a hawk, always felt like cheating here is not worth the risk of getting a 0.
Can Confirm I cheated throughout all of high school. Got into a decent college and bless them for not making the SAT mandatory. Made high school so much easier since I rarely studied. Fake it till you make it 😂
Bruhhh i graduated high school in 2019. It's safe to say that all of my classmates are liars. (Im in special edu class, meaning a class solely for high grade student) We were all aware that we snitch notes in the test room. However, no one is going to say anything. Why? Cuz the majority of the teachers at my school are still stuck in the past. You didn't pass the exam? Prepare to be embarrassed because they'll pick on you even if it's not their issue.
I actually cheated in this English language test once and it helped me understand how to answer the specific style of question that my teachers didn't really go through. When it came to the real test I went from a B to an A* without cheating. Yeh obviously cheating is bad but guess it helps sometimes lol.
I kinda started questioning the education system once I got older bc the stuff they were teaching and their methods were questionable. I hate how everyone is like "If you study hard and get A's you'll have a successful life!!!".
This is going to be long, and these are only my thought but to anyone whos reading this:
Good grades are inferior to passions, dreams, and that will to never stop learning (not school stuff in general). Many people who have changed the world (like Einstein) didn't do well at all in school. I'm not saying that school subjects are bad, but don't blindly believe that school will lead you to a successful life, you lead yourself to a successful life.
I'm tried of seeing people cry and get devastated over the fact they don't get A's. Shouldn't we question the thing that we put our futures in?
Also, this is coming from a B-A student, so this isn't just because I don't get good grades.
As Einstein once said:
"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."
Good luck everyone! Remember that this is only my opinion and you shouldn't change your entire way of thinking. Just give it a thought for yourself :)
Now I understand why I did so poorly in high school. I'm an honest guy
And remember they admitted. Some of them didn't so the numbers are higher
Imagine having enough balls to admit to cheating while attending Harvard
How are we supposed not to cheat when the teachers give us a radically different topic than what they taught us/told us that the test will contain.
My Physics teacher told us that the exam will be about radioactivity. She gave us 10 lessons behind radioactivity, thus I studied for nothing.
This happens every single time! Its frustrating because you actually prepare for the test with the intention to pass and when they give you questions no where related to what they taught its just ://
Or when they give you a harder version of the topic that you probably didn’t went through in class. Example: you went through what’s 2/4 x 4/8 in class and during the tests it’ll be something like 3x + 4y/2x + 8x-5y/2x (I’m using an elementary example because I can’t think of a better one atm)
FR this doesnt happen all the time but when it does I get mad and lose motivation to learn
@@sweetchoerrylove1408 my geometry class was the opposite! Hard reviews, baby tests😅
I always got above 90 on tests, usually 100
NO BC my ap chinese 4 teacher gave us THREE ASSESSMENTS in ONE week. i had to memorize how to recite an entire paragraph on monday, right?? oh no. i also had to take a test over 39 vocab words, grammar, reading/listening comprehension, and writing. and THEN had to memorize how to write the same paragraph from monday on friday. sure she gave us an entire week to do all three things, BUT I HAVE OTHER CLASSES. it’s so bogus
At this point of life they have a right to cheat because of this unfair bullcrap
This is why school is worse than prison
As someone who performed well in highschool, I never cheated but I was tempted to for the exact reason stated, I felt like I needed to do well becausei felt it was expected of me and that I would be lazy or not good enough or not actually trying if I didn't do well, I always got super anxious over tests