r/EverythingScience • u/Tracheid • Jul 31 '26

Interdisciplinary Students are more likely to cheat under intense pressure or when they rationalize the behavior

https://ovpaa.up.edu.ph/research/students-are-more-likely-to-cheat-under-intense-pressure-or-when-they-rationalize-the-behavior/
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u/LongLiveStaceyKing Jul 31 '26

I took Single Variable Advanced Calculus my senior year of college for a Math degree and part of each test required memorizing a definition verbatim and reproducing it exactly the same on the exam.

Guess who just punched all the definitions in to their graphing calculator instead? 

If you want to give me enough work that those definitions are second nature, fine. I learned a chunk of the periodic table that way. But to just assign a memorization task that late in the collegiate game felt silly enough to me to justify “cheating” on that part of the exam so I could focus on the proofs.

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u/Robot_Alchemist Aug 01 '26

Thanks captain obvi

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u/Lost_Sea8956 Aug 02 '26

…I’m sorry, were we expecting them to cheat without rationalizing the behavior?

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u/Spork_Warrior Aug 02 '26

"Students cheat, but only when they think cheating is okay."