Is Cheating Always Wrong Essay

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    did wrong. Then you remember what you did, you paid someone to take your SAT. You would never imagine that cheating would get you into this, you would think it was something that happened and nobody ever found out. Well this is exactly what happened to seven students from New York attending Long Island Great Neck North High School. They were arrested for paying Sam Eshaghoff , an alumni, between $1,500 and $2,500 to take the SAT for them. This straightaway is an extreme example of a cheating and

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    interview with CBS titled “The Perfect Score: Cheating on the SAT” it describes, “Over the course of nearly three years, he took the SAT over and over again, consistently scoring in the 97th percentile or higher for the students that he called his “clients”” (2). Eshaghoff simply printed out fake ID’s and took the test. Questions and worries will come about the system considering how easy it was for him to cheat. Some might believe that there is nothing wrong with what Eshaghoff did as he was helping

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    would suffer significantly. If I slid my answers closer to him, I would take the risk of both of us being caught for cheating. If I didn’t do anything at all, I wouldn’t be affected, but he would be tested on my knowledge rather than his own. There are many reasons that cause students to cheat, but there are also problems either now or later in life that can and will affect them. Cheating is more common in schools than teachers think. When students have an easier way of doing something, why would they

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