Cheating in the Final Exams
Final exams started last week. Maybe because of the difficulty of the exams or the pressure to excel, a few people cheat. Here are a few of their usual methods:
1. Exams at the law school last for hours. The shortest is around 2 hours and I've heard about some people taking 5 hour exams. So professors and proctors usually allow students to go to the restroom. Some students leave a codal or a reviewer in the restroom so they can take a look at it during the exam.
2. This is a variation of number 1. Pretend you need to go to the restroom, once there pull out your cellphone and call somebody and ask him what the answers are. Your best bet is to call someone who practices in the field that your exam covers (i.e. call a criminal lawyer during your crim 2 exam), assuming that you know someone in the field. Or call someone who just took the bar, the doctrines will still be pretty fresh on their minds. Or call a trusted friend who's an upperclassman. Or if you have a fraternity, call your so called brothers.
3. Pay off whoever photocopies the exam. This is common practice in other law schools (but I haven't heard of this happening in UP Law, not recently anyway). I don't recommend actually trying it with the staff at the OCS or the Dean's office. In my opinion, your best chance would be to hope that the exam is photocopied somewhere else (i.e. Blessings or SC) and pay off the person manning the machine to make an extra copy. It's a long shot though.
4. Approach the staff or student assistant of your professor. I've heard talk that sometimes the professor has the student assistant write the exam (???).
Disclaimer: I don't cheat. But I don't think poorly of the people who do just because they cheat per se. I think poorly of those people who can't be more creative in how they cheat. If you're going to cheat do it in a way that shows off your skills. Otherwise, just study. The only reason I don't cheat is because I can't think of a way to do it that would make me proud to say I cheated.
posted by lawintheblandmanner @ 2:55 AM
3 Comments:
Remember though that cheaters are the exception. The great majority of UP law students simply study very hard, with a steady intensity they never contemplated before entering the institution.
dami cheaters sa law school especially among girls, sa block ko grabe cheating nila sa final exams, broad daylight, no remorse, they're not even apologetic about it, you can sense that they have no conscience about it,there's no indication that they think that what they're doing is wrong. we had a classmate who was from a senior batch, he told us na sya pa daw nahiya when my girl blockmates were cheating in plain sight just beside him. now they are enjoying the fruits of their cheating with their high salaried jobs at big law firms, enjoy your life my cheattin blockmates from b2006.
usually the cheaters are the ones in the top of the class. that goes for my block & batch anyway. those pursuing high grades are the ones more likely to cheat for obvious reasons. i think up should just scrap its grading system, just adopt pass or fail system, so grades dont matter.
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