Cause And Effect Essay: The Various Forms Of Cheating

Cheating is a break of a rule or a law by acting dishonestly and unfairly to gain an advantage. It occurs in various forms, physical, emotional, and many more. Therefore, cheating in the educational field between students is the most common form at any level of education. in school, college, and even university students.

There are many shapes and forms of cheating, generally, it is when you use another person's work and pass it off as yours. For example, it is cheating when a student copies answers from another student's test paper or a classmate's homework, whether they copy it, summarize it, or rephrase it, it does not alter the fact that they cheated. No matter how it is done the rules are the same. Experts agree that students who cheat are wasting their time in school since most learning builds on itself, and when they win a job because of their grade on a subject that is supposed to show their

abilities that in fact does not exist in reality. However, knowing that, some students continue on cheating mainly because of campus ethos, lack of effort, external pressure.

Firstly, and the most effective cause is the campus ethos that doesn't give an affective punishment to those who are cheating, which leads students to think that it is ok to cheat since everyone does it and get away with it, so they can do it as well Instead of spending hours studying, solving, working for a subject. Manal was one of my high school classmates she never did her homework at home she thinks it is a waste of time when she can come to school and simply copy it from another friend, she used to tell me "no one will notice and even if they did they will not do anything about it". Surprisingly she wasn't the only one, I used to go to an after school academy and I have met people like her as well I saw them quietly exchanging pieces of paper during the test period their excuse was "everyone does it so it is ok" that shows how effective it is when there is a law but everyone breaks it and not get punished for it.

Secondly, and the prevalent cause is some students lack of effort and work for the subject.

some categorize them as the lazy students, they never show up to class do not know about any home works or projects, and they do not study as well, which is obvious because they do not know or understand the material included in the test so cheating is a way for them to get free grades without any effort. Just like my brother Abdulaziz he is what everyone calls a lazy student he rarely goes to school and asks his friends to do his homework and when it is test time he sits next to the smart kid and simply copies his answers. Moreover, I have watched a documentary about those kind of students and noticed that they are everywhere and that it is not an abnormal thing. What blew my mind was a case they showed of a group of four girls in highschool that divides the work between themselves. for example, if there is a test coming in 4 chapter each one of them will study one chapter and they will sit next to each other to copy answers for each chapter. Smart but still counts as

cheating.